Some of their females were already sheared last week.
We sheared some of the boys today. This guy's name is leo. He had quite the messy hair-do.Before:
After:
Bet you didn't know that alpacas are ticklish? Yup, and because of that some of the big boys required several people to hold them down, even though they are tied to the table.
We started by shearing some white boys and they had lovely fine fleece (even though the Burtons consider them "fibre males" meaning they don't use them for breeding).
Still... very luscious!
We also sheared some brown boys, with coarser fibre but lots of personality!
And in the end I cam away with two big bags of fibre... beige and chocolate brown. This is my first raw fleece and I'm so excited. More on that later though!!
