Tuesday, May 20, 2014
SHEARING at Double D Alpaca Ranch LLC 2014
What a great crew!
WHAT AN AMAZING DAY IT WAS!!! It was so wonderful to have some of our new alpaca customers bring their animals to be shorn on May 11th. We finished almost 50 alpacas in less than 7 hours, thanks to all the team work and our shearer, Armando Victoria and his two helpers.
None of the people who came to help had ever participated in an alpaca shearing event before and yet it just went off like clockwork.
Our crew:
Bryan and Becky Miltenberger (future alpaca owners) of Hermiston, OR
Mike and Elaine Vandiver of Gholson Homestead, Walla Walla, WA
John Rath and Heidi Coles-Rath of NAF Management, Selah, WA
Kerry and Jodie Thompson and their 4 wonderful children, Daniel, Kelli, Nathan, and Jason. They own Patriot Lane Alpacas in Hermiston, OR
We also sheared two for Walla Walla High School's FFA program and one for Jaden Udi, a very active 4-H participant.
Becky, tagging and bagging
Bryan "on deck" with Saphris
Heidi taking it all in
Jodi taking a break