'It doesn’t even feel like I’m at work when I’m out on farms. I just enjoy it.”
Chloe said the catalyst for her move into making working with sheep her career came during lockdown.“My dad shears all of our own sheep. I’d worked in a few pubs up until lockdown but then being restricted in our movements I asked him to teach me how to clip. All of the rest I now do started from there.
“I will shepherd for anyone who needs me and I’m due back with Jane and over in Malham at the moment, as well as going around clipping.”She now does sheep dressing, shepherding and shearing all over Yorkshire While Chloe hasn’t yet ventured into the world of dressing sheep for the summer agricultural show season, she said she has had success so far with dressing sheep for fatstock shows and sales.
“I dressed about 20 last year, mainly for the Christmas primestock shows. I’m only at the early stages of sheep dressing but I’m learning fast and to go to Skipton and then see what you’ve dressed do well is just great.”“You want your animals to look the best they can. To do that they need to be properly washed. I use water and soda crystals.