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A Herdwick's grey fleece is not easily dyed and is coarse, so it is best suited to use as carpet wool. The wool is also an excellent natural insulator; it is possible to buy sheets of fireproofed wool to fit as loft insulation. [20] Herdwick lamb and mutton has a very distinct taste, and was eaten at Queen Elizabeth II's 1953 coronation banquet ...
Well-cared for and "happy" sheep make the best wool, yarn experts who use rare-breeds have said. Becci and Markus Pamely-Bast founded a wool and hand-dyed yarn business seven years ago on a ...
Leicester Longwool sheep date back to the 1700s, and were found in the Midland counties of England, originally developed in Dishley Grange, Leicestershire, [3] by Robert Bakewell. Bakewell was the foremost exponent of modern animal-breeding techniques in the selection of livestock. The Leicester Longwool in the 1700s was slow-growing and ...
The rya sheep is a medium-sized sheep with relatively short legs, and has strong and shiny long wool fibers. [3] The legs, tail, forehead, cheek, and crown do not have wool. [ 3 ] For a three-month-old lamb, the wool can be 6 in (15 cm) long, and for an adult, the wool can be up to 12 in (30 cm) long. [ 4 ]
The Peppin brothers mainly used Saxon Merino (a few of the best Victorian rams) and Rambouillet Merino rams, importing four in 1860. One of these, Emperor, cut an 11.4 kg (5.1 kg clean) fleece. They also bought two sons of Old Grimes, a famous plain-bodied Vermont ram, but from then on they bred only from their own sheep. In 1871, Fred Peppin said,
This type of sheep results from crossbreds produced by British Longwool sheep and Merinos being mated back to Merinos. This cross is made to achieve a finer, better style of wool. [2] Comeback style wool is also produced by Bond, Cormo and Polwarth sheep and they may prove easier to breed than Comebacks. [3]
The Devon Closewool is reared for meat and for wool.. On lowland grass, lambs may be ready for slaughter at between twelve and sixteen weeks, when they yield a dressed carcase weight of about 18–21 kg; on upland grazing they may take up to twenty-four weeks to reach the same weights. [5]
The wool has a fibre diameter of 38 - 40 microns. [2] At each shearing, the wool is approximately 120 to 200 mm (4.7 to 7.9 in) in length and weighs about 6.0 kg (13.2 lb). [1] On average, rams weigh 70 kg (150 lb) and ewes weigh 58 kg (128 lb) at maturity. Rams can be horned or polled (hornless). Ewes are always polled.