Shearing day 2020 has begun
Channel: Zwartbles Ireland Suzanna Crampton
Date: 2020-07-16

Yes I’ve shorn most of my ewes but 6 remain, 5 rams, 30 lambs and 3 alpaca. Why shear lambs you ask? Well that’s for the dung beetles. If I wasn’t to shear the lambs they could possibly get fly strike if I didn’t poor an insecticide onto them to protect them. Which in turn comes out in their shit and does damage those insects which eat manure which in turn feed birds.







Zwartbles Ireland is a small company run from a farm in County Kilkenny in Ireland. We sell, Zwartbles sheep, Zwartbles blankets and yarn made from the sheep, and calendars featuring the Cats Shepherd Bodacious and Inca the World's Smallest Sheepdog.