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Old November 3rd 03, 02:43 AM
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i have a cleaning question or 6...
Radar, the lovely Angora wether, is due for fall shearing
this week (as soon as i get his polarfleece coat finished...
can't have the poor thing freezing). anyway, being his typical
obnoxious goaty self, he's got hay & such in his hair. do i
try to wash & comb him out before shearing (he had a bath a
few weeks after he was neutered & boy did that improve his
appearance & smellg)? or do i have to hand pick a couple
pounds of mohair? before or after i wash it? on the off chance
he may have picked up lice while on pasture, how does one
remove the remains without destroying the fiber?
TIA. i ruined his kid cut
lee
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Old November 3rd 03, 03:37 AM
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Recommend you plan to pick after you shear, unless you can keep him on
clean pasture after you comb him out. Combing WILL blow the lock
structure so making Santa beards will be pretty much blown.

Why shear now? Usually the fall shearing is for lambs born in the
spring that are going to the locker, and for some breeds such as
Icelandics that put on inordinate amounts of growth otherwise...

On 3 Nov 2003 01:43:09 GMT, enigma wrote:

i have a cleaning question or 6...
Radar, the lovely Angora wether, is due for fall shearing
this week (as soon as i get his polarfleece coat finished...
can't have the poor thing freezing). anyway, being his typical
obnoxious goaty self, he's got hay & such in his hair. do i
try to wash & comb him out before shearing (he had a bath a
few weeks after he was neutered & boy did that improve his
appearance & smellg)? or do i have to hand pick a couple
pounds of mohair? before or after i wash it? on the off chance
he may have picked up lice while on pasture, how does one
remove the remains without destroying the fiber?
TIA. i ruined his kid cut
lee


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Old November 3rd 03, 01:49 PM
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SlinkyToy wrote in
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Recommend you plan to pick after you shear, unless you can
keep him on clean pasture after you comb him out. Combing
WILL blow the lock structure so making Santa beards will be
pretty much blown.


ok. he tends to get hay dropped on his back by the llamas, so
hopefully leaving him coated this winter will help keep his
spring clip a bit less messy. i should have clipped him a
couple weeks ago before we started feeding hay again, but....

Why shear now? Usually the fall shearing is for lambs born
in the spring that are going to the locker, and for some
breeds such as Icelandics that put on inordinate amounts of
growth otherwise...


Angora goat. he *needs* to be clipped twice a year. i didn't
clip him last fall & he had over 10" of dirty starting to mat
hair when i did clip in spring. i ruined it (well, Tom did
actually. i had to take the toddler somewhere so Tom "helped")
trying to get it clean. he washed it before i skirted &
picked... and he figured stirring it up would clean it faster.
10 pounds of dirty mohair in a 15 gallon bucket....it wasn't
pretty.
at least he's been on pasture & only has a little hay in the
hair right now...
lee
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Old November 3rd 03, 02:40 PM
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Hm, I've got friends who keep mohairs (what us ignant Texans call 'em)
and they only clip in the spring. Who knew

This year send the husband off with the kidlet!

On 3 Nov 2003 12:49:06 GMT, enigma wrote:

SlinkyToy wrote in
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Recommend you plan to pick after you shear, unless you can
keep him on clean pasture after you comb him out. Combing
WILL blow the lock structure so making Santa beards will be
pretty much blown.


ok. he tends to get hay dropped on his back by the llamas, so
hopefully leaving him coated this winter will help keep his
spring clip a bit less messy. i should have clipped him a
couple weeks ago before we started feeding hay again, but....

Why shear now? Usually the fall shearing is for lambs born
in the spring that are going to the locker, and for some
breeds such as Icelandics that put on inordinate amounts of
growth otherwise...


Angora goat. he *needs* to be clipped twice a year. i didn't
clip him last fall & he had over 10" of dirty starting to mat
hair when i did clip in spring. i ruined it (well, Tom did
actually. i had to take the toddler somewhere so Tom "helped")
trying to get it clean. he washed it before i skirted &
picked... and he figured stirring it up would clean it faster.
10 pounds of dirty mohair in a 15 gallon bucket....it wasn't
pretty.
at least he's been on pasture & only has a little hay in the
hair right now...
lee


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Old November 4th 03, 01:37 AM
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In article , enigma
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SlinkyToy wrote in
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Recommend you plan to pick after you shear, unless you can
keep him on clean pasture after you comb him out. Combing
WILL blow the lock structure so making Santa beards will be
pretty much blown.


ok. he tends to get hay dropped on his back by the llamas, so
hopefully leaving him coated this winter will help keep his
spring clip a bit less messy. i should have clipped him a
couple weeks ago before we started feeding hay again, but....

Why shear now? Usually the fall shearing is for lambs born
in the spring that are going to the locker, and for some
breeds such as Icelandics that put on inordinate amounts of
growth otherwise...


Angora goat. he *needs* to be clipped twice a year. i didn't
clip him last fall & he had over 10" of dirty starting to mat
hair when i did clip in spring. i ruined it (well, Tom did
actually. i had to take the toddler somewhere so Tom "helped")
trying to get it clean. he washed it before i skirted &
picked... and he figured stirring it up would clean it faster.
10 pounds of dirty mohair in a 15 gallon bucket....it wasn't
pretty.
at least he's been on pasture & only has a little hay in the
hair right now...
lee


Lee you are right, it is better to not skip a annual clipping. I just
worked with Llama fleeces. The owner of the llamas got very ill last year
and the animals were not shorn, and ended up with nearly two year growth
of hair. From the 28 lbs collected, only 8 lbs was good enough for
spinning the rest went in the garbage. Matted and badly felted fleece.
Badly tippy locks. Hay mad and other foreighn material all through the
fleece. The minerals in mud do great damage to wool over long periods of
time. The tips of the locks had totally disintegrated. Llama fleeces can
be so nice and soft. Animals grown for wool, should be shorn at least
once a year.

Els

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