Re: Rest Day

From: Viktor Haag <vhaag_at_...>
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 11:13:08 -0400

Robert Darvall writes:
> > John -- when do you shear down under? When's your lambing
> > season?
>
> Victor,
> Dunno if John replied or if this is too late to be relevant
> (server problems) but lambing is roughly july to nov (winter
> to mid spring). I believe this is a plot by the sheep to make
> sure we're kept as miserable as possible. Shearing is early
> summer Dec into jan.

That makes sense; up here, lambing is late February through to early April, and shearing is September/October.

My dad doesn't shear any more; he did for a while, but then the shearing/transporting costs for his small heard outstripped the money he would get for the wool. Shearing in this neck of the woods is not really something a hobby-farmer can do, unless s/he does it him/erself. (We never sheared ourselves alone; we always used the services of a roving, professional shearer, but I believe that my dad assisted -- in which he discovered that he didn't really have the best touch at the task 8).)

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