At 00:57 -0800 Earth time on 070111 [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent:
Holy Sheepskin! These sheep shed their wool? How many sheep breeds do that? Other than the big horn sheep? Interesting!
Many of the less-developed breeds - for example Shetlands - shed their wool. Most breeds will at least have a thinning of the wool fibers around lambing time, so producers of high quality wool will shear before lambing to have the narrow part of the fibers at the end instead of somewhere else where it weakens the fibers.
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