I see spots!

Here's a before and after shearing photo of Frances Bean - what a cutie! She turns a year old next month and this was her very first time being shorn.

I love shearing an alpaca the first time to see how the color has changed and darkened "below the surface" of what you usually see. Franny's dark brown fiber looked like chocolate and then to see her spots - wow! I'm showing a close up of her rear end in the photo below because we found appaloosa spots under all that white fiber. She also has a lot of spots on her neck as well.

Rick has taken the week off and Rene' will also take a couple days this week to get more shearing done - maybe even finish everyone, we'll see. Today though we are taking a day off from shearing. Tomorrow we'll start back up again and we'll have some very grateful alpacas who will enjoy the sunny weather even more with their new haircuts - Wednesday is supposed to get up to 80 degrees!

Have a great day!