Skirting is when you remove debris from sheep’s wool before selling. Debris in sheep wool often includes stains, vegetable manner, tags, and tarry bits. This is an essential process to make wool presentable to the public. Whether you sell raw wool fleeces or produce fiber products to sell, after shearing is completed, skirting wool is […]
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Since the 1970’s, traditional wool has seen a decline in use in clothing and other products compared to synthetic fabrics. Synthetic materials are cheaper, made in a factory, and made on-demand. On the other hand, traditional wool requires a more labor-intensive and time-consuming production process to care for the sheep. Even if it’s not as
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Wool is a highly sought-after material for a plethora of different reasons used in a variety of industries. This is just one reason why proper handling, storing, and marketing of wool fleeces is so important. It’s just as important for wool producers to know what to do with sheep wool after shearing. That will preserve
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If you have decided to raise sheep for wool production, then you will first need to learn how to keep sheep wool clean and free of contaminants. Most fleece produced on small farms is marketed to hand spinners who will either require raw fleece or roving. Spinners will be looking for wool in many different
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Shearing, skirting, and spinning are part of the cycle for farmers on sheep fiber farms. They are activities that require hard work to ensure that the fleece is ready to be sold at a high standard. However, the quality of the fleece your sheep produce relies on effective management practices. The way you take care
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If you’re to achieve and maintain a healthy flock, your sheep need specific amounts of energy, vitamins, energy, minerals, water, and fiber. Ensuring that the nutritional requirements of your flock are satisfied can be done in a number of different ways. Just like human beings and some other species, sheep’s dietary requirements can be satisfied
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The Wiltshire Horn sheep breed developed in the south of England, where its history dates back over numerous centuries. They are sometimes incorrectly described as hair sheep, but they are in fact wool sheep, and the breed has the capability of shedding (often they do so annually, in the spring). The Wiltshire Horn breed is
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The SuperSharp FootRot Shears are a solid product, and offer shepherds a combination of quality and low price that we really liked. You can purchase these and save over $10 vs. the cost of our top-reviewed Shear Magic Hoof Trimmers, but we had a few reservations with the long-term performance of the SuperSharp™ shears which
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The Barbados Blackbelly sheep breed is native to Barbados, one of the Caribbean Islands. The breed is a direct descendant of West African sheep introduced to the island during the age of the African slave trade.
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The California Variegated Mutant or CVM sheep breed was developed from selective breeding of the Rambouillet and the Romney breeds, which is otherwise known as the Romeldale. The California Variegated Mutant shows that repetitive color genes can cause something extremely different to occur, as each and every one of these CVM sheep is unique in
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