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Top Notch Shearing
“Careful–I’m pregnant!”
Constant Readers know that each spring, we shed lamb about 350 ewes. We raise our own bucks, Hampshire and Rambouillet, and their mothers lamb early, before the main lambing in May and June.This year, the lambs will start to come around April 1st. Lambing goes a lot better if the ewes are shorn ahead of time. A few days ago Rindy Harkness, proprietor, crew boss and shearer of Top Notch Shearing, showed up with her crew and turned out 380 sheep in six hours.
blackfaced ewes waiting to be shorn
up the chute and into the portable shearing shed
Meghan, Antonio and Yonush keeping them moving
Filo with the paddle
into the shed: Nene, Meghan and Antonio
the shorn and the unshorn
guard dog mother and son
Rindy Harkness, proprietor
Top Notch Shearing
Ladder Ranch
