The Men Who Stare At Goats

Everyone else seems to have cria popping out all over the place - but not me and I am getting a trifle impatient with Zara.

Today Carl had a new shearing experience - amongst the alpacas he had two Angora goats to shear.  Here we have before . . .

And after . . .

I think he was quite taken with them - incidentally, they are not the same goat in the pictures as one has horns and one didn't!  They were very well behaved but shearing involves a great deal of care round their wrinkly, flappy bits - particularly on the neck and they were not stretched like alpacas - similar, but not the same, as sheep shearing with great care also taken round their toggles (not sure if that is the correct terminology for those hanging bits under their chins).