I don’t know how many times I have taken this journey, but it is always fun, educational and worth the time to travel to the Auza’s Sheep Company. From my house to their office driving through the Phoenix metropolitan traffic can be a challenge but worth it once I arrived.

The day started at the Auza’s seeing the new Great Pyrenees puppies. I had never seen the puppies before and could have spent the day with them. They are so adorable and friendly but watch when they are out with the sheep. A different story if you mess with their sheep! But these little guys have some training to go through first.

After leaving the puppies we drove to see the lambs which are also adorable and so cute.  I could take them home with me! Several were close to the road and came to visit. These lambs were being bottled feed.

Mama’s with older babies were in the adjacent field.

Our last stop was the shearing operation. This is organized chaos. Lambs crying for their mamas which are being sheared, ewes wanting to get ahead or see what the line hold up is, men pushing the ewes along the line for the next available shearer, the shearing, the gathering of the wool and putting it in the machine to be pressed down until the bag is about 400 pounds!

The last step after shearing is the vaccination process and the camp is broken down and moved to the next location. But the men will stop first for their lunch before shearing all afternoon.

As soon as I can upload a couple of videos I will put on another post. For now enjoy. I hope to see you back for my next post.