I wanted to get a few pics of the alpacas and sheep before they all get sheared on the 20th. It was kind of shocking to look at these pictures of them because they don’t seem so incredibly fluffy to me in person, but I guess they really are that fluffy! This is what they looked like a couple days after we brought them home (early july ‘07):

and this was them on April 10th:

Oh deary me, oh deary me! I sure do hope this dry spell continues until the day they get sheared. If it decides to get all rainy and icky, I really don’t know what we will do. There is no way to keep Furio (the dirtier one) from rolling around in the mud/dirt and I’m guessing it is near to impossible to shear a muddy, wet alpaca.

Just look at this guy! He is definitely the dirtiest one of the bunch. The sheep manage to stay pretty clean somehow (especially Kenzie, the white ewe).

I’ll be interested to see how the shearing goes. We’ve never dealt with shearing them before because, as you can see in the first picture, the alpacas were sheared before we got them last year and the sheep were too young to be sheared so this will be their first shearing as well. Wish us luck!