Good Living Guide to Keeping Sheep and Other Fiber Animals
Subtitle: Housing, Feeding, Shearing, Spinning, Dyeing, and More
Publisher: Good Books
Published: 2019
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781680994049
Copyright date: 2019
Subjects: Wool; Sheep
First sentence: Learning to raise wool animals is an age-old tradition.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Choosing Animals and Making a Plan; title: Part I: All About Sheep; title: Acquiring Sheep and Basic Care; title: Choosing and Buying Sheep; title: Preparing to Bring Home Sheep; title: Housing; title: Fending; title: Feeding; title: Sheep Health Care and Concerns; title: Vaccinations; title: Common Diseases; title: Sheep Management; title: Breeding Sheep; title: Keeping Health Records and Care Instructions; title: Part II: Goats, Llamas, and Alpacas, and Rabbits; title: Fiber Goats; title: What is Cashmere?; title: Choosing and Buying Goats; title: Horns or No Horns?; title: Feeding Fiber Goats; title: Housing and Fencing for Fiber Goats; title: Shearing a Fiber Goat; title: Preparing the Goat Fiber for Processing; title: Llamas and Alpacas; title: Llamas versus Alpacas; title: Housing and Feeding; title: Llama and Alpaca Health; title: Rabbits; title: Housing; title: Feeding; title: Part III: Shearing and Processing Fibers; title: Shearing and Preparing the Fleece; title: Shearing Day; title: Skirting; title: Scouring/Washing the Fleece; title: Carding and Combing; title: Hiring a Fiber Mill to Process Your Fleeces; title: Natural Dyes for Wool; title: Tools for Naturally Dyeing Homestead Wool; title: Mordants and Modifiers; title: Color Modifiers; title: Dye Recipes; title: Other Common Plant Dyes; title: Powdered Natural Dyes; title: Part IV: Working with Yarn; title: Spinning; title: Woolen versus Worsted Spinning; title: Plying or Plied Yarn; title: Yarn Weights; title: Yarn Tools; title: Knitting; title: Knitting Abbreviations; title: Crocheting; title: Crocheting Abbreviations; title: Weaving; title: Embroidery, Tapestry, and Crewelwork; title: Rug Making; title: Felting; title: Selling Your Farm-Raised Fleeces and Handmade Yarns and Products; title: Selling a Raw Fleece; title: Can Raising a Fiber Flock Be Profitable?; title: Selling on the Internet; title: Wool Pools; title: Sheep and Wool Festivals; title: Acknowledgments; title: Recommended Resources; title: Index