I just ordered another 200 stickers for the Shave 'Em to Save 'Em challenge.
I hope that is enough. 
I wonder if that will get me though to the end of NH Sheep & Wool... We will see.
I have Horned Dorset fleeces, roving and yarn available. I have Jacob yarn (and roving if I can ever find it...but there will be plenty at festival in May) available. I have black raw Navajo Churro available.
Come NH Sheep & Wool, I will also have Tunis and Shetland roving.
Come VT Sheep & Wool the end of September, I will have Oxford roving and if I did not sell the Navajo Churro raw by the end of NH I will have that in roving as well.
That is 6 out of 15 of the breeds listed on the Livestock Conservancy site.

Shetland roving

I do not have a lot of Shetland roving left. I will have LOTS more and a LOT more colors in the fall when I am finished washing the fleeces. They will be dropped off with Sallie's Fen Fiber Mill at the NH Sheep & Wool Festival in May. I dropped off 50 pounds of wool, alpaca, and kid Mohair today to all be made into roving.
 The 3 lambs will be pure wool. There will be crimpy white wool blended with crimpy white alpaca. There will be pure white alpaca as well as pure black alpaca made into roving. There is a badger Icelandic fleece getting blended with a black and white Mohair fleece. This is one white and one black & white kid Mohair fleeces. And, more. All in all, I dropped off 7 contractor bags of fleece.

Now, I need to sell fleece and roving in order to pay what I owe. Fleece sales have paid all but $75 of what I owe Zeilinger Wool Company for the 3 BIG boxes I sent them Feb. 1st, and almost 1/2 of what I will owe Sallie.

On to the Shetland roving that I do have left.  All Shetland roving is $2.50/oz. I will break bumps into smaller amounts.

 The gray bump weighs 8.4 oz.

The yarn and shawlette are from the same gray.

SOLD
 The one ball of 'oatmeal' weighs 2 oz.

1 ball sold.
 The two balls in front of the bag are a 

light gray. They weigh 2 oz. each.

 The bag of white on the left weighs 1# 4.1 oz.
EDITED: when balled up this is actually a
pale, pale gray! When I get a bunch balled up
I will post them here.

The bag of light gray on the right weighs 1# 5.3 oz.

It is the same as the 2 2 oz. balls.

 

 The white batt is not something I had processed.

It is something I bought a few years ago, and has

been stored in my cedar closet. Compared to the 

roving made by Sallie's Fen Fiber Mill, this looks

a little choppy. I am sure in would needle felt well.

I took some of it and recarded it and blended it 

with white alpaca. It spun nicely!

What is left weighs 15.4 oz.

It has little gray hairs in it.

EDITED:I took off the outer 2 layers and it is much

better inside. It is not as smooth as Sallie's processing.

But, that is the nature of carding machines.

It should make no difference in the spinning if

you draft it out. I, personally, am a stripper.

I strip all roving lengthwise and then spin it.

None of this batch of white Shetland is pure white.

They are seem to have little gray or black hairs.

Sick!

We spent 5 hours in Concord Hospital's Emergency Department last night. 2 chest X-rays, 1/2 dozen vials of blood, and EKG a some kind of medieval torture device in the shape of a tiny Q-tip shoved up both nostrils... Just to be told that I have Influenza A and there is nothing they can do for me. It could be 2 weeks before I start feeling better and 4 weeks before I stop coughing....

Today is Thursday and I am just starting to feel a little human. I  will start filling orders in the next couple of days and letting y'all know what is happening.

Please continue to be patient with me as this sickness has really wiped me out!

The Livestock Conservancy Priority list for sheep

https://livestockconservancy.org/index.php/heritage/internal/conservation-priority-list#Sheep


I have Horned Dorset in fleece, roving and yarn. Shetland in fleece, roving and yarn. Jacob in yarn and roving. Tunis roving coming in time for NH Sheep & Wool. Somewhere there is a couple of Oxford fleeces, but if the customer we shear for regularly still has hers, that will be available raw at NH. If I find all the Oxford fleeces, I will send them with Zeilinger's to become roving for VT Sheep & Wool. I have raw black Navajo Churro that I am selling $5/lb.  

I have a shearing customer with Cotswolds in Warner. Send me an email in you are interested in any of the fleeces, roving or yarn that we have available at this time. eweifarm@msn.com

Continuing to de-stash fleeces

All of these fleeces are ones that I held back from selling as I thought I'd have to time to wash them myself and get them to the mill to be processed/or process myself. They all have some VM in them. I am taken as many pictures as I can to show any of the debris that might be found in the fleece. Quite a few also have muddy tips. A cold water soak will remove most, if not all, of the mud.

Email us at eweifarm@msn.com with your zip code and the fleece you are interested in. Prices do not include shipping.

PENDING
Jolly

Oxford/Romney lamb fleece

3 1/2"-5" staple

4#  $40

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PENDING
Romney cross

2# 9 oz.  $14

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Corriedale

5# 3 oz. $28

 Yes, it does have quite a bit of VM, but as you can from

the picture below with the yarn, and further below with 

the roving, the majority of it comes out in the processing.

 Yarn is 3 different shades of brown, 

and roving in a blend of all the browns.

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Jorja Dorset

Not for sale yet.

I've taken a handful of her fleece and done a couple

of cold water soaks to get rid of the mud, and one hot

water soak with Dawn to remove most of the lanolin

and hopefully the tiny pieces of hay seed. If it is to my

satisfaction, I will then offer her fleece for sale.

Her fleece has such a tight crimp that it is like Velcro.

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Babydoll

$5/lb. 1 pound minimum

 The grays are quite a bit shorter than the white

(different farms and different feeds),. But I am combing

the gray fleece with my Louet single row combs, and 

it is coming out beautifully. It has a great spring to it.

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PENDING
A Heinz 57 Mutt fleece

4# 6 oz. $25

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PENDING
Another slightly larger and cleaner

Romney cross

5# 10 oz. $45

I am fairly sure this is Harriet. Which would make

her a Dorset/Romney. Her father's fleece looks a LOT

like this, but he is a black chocolate while she is more 

of a milk chocolate.

 Can you see where the alpaca ends and the wool 

begins? 1# 3 oz. of matching alpaca $15. more with 

the fleece. $60 total.

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Icelandic

2# 5.2 oz. $13

Compared to the other fleeces listed here,

this one is on the coarse side. But, it would still

make a great shawl, or 3,  or great outerwear.

And, Icelandic felts beautifully.

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PENDING
Another mutt fleece. This one with a great LONG

staple, as well as some shorter fibers.

3# 8 oz. $18

This one was kept aside for a needle felting project

that did not happen. 

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PENDING
Midnight

Horned Dorset/Romney

4# 13 oz. $25

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Icelandic cross

4# 11 oz.  $28

This fleece is long on the sides, like an Icelandic

and short across the back with tight curls. 

I will post more fleeces later in the week. 

I am trying to take advantage of our nice weather

to get some of my other stashed fleeces washed.

I have a number that are going to the mill in the next 

few weeks to be processed into roving. Silver to black

adult mohair, white kid mohair, black and white kid

mohair as well as different wool that will be blended

with matching alpaca. I have a few bags of black alpaca

that need to be washed next to be sent out and made into roving.

Half of all these fleece sales go to grain and hay for the sheep.

The other half goes to the mill for processing. When the roving

or yarn is sold, it goes right back into the farm. This is the main

way our farm pays for itself. Lamb sales pay for property taxes.

Some day, hopefully, hay sales will pay for the hay equipment.

It is tough to be a farmer, but if we did not love it, 

we would not do it!! Lambs help make up for any heartache!