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--- Pat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This message is from: Pat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Mary,
> Do you know if spinning sheep wool is the same for
> llamas?
> Is llama wool the same to work with?
Pat,
Spinning llama fiber and spinning she
This message is from: Alison Bakken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi,
It nice to know that there are other hand spinners out there. I have
Angora Goats. They are more like sheep than goats in alot of ways. The
Angora's do not climb or jump the way that other breeds of goats do. I
use them to help keep
This message is from: Gail Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I have
>some pastures that were allowed to return to scrub in some areas. Typical
>stuff like burdock and thistle probably some nettles. Would sheep be
inclined
>to eat this sort of stuff? What about buttercup?
I have pastured sheep, goat
This message is from: "Turcotte, Dianne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Does it depend at all upon the kind of sheep that you raise? Are some
breeds dumber than others?
I remember when I was a kid the people I half-owned my horse with also
raised sheep and goats, both the sheep and
goats were relatively no
This message is from: Don & Jane Brackett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Marsha Jo Hannah wrote:
> If you get into sheep, have
> enough of them that you don't become attached to any one animal---they
> don't last long.
Sounds like you just got bad sheep. We have the same problem the
McGinley's have, lot
This message is from: Don & Jane Brackett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Pat spinning llama is nice but I like sheep wool and Alpaca better. The
alpaca is like llama but much softer. Neither have the stretch or bounce
of wool.
Jane
This message is from: Don & Jane Brackett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
HI All-
Great to hear of more spinners! It is wonderful therapy, you can spin a
supper tight yarn when waiting for the vet to call back! :)
We have a sheep farm in Maine that we raise primarily for spinning
fleeces both white and colo
This message is from: Mark and Lisa McGinley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Marsha Jo Hannah wrote:
> If you get into sheep, have
> enough of them that you don't become attached to any one animal---they
> don't last long.
> I found that I had to get a new ram about every 2
> years, as they tend to get
This message is from: Mark and Lisa McGinley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Mary Thurman wrote:
> I remember him commenting that a sheep
> was "a four-legged accident looking for a place to
> happen."
We got sheep before horses and the first time I heard this saying was in
regard to the horses (which has
This message is from: Marsha Jo Hannah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> "Teressa Kandianis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Organic Gardening had an article about the glories of sheep raising
> a couple of years ago. [...] they were fairly low maintenance except
> in areas where wet mucky ground was the rul
This message is from: Pat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Mary,
Do you know if spinning sheep wool is the same for llamas?
Is llama wool the same to work with?
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The sheep won't follow the horses very far, at least not before they drop
dead. Sheep have small lungs and cannot be chased too far before expiring.
There is a woman in Maine who is a spinstress (she also does the technical
work at Maine Public Radio. Sh
This message is from: Mary Thurman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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I
> am learning how to spin
> this winter
Hooray for you!! At our house we laughingly call my
spinning "sheep therapy". Believe me, it works!
Don't know about kee
This message is from: "Teressa Kandianis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Organic Gardening had an article about the glories of sheep raising a couple
of years ago. If you can scare that up, it was very interesting. Seems
that sheep poop is the best of the animal poops for your soil. And I
believe it did c
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When I lived in CT before Fjords I had two Nubian wethers. I used them to
clear an acre that was totally overgrown with poison ivy and they did an
excellent job! They'd climb right up a tree to eat it off the trunk. After a
season on that acre the PI neve
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