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Still got the ewes to do yet, im not looking forward to them, just might get someone in. Done about 60 today, some hoggs , very good to do, some sufforks, big fat lazy feckers, with bellies that need a blow torch on, then a few tups thst where real barstwards, wouldn't bend, fought all the timeWas up at my mates yesterday and did 70 odd Mule dry hoggs and 20 something pure BFL and pure Texel ewe and tup hoggs. Nice steady day easy going. Got hone last night and ran 100 of my ewes into the cow shed for doing today.
Glad they're done but was regretting it half way through. They weren't very good going... sticky round the edges/points, shyte bellies (although most were clear of the belly) and still fully zipped up the neck. They were mostly good shearing once you got them opened, but a lot of work and no big tallys.
The very first ewe up the race, destined to stand in the decoy dropped dead as soon as she got there. Gutting at the best of times but she was a good ewe. I felt better for shearing when I found a ewe well struck - they'd started in clean wool up in the small of her back! I was very surprised to see it.
I felt better for the bad shearing, once they were out with there lambs. When I had finished shearing I shut the gate and was looking over them... aye the 'poor doers' had bloody good lambs on them.
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Tomorrow is to be a wash out so I've another 100 shut in tonight - might not get any more done til Friday otherwise. Not confident of their shearing quality after today, but there's a lot more plucks laying in their fields so I'm hopeful. But, If they break me, I'll just keep them in and do them over 2 days if needs be...