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| Wild Rose Farm Rambouillet Ewe #561 - Skirted Fleece |
Here's one of the Rambouillet fleeces that we will be bringing to the 2019 Waynesburg Sheep & Fiber Fest this weekend. All of the fleeces will have the ewe's micron test report with them in case you're as geeky about that as we are!
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| #561 Rambouillet Ewe Washed Fleece Sample |
I grabbed the little sample in the top picture and swished it quickly with warm water & plain old Soft Soap over the kitchen sink … you can see the crimp in the sample. Rambouillet fleeces clean up well if pulled out in lock formation and washed by hand.
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| Wild Rose Farm Ram Heads Down the Road! |
Speaking of crimp & micron tests, we sold our Rambouillet ram about a month ago to some folks who were specifically looking to get some finer "half-blood" wool from their commercial flock. He sired all of our Rambouillet lambs last year and this year and has a 21.5 micron fleece. It was good to have a ram go to another flock where he can help improve a future wool clip!
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| Wild Rose Farm Dorset Ewe #117 & Twin Ram Lambs |
And who doesn't want to see another picture of lambs? Attentive Dorset ewe #117 has a nice set of twin ram lambs this year. They were sired by our performance tested Dorset ram. We'd like to se them go to a small commercial flock for breeding … they're filling out nicely now.
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