🐑SHEEP SHEARING OPEN HOUSE EVENT

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14th Time: 10am - 4pm

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No charge. You’ll be inside our newly renovated Ladybug Cottage (no need to worry about the weather) tables and chairs provided

Fall is our favorite season, cooler days, trees changing colors and that little urge to sleep in a few more minutes until the sun lights up our farm. The season of watering and harvesting hay is over and Fall’s magic takes over. It’s breeding season for the girls; their lambs have thrived from grazing on the lush pasture & their mother’s milk and it is time to move forward to start the next generation. Our sheep are English breeds, Dorset and Suffolk (just like the counties in England). They have been bred for centuries for their dual purpose, producing wool for warmth and lamb to nourish the family. Now is the time for us to harvest the wool by shearing them before breeding season. We often get asked why we choose to shear in the fall. Part of it is tradition and the other reason it’s for the girls and their lambs. It helps the ewe when they begin lambing in the Spring in many ways. The ewe and lamb have a much easier time bonding with less wool, Also, it helps prevent accidental crushing of the lamb that can happen when a ewe has a full thick fleece and can’t feel her lamb when she snuggles with them. Breeding season begins after we shear, It doesn’t take long for their fleece to grow and the lanolin to come back to repel the rain and snow and create their own winter blanket.