Snow Leopard asked what we do with the wool. In the post below this you can see, in the Christmas picture, on the left hand side, the corner of a spinning wheel that my wife spins yarn on. In this picture Misty is wearing a scarf that my daughter knitted from her wool (they dyed it using some sort of natural dye, a yellow flower) — and jolly warm and soft it is too, I wear it in very cold weather.
That’s a really good shot above of our bright-yellow wood chipper, or whatever they’re called — branch and twig eaters — before I smashed the plastic casing by dropping a bale of hay on it. Those were the days. Anyway, below is a close-up of the coat of a newly-sheared goat. The softest wool comes from young goats, except for Vesle (top right in the above picture), whose wool will always be the top quality.
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