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CHAPTER 12
MARKETING, FLEECES, AND BY-PRODUCTS
For profit and pleasure, make use of all the by-products you can.
Reaching your market:
The first step is to get yourself known, together with the products you have to offer. There are many ways to find buyers who want your nice fleeces or good meat.
If there are other farmers in your area, you may want to join with them in marketing your products, or you might prefer to do it by yourself.
WOOL
Wool has many very fine qualities. It is not only very warm during the winter months, but it also repels water. It is strong, but at the same time has an elastic-like quality, and this means that it can be spun into a variety of yarns, from very fine to bulky. One pound (0.5 kg) of wool can make 10 miles (16.1 km) of yarn!
Heredity determines the wool type, but its quality and strength depend on not only the health of the sheep, but also the nutrition it was given during each year of fleece growth. Illness can affect the quality of a fleece and can result it in becoming, tender, brittle wool, with a weak portion in every fiber of the whole fleece.
MARKETING, FLEECES, AND BY-PRODUCTS
For profit and pleasure, make use of all the by-products you can.
Reaching your market:
The first step is to get yourself known, together with the products you have to offer. There are many ways to find buyers who want your nice fleeces or good meat.
If there are other farmers in your area, you may want to join with them in marketing your products, or you might prefer to do it by yourself.
WOOL
Wool has many very fine qualities. It is not only very warm during the winter months, but it also repels water. It is strong, but at the same time has an elastic-like quality, and this means that it can be spun into a variety of yarns, from very fine to bulky. One pound (0.5 kg) of wool can make 10 miles (16.1 km) of yarn!
Heredity determines the wool type, but its quality and strength depend on not only the health of the sheep, but also the nutrition it was given during each year of fleece growth. Illness can affect the quality of a fleece and can result it in becoming, tender, brittle wool, with a weak portion in every fiber of the whole fleece.