Do you have huyi’s or suris? I have suris - MacGyver and Attaboy stock. My gals love cut-up baby carrots, and one, aptly named Bunny, will chase everyone away if I don’t separate her out for the treat because she thinks all carrots on the planet belong to her.
It’s ok to hold fiber over until you’re ready to pay mill prices, but if you do a little processing of at least the champions’ fiber yourself (and you can get the kids involved in most of it), you’ll have a marketable product for the gift stall you’ll build for farm days. (you) Wash, dry, and the kids turn the fiber into roving and package it. If you’d like, I can post some videos.
That would be wonderful.
We have all huacaya, not sure if I like the larger size of the suri.
We have processed by hand a little bit of fleece.
For the life of me, I can’t get all the vegetable matter out of the stuff no mater how much I pick. We did a little washing and carding etc, and that’s the end of it. None of us have the coordination to spin...yet!
I am determined. I think my roves are a little too dense...oh well, that’s the fun of it!! Play and learn. Some of the folks on YouTube doing their spinning are just amazing.