IAN & JENNIFER LUTZ
490 WHEELER CAMP RD
PERKINSVILLE, VT 05151
802-263-5740

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It’s the fleece, stupid!

By Ian, on May 13th, 2012%
A large part of the 2012 clip is piled up against the wall in the CCNF Arena's fleece room. Each individual blanket was sheared off of the animals in a single piece, given a preliminary skirting, and then rolled up in the brown paper you see above. The fleeces will be opened and skirted further prior to processing or sending them to show.

Happy Mother’s Day to all you mothers out there! Three quarters of the Lutz family (though oddly enough not the mother) at CCNF are spending the day recovering from the 3 day shearing juggernaut that finally came to a merciful conclusion around 5:30 yesterday afternoon. We ended up doing 66 critters on the final day, . . . → Read More: It’s the fleece, stupid!

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Shearing prep

By Ian, on May 6th, 2012%

The really good news around here is that the cycle of seemingly endless dry weather finally went on hiatus while we were away at the Futurity a couple of weeks ago. The bad news though is that now that spring has decided to act like itself again, it is insisting on raining in the days . . . → Read More: Shearing prep

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