You are visiting the "Our Sheep" page. The links in the box to the right will take you to other pages within the "Our Sheep" section. The links with asterisks in front will return you to either the parent page or to the "Home" page. Click on any picture below to view a larger size of the picture. Then click on the "back" button to return to this page.

Other sheep pictures appear in the "Working" section. In the photos below, I will describe how a friend was being shown the way to hand shear.

Herdwicks

HebridEans

*Eddie and Sue

*Home

Starting from the neck, start clipping away down one side to the rear leg, stopping half way from the backbone. Then, clip the other side from the neck in the same manner. When you meet the backbone, the fleece should come away in one piece.

As pictured above, but clipping down left hand side.

This shows just before the entire fleece and sheep part company.

Pupil taking note.

Pupil clipping under instructions.

Second pupil under instructions with Dewi looking on.

Ever watchful Dewi.

© 2011 Innovare Design. The majority of  materials presented on this website are copyrighted by the original authors, etc. In addition, the appropriate forms have been filed with the United States Library of Congress in order to protect original authorship under 17 U.S.C. Sec. 102(a). Further, licensing fees have been paid for use of some images. Therefore, under the provisions of the U.S. Copyright Law, as well as the Berne Agreement, for those countries honoring the Berne Agreement, you are hereby notified not to use, or copy, any materials on this website without the prior written consent of the copyright holder. Questions or Concerns? Please contact copyright@shepherdswithbeardies.com or info@shepherdswithbeardies.com. These two email addresses are not presented as links. They must be retyped in the address line for your email. This was done to avoid unnecessary junk email being forwarded to the website. Thank you for your understanding.