FINNSHEEP Raw LAMB Fleece, Lacey 2022, 2 pounds 10.3 ounces, variegated silver grey, free shipping

This is Lacey’s 2022 Raw Fleece. Lacey is a purebred finnsheep LAMB that was coated/ jacketed most of the year. Very low on VM (vegetable matter- hay, straw, grass from the pasture). I skirted it myself. I’m a hand spinner as well as a shepherd. I dislike VM as much as the next spinner…in fact, maybe more so. I get a little ruthless about skirting and removing VM so you are only getting nice wool with Point of View Farm fleeces. It weighs 2 pounds 10.3 ounces.

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 Pacific 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 photos of it I took while it was on the skirting table. Both sides and all angles are pictured.  We love lots of photos.  No surprises here.  Full disclosure and transparency is the name of our game in all we do at this farm.  Ask us anything.  We are happy to give our Point of View.  See what I did there?  I know….a bit too much.  It’s the end of the day.  Lacey is Black Rose’s daughter .  If she lives up to being as good a fleece producer as her dam we will be over the moon.  I’d say she is off to a good start.

Lacey was born at Point of View Farm in 2021. A pandemic lamb!  She didn’t know the troubles of the world.  Here at POV Farm all our flock members always lead a biosecure life.  No heading to the movies for her.  The flock got even more hugging than usual.  Like you, we struggled.  Lamb hugs helped.   You may note on her fleece photos, she is referred to as 188.  This is her unique ear tag number here.

This is Lacey’s first fleece. Her technical color genetics are a black based agouti blue. She is registered as a black badgerface. In lay terms, that means she has both a color and a pattern genetically. The pattern (agouti blue) ‘makes’ portions of her brown fleece lighter, mostly the saddle area. Since this is the wool area you purchase when you buy a coated fleece from us much of what is in the bag is her lighter colored grey wool (and why is is labeled as so). If you look at the photo of her fleece with the edges rolled in, you will see there are the darker areas. Lamb fleeces, in general, are the softest and finest fleece a sheep will produce in their lifetime. They require care when processing due to that fineness.  They can yield such amazing soft yarn it is so worth it as far as we are concerned.