Thursday, September 30, 2010

Snapshot before shearing

Snapshot was a bottle kid so it was easy to pick her first to shear out of the yearlings, since she is always under my feet. Blaze, her mother decided to stop eating about 5 days after her kids were born last spring, so her milk started drying up, I put her twins on bottles of goat milk from Tanner, after about a week Blaze started slowly eating and recovered. Sometimes having twins and triplets just takes too much out of the mother, even if she is fed well. Snapshot's fleece was a soft long lock about 6" long with an inch of blonde tip, but the other five inches are chocolate brown. Blaze has always been one of my favorite fleeces for spinning yarn for my shawls and now that she is getting older and retired, Snapshot can provide the mohair I need.

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