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Spinning wool for your own personal knitting, or to sell to other knitters or weavers is an outlet to be explored.
Australian Locker Hooking:
Australian Locker Hooking uses unspun fleece. It is a new version of an older craft that used commercial rug yarn. The "locker hook" has a large crochet hook on one end and an eye at the other so that unspun wool may be hooked into rug canvas and locked in with a binder yarn carried by the locker hook. For those of you who do not incline to spinning, this is an attractive and profitable way to create rugs, wall hangings, saddle blankets and so on.
Wool scraps:
Unprocessed wool has several uses, for example its ability to absorb oil is 30 times greater than the weight of oil, which makes it an excellent, disposable cleaning tool. The garden is not forgotten either, wool works like the black-plastic, used to germinate and reduce the number of weeds, but it allows water, air and nutrients to pass through the ground. Wool is flammable, and because of this fire code restrictions may prevent you from using wool as an insulating material. When there are no such restrictions it can be used to insulate, barns and storage sheds. Because of the special properties of wool, scientists are trying to find a way to create a wool-based insulation that meets fire code requirements.
MEAT AND MILK
Meat and milk bring in more profit than wool. Look into the prospects of selling direct to the consumer instead of at a barn sale or other markets.
You are in a better position to offer customers a better meat deal than they would find at a butcher's shop and because there are no middle-men, the profit is not split – it is yours.
As for milk, and cheese they can be sold to individual customers, or health food shops.
In some countries in the west there are restriction laws and regulations on slaughter-and-sell practices. Most are designed to enforce sanitation and ensure the safety of food, so check to see what is applicable to your part of the world.
Lamb meat consumers are, for the most part, among the higher-income groups. This should be borne in mind when determining where to advertise. Many customers prefer leaner cuts of meat, so do not over fatten the lambs in the last month before slaughter. It is important to have a good idea of how much you will get back for different cuts.
Australian Locker Hooking:
Australian Locker Hooking uses unspun fleece. It is a new version of an older craft that used commercial rug yarn. The "locker hook" has a large crochet hook on one end and an eye at the other so that unspun wool may be hooked into rug canvas and locked in with a binder yarn carried by the locker hook. For those of you who do not incline to spinning, this is an attractive and profitable way to create rugs, wall hangings, saddle blankets and so on.
Wool scraps:
Unprocessed wool has several uses, for example its ability to absorb oil is 30 times greater than the weight of oil, which makes it an excellent, disposable cleaning tool. The garden is not forgotten either, wool works like the black-plastic, used to germinate and reduce the number of weeds, but it allows water, air and nutrients to pass through the ground. Wool is flammable, and because of this fire code restrictions may prevent you from using wool as an insulating material. When there are no such restrictions it can be used to insulate, barns and storage sheds. Because of the special properties of wool, scientists are trying to find a way to create a wool-based insulation that meets fire code requirements.
MEAT AND MILK
Meat and milk bring in more profit than wool. Look into the prospects of selling direct to the consumer instead of at a barn sale or other markets.
You are in a better position to offer customers a better meat deal than they would find at a butcher's shop and because there are no middle-men, the profit is not split – it is yours.
As for milk, and cheese they can be sold to individual customers, or health food shops.
In some countries in the west there are restriction laws and regulations on slaughter-and-sell practices. Most are designed to enforce sanitation and ensure the safety of food, so check to see what is applicable to your part of the world.
Lamb meat consumers are, for the most part, among the higher-income groups. This should be borne in mind when determining where to advertise. Many customers prefer leaner cuts of meat, so do not over fatten the lambs in the last month before slaughter. It is important to have a good idea of how much you will get back for different cuts.