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Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2009 6:41 pm

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With my *new* place, I want to get a few goats. Goats are amazing creatures. I went to the petting zoo and all these goats just surrounded me and just cuddled.

Anyways, I've scoured Google and I can't find out how to make wool. I know that a) I need goats b) I need to shave them (?) and somewhere 9) spin the fur. I need to know the steps in between. And, any tips you're willing to share.

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Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 7:44 am

spamming is good!

from what i remember in my girl scout days wool needs to be "carded" which is the hair is brushed through these large combs to make it all fluffy and that fluffy mess is then spun into wool.

here's some links:

http://www.bvwools.com/processing_wool_steps.htm
http://www.ansci.cornell.edu/courses/as380/lab/wool/hartnagelspinfelt.html
http://www.ehow.com/how_2090621_card-wool.html
http://www.helium.com/items/895217-carding-wool-ready-for-spinning

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Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 11:36 am

I love goats, too. They can be a real handful!

Goats, like sheep, are bred for a purpose---meat, wool and hair, milk. Be sure that you get the breed that will give you what you want. This is a good site www.ansi.okstate.edu/breeds/goats. You can research all breeds of sheep and goats there.

Then do a search on handspinning, you'll turn up lots of information!

Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 4:14 pm

Thank you for those terms. As I didn't know the actual terms, Google came up with nothing relevant.

I heard goats can be pretty curious and rambunctious. The picture above was with pygmy goats and they were amazing. I felt so calm and at peace sitting around them. Leaving the farm, I asked the person at the desk if all goats are like that, or if those goats were just used to lots of people. He explained mostly all goats have the calm and loving temperament, but the pygmies are the ones they used due to their smaller size. (Even though I got a few love knocks from their heads.)

Gathering wool doesn't seem to require a huge commitment, like having milk goats.

(link to my facebook album of the farm trip because I seem to be a bit of an attention whore these days.)

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Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2009 10:51 am

pirhan

Thank you for those terms. As I didn't know the actual terms, Google came up with nothing relevant.

I heard goats can be pretty curious and rambunctious. The picture above was with pygmy goats and they were amazing. I felt so calm and at peace sitting around them. Leaving the farm, I asked the person at the desk if all goats are like that, or if those goats were just used to lots of people. He explained mostly all goats have the calm and loving temperament, but the pygmies are the ones they used due to their smaller size. (Even though I got a few love knocks from their heads.)

Gathering wool doesn't seem to require a huge commitment, like having milk goats.

(link to my facebook album of the farm trip because I seem to be a bit of an attention whore these days.)

I went to a petting zoo too in Liverpool, i thought i was the only adult who liked petting zoos XD

And we saw goats, but my sister in law was scared of the goats, she let her hand idle inside the fence and it started to eat her shirt u.u

Here are some of my goat photos:

Me and the goat

Her scared of the goat

Us holding ducks

Posted: Sun Aug 01, 2010 4:37 pm

Just curious, but what happened to your goat project? Did you ever make your own wool?

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Posted: Sun Aug 01, 2010 11:41 pm

I hear cashmere wool is pulverized through sieve to remover the course fibers and open up the softer ones.

I assume it is then carded and spun, but there may be more steps.

I wonder what they do with the more course fibers... Great for rope I bet. You only need so much rope, though xd

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