FINNSHEEP Rooed Raw Fleece, Betula 2020, 2 pound 4 ounces, white, free shipping

This is Betula’s 2020 Raw Fleece. 2 pound 4 ounces. Her fleece was coated/ jacketed most of the year. This is a rooed fleece rather than a shorn one. That means there is a thin spot in the fiber and the fleece can be gently pulled away from the new wool growing in. This trait is more common in shetland sheep however, occasionally it is seen in other breeds. In all our years with Betula, this was the first year her fleece was rooed and not shorn. Raw fleece means it has not been washed yet. Her fleece weighs 2 pounds 4 ounces.

Betula’s fleece is a crimpy white and because it was rooed, it is extra special. When a fleece is rooed, the wool strand is tapered on both ends since no cutting was involved which would create a blunt end…that means the wool is even softer feeling than normal finnsheep wool. The tips are a bit dingy from when she was uncoated after lambing however, that will wash clean. A really nice tight crimp in her fleece which she passed on to nearly every lamb she had.

Betula is a purebred registered finnsheep born in 2011 at Point of View Farm. She is one of the few white finnsheep in the Point of View farm flock. Her fleeces have won awards at the Dutchess County Fair in Rhinebeck NY and Maryland sheep and wool festival in the past. She has been an attentive mom to many lambs over the years and earned her retirement here at the farm.