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This from a young sheep is called lamb, and from an older sheep is called mutton.
What is meat?
100
If the animal is more than a year old, these are fused together.
What is the break joint?
100
Classifying fleeces according to fineness and length.
What is grading?
100
Newly born sheep.
What is a lamb?
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This is taken by shearing.
What is wool?
200
This lamb must be bottle-fed because it is orphaned.
What is a bummer lamb?
200
A breed not commonly used for wool.
What is a meat breed?
200
Name of the remaining portion of the tail after it has been cut off.
What is the dock?
300
The wool of one sheep.
What is fleece?
300
Sheep that naturally has heavy wool about the eyes and cheeks.
What is closed face?
300
Castrated male sheep.
What is a wether?
300
When a hide is taken from a slaughtered animal, and the wool is still attached.
What is a pelt?
400
Feta, Pecorino Romano, Roqueford are common forms of this from sheep.
What is cheese?
400
Feeding ewes extra feed before breeding.
What is flushing?
400
The wool's ability to stretch and return to it's regular length.
What is elasticity?
400
Slippers, mattress pads, and carseat covers are made of this.
What is shearling?
500
A grease-like substance that coats the sheep's wool, used in lotions.,
What is lanolin?
500
Converting loose, clean wool into continuous, untwisted strands.
What is carding?
500
The length of individual wool fibers.
What is staple length?
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Measured in microns.
What is fiber diameter?
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