Alpaca Shearing Day 2010
Right on the tail of PAOBA Breeder’s Showcase 2010 we had shearing day. We again went to Paso Ligero for shearing. Kim from Paso Ligero is wonderful. Since we don’t have a trailer she again this year came and got all of our animals and transported them to her place for shearing. We couldn’t ask for a better neighbor.
It was a long day. We started shortly after 7:00 AM since we had almost 50 alpacas to shear and the guys doing the shearing were going to another neighboring farm to shear after we were done. Ian from Big Mount Alpacas had enough animals at his farm this year to have them coming there, instead of him bringing all his alpacas to Kim’s place.
We got lots of great fiber off some wonderful animals. The shearers did a good job again this year. I don’t think I’ve seen him yet knick an animal. I can’t say that for myself, I hit some blood on a couple toenails, but not many.
We now have 12 more blankets and 12 more seconds bags of wonderful alpaca fiber here to work with. If you are interested we could still use some more hand spinners for spinning the fiber.
All of our short cuts, leg fiber and other waste is being sent to help clean up the oil spill in the Gulf. Isn’t alpaca fiber wonderful!
Alpaca shearing
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