Yesterday was shearing day at McDermit Ranch!
A HUGE THANK YOU to our family for your help and hard work! Logan, Nolan & Sarah, Carson & Rebecca, and grandkids Brooklyn, Tyrell, Taylen and Hunter made it the most fun, enjoyable shearing day in 29 years!!! Missed little Cooper – maybe next year.
Also, thanks to the hardworking shearers – Lorrie Reed, Laverne Struck and Dave Hunter. I don’t know how you guys do it day in and day out!! Between the 4 shearers (including Logan) they did 345 ewes and 9 rams in less than 8 hours!
The weather co-operated with a nice, sunny, calm day. However, overnight we we got about 1/4″ of snow but it didn’t get colder than -4C so the sheep were fine.
(Click on the photos to see them fully)
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- Tyrell (4) running the hydraulic wool packer.
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- Logan shearing a ewe lamb.
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- Sarah taking a turn filling the catch chute.
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- Left to right: Dave, Logan, Laverne, Lorrie.
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- Nolan running the hydraulic wool packer while Rebecca manually packs the bellies and pieces in the bag. You can’t see him, but Tyrell was in the bag too, and you should have heard the giggling!
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- Carson filling the catch chute with ewes.
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- Brooklyn (4) picking up bellies and pieces.
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- Rebecca with 2 of her 3 cute kids, Taylen (2) & Hunter (1).
