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The Wool Industry

The Wool Industry. By Isabelle H. What is Wool?

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The Wool Industry

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  1. The Wool Industry By Isabelle H

  2. What is Wool? Wool is a textile fibre produced by animals such as sheep, angora rabbits, mohair goats and musk oxen. Wool is crimped and can stretch which makes it very different from hair or fur. The crimp in the wool makes it easier to spin because the fibres join together and the fabric holds more air to help with insulation.

  3. Properties of Wool One of wools many qualities is that it can absorb moisture almost one third of it’s own weight. Wool is also more resistant to heat than some other synthetic fibres. Wool does not melt when it is heated and it is self extinguishing. Because of its resistance to flame, wool is often used for carpets in aeroplanes and trains. Wool is also great for insulation. It keeps you cool when your hot and warm when your cold. Merino wool fibres are so fine they cause almost no itching which makes wool excellent for clothing and blankets, and dust mites which are the cause of a lot of allergies are more attracted to synthetic products.

  4. Where Do Sheep Live In Australia In Australia, sheep live in the dryer inland parts of Australia where they have sufficient water and feed. Prime lambs are in the Eastern Australian Sheep/Wheat Belt from Queensland to South Australia west of the Blue Mountains and the Great Dividing Range. Sheep are also grazed on the semi-arid central plains west of the Sheep/Wheat Belt. Some northern or coastal areas are too wet for sheep to live without diseases such as footrot and fleece rot. 2.4 million

  5. Environmental Sustainability Looking after the environment is very important no matter where you are or what you’re doing. Woolgrowers use a range of farming methods to keep our environment healthy for the farmers of the future.

  6. Planting Trees: Planting trees on a farm can help prevent soil erosion, encourage native wildlife and provide shelter for livestock. Holistic Farming: Holistic practitioners are farmers that look at their business on a whole (money, land, people) and decide what is best for them, and set goals for the future. Some benefits of holistic farming include protection from drought, preventing and reversing desertification and cleaner water supplies. Cell Grazing: Cell grazing is when sheep or cattle are moved from one small paddock to another every day, as opposed to leaving the livestock in one large grazing paddock for longer periods of time. Cell grazing lets the pasture grow back healthily and quickly before the sheep are put back in that paddock.

  7. Embryo Transfer & Artificial Insemination: Embryo transfer and artificial insemination are used to take the positive traits from a female or male sheep and breed them. Embryo transfer is when the embryo from one ewe is transferred into another. The embryo can be frozen and stored before given to another sheep. Artificial insemination is very similar to embryo transfer but instead using semen from a ram. By using these technologies sheep breeders can breed lambs of high quality without having to spend money on buying or transporting animals.

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