https://loafkeeper.com/weblog/?p=114 Bigger Than A Breadbox Thu, 19 Feb 2015 20:14:20 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.38 https://loafkeeper.com/weblog/?p=114#comment-220 Wed, 25 Oct 2006 00:50:05 +0000 http://www.loafkeeper.com/weblog/?p=114#comment-220 ‘Normal’ sheep are generally shorn in the spring – the Icelandic sheep produce a large amount of wool (I think about 12″/year), so you can shear them twice, and an inch or two will grow back before it really starts to get cold. The wool will also naturally break in the spring, and you need to shear before that happens, or you will have a weak spot in the wool – in the ‘old days’ this trait (other breeds have it too) made for easy wool collection when shears weren’t common, since you could just comb out the wool.

]]> https://loafkeeper.com/weblog/?p=114#comment-219 Tue, 24 Oct 2006 15:03:33 +0000 http://www.loafkeeper.com/weblog/?p=114#comment-219 Are sheep normally shorn in the fall? Don’t they get cold in the winter?

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