Re: [AlpacaTalk] shearing table
In a message dated 10/7/07 3:12:47 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
alpacatalk@westwind
> year. If they're not
> show animals or show fleeces, it is possible to do it yourself, even
> with a pair of fiskars soft-touch scissors (the ones that are spring
> loaded).
This suggestion was mentioned a couple of times so I am curious. The only
Fiskars scissors I know about are the ones for little kids. Surely this in not
what you are referring to? Tho they are wonderful I cannot imagine cutting an
alpaca's hair with them!
I have my pacas for fiber. Tho I have yet to find the time to figure out
what to do with all the fiber I have gathered in these 7 yrs, I plan to :-).
Right now it is all stuffed into pillow cases and stacked all over my house
(which unfortunately is an old shady not air conditioned farmhouse and they bags of
fiber have picked up a mildew odor tho there is no noticeable mildew in the
fiber.....I am assuming/hoping that odor will wash out).
Is the fiber useful at all when it has been trimmed with scissors? I am not
trying to show my fleeces, I don't know enough about the fiber to do that, but
I do want to get a usable, sellable fiber off them.
One of the reasons I didn't shear this year (besides being broke) was to get
a longer coat for next year. They do not grow their coat all the way back out
in one year and so the fleeces were getting shorter and shorter it seemed
like. Of course had I known what a brutal summer it was going to be I would have
had them sheared irregardless.
Thanks, Janice
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