Shearing day 2010

So shearing day finally arrived. I anticipate this day with trepidation and excitement. Excited because I spend all day at the barn with my alpacas and because  it's a sort of herd health day too as we do toenails and check out their skin underneath all that fleece. The trepidation comes from the fact that it's labor intensive and the alpacas absolutely hate it. There are wonderful farms that like to make it a PR event but I just can't do that since I know that will stress the animals out even more with more noise and strangers. So anyway, we're done, it's the next day and of course there's no sunshine and it's chilly. I did put a coat on my smallest guy Pender. So here are the pictures. If you check yesterday's blog you'll see the befores. The first & second pics are of my first girl Lady. Don't her eyes look like she's terrified? She actually wimpers. The 3rd pic is my youngest baby Pender. It's his first time. The 4th is our man Skye. He's very laid back. The 5th one is my 'crankee yankee' Mikey. He's always the first and always has a funny look on his face afterwards.  The 6th pic is of 3 of the boys, Mikey,Tripper, and Skye checking out the girls all done up! The next one, the 7th, is too funny. It looks like Tripper is laughing at Concord's new doo! The last 2 are the girls and 2 babies all done! They all look so much younger huh? Wish that was the same for us humans!!