Carpet Master Sheep

Elliottdale sheep breed information.

Carpet master sheep.

Bloomberg reports that said sheep range anywhere from 500 000 to 1 million each. Rams can be horned and ewes are polled. Developed in in margaret river western australia from 8 different breeds over 25 years with special focus on non shearing good feet high fertility conformation constitution easily contained. The sheep stud industry mainly romney was coming under intense pressure from so called new breeds developed from crossbreeding which the traditional stud industry saw as mongrelising.

Carpet wool breeds are usually double coated with a coarse long outer coat for protection against the elements and a short finer undecoat. The breed is medium size uni colored and white. Berber carpet is a loop carpet invented by the berber people of north africa. The adult elliottdale sheep requires shearing twice a year.

The weight of mature elliottdale ram is 70 kg 155 lb. They are generally adapted to extreme environments. The fleece diameter is around 40 microns which is suitable for making a carpet. They produced light colored handwoven textiles featuring distinct woven knots loops as well as natural multi color flecks from the coat of the sheep from which they got the wool from which the carpets were produced.

The elliottdale is a carpet wool sheep which was developed at the elliott research station in tasmania. The fleece weighs about 6 kg which has a staple length of 120 to 200 mm. The carpetmaster sheep breed i ntroduction by dr clive dalton the 1970s were exciting times for animal breeders in new zealand. Most curious though are degeneres s flock of sheep designed by legendary sculpturist francois xavier lalanne.