FINNSHEEP Raw Fleece, Dairy Queen 2024, 4 pounds 6.9 ounces, brown and white spotted, free shipping

This is Dairy Queen’s 2024 Raw Fleece. She is a purebred finnsheep ewe that was coated/ jacketed most of the year. Very low on VM (vegetable matter- hay, straw, grass from the pasture). I dislike VM as much as the next spinner…in fact, maybe more so. I get a little ruthless about skirting and removing all wool that has VM in it so you are only getting nice wool with Point of View Farm fleeces….and not vm.  This fleece has a bit of fine vm alone the spine.  The wool there is so crimpy and nice that I picked as much as I could out.  The rest will fall out during processing.  Of that I am quite confident.    It weighs 4 pounds 6.9 ounces. dairy Queen was not bred for a 2024 lambing so that is why her fleece is heavier and longer than most of my other ewes. she put 110% into growing a beautiful finnsheep fleece

Raw fleece means it has not been washed yet so it will smell like a sheep and need washing either before or after spinning. The fleece was carefully and professionally shorn off Lambie New Zealand style (in a single piece) by a shearer who takes pride in his work, is careful, gentle and knows what he is doing. This shearer has shorn award winning fleeces at Rhinebeck and Maryland Fleece show and sales for many years for our farm and others. He has been shearing sheep for decades and is a good friend too. Check out the photo of it I took while it was on the skirting table after shearing. This is a full years growth of wool.

Dairy Queen was born at Point of View Farm in 2021. This is her first shearing.  A gorgeous crimpy finnsheep fleece that falls within the finer side of the breed standard for staple length, crimps per inch and micron (it is not lab tested however, I’m a certified wool classer so I have some experience here). DQ, as we call her, is a  brown or morrit color  with big white patches.  Really stunning. The brown has sun bleached tips.  Fun fact: In Finland they call brown lambs, Ruskea.  Lamb fleeces are generally the softest fleece a sheep will grow their entire lives.  DQ is the daughter of our fabulous and famous ewe Brown Cow.  Milky bloodline.  You might have guessed that.  Brown Cow also produced fabulous fleeces well into her more senior years.  This ewe is like a carbon copy of her.  We are excited to continue on this bloodline in our flock.

Finnsheep fleece takes dye like a dream and would also blend beautifully with other wools where you want to add luster and drape. This is a special fleece for a special project.