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To: ElkGroveDan

“Herds of the little ones for their wool”

Animals bred and kept for wool are sheared once or twice a year, depending on the weather and species-since llamas and alpacas are downright dangerous, compared with sheep and angora goats, I can only imagine what a bitch it would be to get a mammoth on that shearing table without getting kicked or charged...


27 posted on 07/05/2015 12:16:40 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: Texan5
I can only imagine what a bitch it would be to get a mammoth on that shearing table without getting kicked or charged...

That's why I suggested cloning the pygmy mammoths for the wool. If it turns out they are too ornery to flip over for a shearing I'm sure some kind of shearing stock could be designed for them.

29 posted on 07/06/2015 8:43:52 AM PDT by ElkGroveDan (My tagline is in the shop.)
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To: Texan5

A friend of mine weaves things from buffalo wool- the wool is not shorn from the animals, it is collected whent eh bison scratch their backs on barbed wire fences during the one time a year they shed their thick winter wool.


30 posted on 07/06/2015 9:13:01 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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