JRF Shearing and Sheep Co.

04/20/2025

Happy Easter from me, Barrett and Baby (the lamb)! 🐑❤️
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03/17/2025

Words were said, promises were not kept…but, as any good mother does, I’m blaming my baby 😂 FINALLY, the end of the schedule is done! Everyone should be receiving their date by this week. If you do not receive your date, please send me a text. I’ve been having a really hard time trying to keep up with emails this season, as some of you may have seen. I tried to double and triple check that no one was missed but after staring at the computer screen long enough, sometimes the names all look the same 🫠

03/07/2025

Alrighty everyone! Texts/emails have gone out for people on the March and April schedules! Messages for May should be coming out this weekend. Again, apologies for the delay this season. If it’s not one thing it’s another. My mare had a freak accident while we were out last week that landed her in the hospital with a lot of after care so I’ve been falling behind on responsibilities. Mostly just getting on my computer and finalizing the last month (which is by far the easiest part of scheduling). I’ll be getting back to messages and emails either tonight or tomorrow night so please don’t fret if I’ve been silent! I promise if you are on the schedule last year or reached out prior, you’re on the schedule this year!

02/23/2025

I wanted to give everyone an update since I’ve been so quiet on this page, I am diligently working on creating the schedule at the moment. If you’ve messaged me asking for shearing services and I haven’t gotten back to you, I promise I will! You are in the books, no worries!

With that being said, I am closing my books at the end of February and will reevaluate come May. I am so blessed that I have so many amazing clients that keep me coming back and new clients that are entrusting me with your wooly and fibrous friends. But, since I’m so ✨popular✨ I’m unable to take on any more at this time.

To everyone that is on my books, you should be contacted at some point this week with a shearing date. And to new clients I haven’t responded to yet, you should be getting a message from me hopefully within the next few days.

I do have a few public events this spring, if you’re looking for a family friendly activity to go to, keep your eyes peeled on my page where I’ll post the dates and locations ☺️ THANK EWE!

12/19/2024

I know I’ve been M.I.A. for fall shearing but I promise you, I’ve been working hard on something else. I’d like to introduce the newest member to the JRF Shearing crew, Barrett. Barrett has been brewing since March and has been there throughout spring shearing. He just got in the way a little bit with the fall season making it difficult to bend over or breathe 😮‍💨 spring shearing will continue as usual, but I may just have this little helper with me to show him the ropes. I’ll be responding to emails and messages soon! We’ve just taken a little hiatus while we figure things out and recover 😌

06/18/2024

Still have to do a May photo dump as social media has been on the back burner but I wanted to introduce our new ram, Earnest! One of my shearing clients, now friend and sheep partner, had asked about getting a ram. I suggested Hilltop Acres Farm in NY. From there, we decided to get a ram together and expand our sheep breeding businesses together. Get ready for some beautiful registered Texels available from both of us! Our ram lambs will create some beautiful meat boxes and cloth tanned pelts available for sale next year.

05/22/2024

Don’t know what to do with your wool? Use it for your garden! I just planted some jalapeño plants and used some of last year’s texel wool around it to stifle any weeds that might pop up after I hand tilled the area. This will keep it more maintenance free especially with someone like me that is too busy taking care of my 4 legged critters.
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Also, I’m not a green thumb so don’t come at me for my crappy garden area, it’s a work in progress 😂 eventually, I’ll have more plants back here but I’m going to start with things I like, like jalapeños.

05/10/2024

Posting for a client! Free to good home only! Must be a pet home that will love these babies the way they have been! Mother, daughter, wethered son. Purebred icelandics and extremely friendly. Freshly shorn but grow a beautiful fleece. Great pasture ornaments to marvel at 😍 and good with small children. Located in Montgomery County, PA. Please message me if you’re interested and I can pass off the contact info 😌 only reason for rehoming is due to a move.

05/01/2024

Check out photos from the public shearing demo! By far the biggest crowd(s) I’ve shorn in front of but even then, it’s just another day of shearing 😌

04/30/2024

Here it is! The google form for shirts! If you’re local and I already got you, I can easily drop them off to you 😌 I’m putting in the order by the end of the week! Pictures included in the google form so you know what the shirts look like. They’re super comfortable. I did handpick them! They’re $16/shirt. Thanks all!

Threadfast Apparel Shirts with new logos are $16

04/29/2024

A week of shearing summed up in pictures. Tuesday I had some sheep locally to get done when I had some spare time. Then had to switch some things around since I had to go to Kentucky for my day job at the end of the week. Saturday I brought a few of my own sheep to a really fun public demo up in Philly. It was great to get a few of my own sheep done and also break up the monotony of shearing with some demos and talking. Had a very good turn out for it! It was so fun listening to the crowd ohh and ahh at certain moments of shearing like when I break the wool at the neck. Wonderful little set up and I’m excited to be their shearer next year! Sunday I wrapped up my week with 25 sheep at , mostly Jacob’s with some beautiful rams that really had me thinking, which is always fun! Only one month left of my shearing season.
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On my to do list this week is return some calls and some emails. I know yall are waiting to be scheduled, I haven’t forgotten about you! Even if it takes me a few weeks to get back to you! Luckily, my amazing secretary .catalina.matos has been managing all the scheduling and has done a better job than anyone else ever could. This has been the most clients I’ve ever had in a single season, upwards of 70+ farms, and somehow, someway, she made it easier than it’s ever been. I really don’t know how she does it!
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Lastly, I know this is a lengthy post, but I’ll be putting out a google form for merch this week! I got my quote on shirts so if I already hit your farm and your local, I can drop it off to you no problem! I’ll put the pricing of shirts with the new logo in the caption for the google form. Excited to have my beautiful new logo out there on some very comfy shirts that I picked out.
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Happy shearing everyone! Cheers! 🍻

04/23/2024

If anyone is free Saturday and wants to come out for a public shearing demo! I’ll be bringing some of my sheep that usually have to wait till the very end of the season to be shorn 😌 they’re finally going to be done early this year!

04/22/2024

A beautiful day with beautiful sheep’s 😍

04/15/2024

21 farms crossed off the list this week! Couldn’t post 21 pictures but you get the point.
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Thank you to my clients for the flexibility with the rain on Friday and also my rough start on Monday with timing 😅 it has certainly been a week! I’m glad I could get this many done at once and whittle down my growing list. Looking forward to a sports massage this week to get my muscles in check before cracking on and getting it all done before June 😎
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Just a reminder (I know I still have people to call back and schedule, I’m getting there) I do close my books May 1st! If you have sheep that need shorn, don’t delay to reach out! Only 15 days until the books close and my schedule is finalized for the season.
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04/12/2024

A very delayed post from Easter weekend but things have been so busy, social media has been put on the back burner. I went up north to shear some babydolls, Leicester longwools and icelandics. With that trip, my awesome client gave me some of her own felted wool soap! How amazing is that?! It’s so cool to use a product from the sheep I shear! Highly recommend checking out her business! With Friday wrapped up, I was invited to bring one of my ewes and her babies to an Easter egg drop at a local church in my community and of course I couldn’t turn that down. I love supporting the community in any way that I can and it was quite an experience to hold lambs, a ewe and watch a helicopter fly over top dropping eggs. The kids loved the “farm animal experience” and got to learn a few things. (Facebook won’t let me add the video to this post, but trust me, it was cool).

Next post will be a hefty one as I’ve shorn at 18 farms this week by tomorrow with only a slight hiccup in my week due to rain today. I’ll finally be catching up on some messages today and tomorrow!

03/24/2024

Calling it a wrap for the weekend! Started off with WB Saul on Friday, headed to Jersey right after to get some more big sheep done. Took a break on Saturday for a speaking event I had in the morning. Picked right back up today with Valais at the first farm, mixed breeds at the second, and one of my favorite goats, Shorty, at the last farm. Time to eat some good food and get cleaned up for the week ahead 😌🐑✂️
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03/21/2024

Almost had the most perfect before and after pictures of Finley, Wilma and Opal but Wilma decided to check out the piles of wool right at picture time 😂 kicking off shearing season with the most perfect transformation breed, baby dolls. The only time baby dolls enjoy shearing is usually during their face…then they can actually see what’s happening and fight 😂
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03/03/2024

✨Coming soon✨ after however many long years of having a clip art logo and trying to wear through my shirts, I teamed up with and had him create me a beautiful new logo! I’m so excited about having a noticeable and stylish logo to wear and you better bet, I will be wearing every clothing item with my new logo on it 😍 I’ll be taking shirt orders soon before the shearing season kicks off so if any of my clients want a shirt, I can get them to you when I visit 😌
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