I am a fiber artist. I love knitting, crocheting, and dying and spinning wool. I also love the enormous benefits of wearing and using products made out of Merino wool here in the unforgiving cold of Alaskan winters. The highly valued and sought after lanolin in their wool can be used to make amazing skin products that have incredible effects! These bouncy, happy, hilarious animals are absolutely adorable as farmyard pets to raise solely for wool! However they can absolutely also be raised for their savory, tender meat as well. Merino is some of the most delicious lamb and mutton you have ever tasted!
**** Purebred, registered
Merino wool is a favorite because of its amazing ability to wick (or transport) away moisture, even in vapor form. It can absorb up to 30% of its own weight, without feeling wet, so you don't feel soggy when you sweat. Additionally, it has the wonderful ability to hold heat due to the curly structure of the wool. It can feel warm, even when soaked. On the flip side, when your body heats up, it causes the moisture in the wool to evaporate away and can actually cool your body when you are hot. The fibers are up to 8 times thinner than a human hair and many times thinner than almost all wools, which make it feel extremely soft - not scratchy and irritating like other ordinary wools. As if that is all not cool enough, bacteria cannot live in Merino wool due to the fatty acid lanolin which breaks down bacteria, as well as the wool's ability to wick moisture away creates a dry environment, which makes it difficult for bacteria to thrive. My herd provides me with beautiful, warm wool that is wonderful to work with when creating fiber arts projects. In addition, Merino sheep are extremely strong and cold hardy. They do very well in our Alaskan climate.
$1500 Per purebred, registered ewe lamb (Can be used for market breeding)
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$1500 Per purebred, registered ram lamb. (Can be used for market breeding)
$250 Per purebred, registered wether