Preparation Steps for Wool Quality Improvement Step 2
Sort Sheep Before Shearing and Package Wool Separately
These categories are suggested guidelines for sorting and packaging wool separately at the producer level. Wool quality will vary within breed due to individual producer emphasis on wool.
Further separations based on wool quality (fiber diameter, length, degree of contamination, animal age, etc.) should occur within each category when volume, market opportunities and financial incentives exist.
Fine Wool Breeds
- American Cormo
- Booroola Merino
- Debouillet
- Delaine-Merino
- Rambouillet
Meat Breeds: White Face
- Cheviot
- Dorset
- Finnsheep
- Gulf Coast Native
- Montadale
- North Country Cheviot
- Texel
Meat Breeds: Non-White Face
- Clun Forest
- Hampshire
- Oxford
- Shropshire
- Southdown
- Suffolk
- Tunis
Double Coated and Hair Sheep Crosses
- Barbados Blackbelly
- California Red
- Dorper
- Icelandic
- Karakul
- Katahdin
- Navajo Churro
- Romanov
- St. Croix
Dual or General Purpose Breeds
- Brecknock Miniature
- Columbia
- Corriedale
- East Friesian
- Finnsheep
- Panama
- Polypay
- Targhee
Long Wool and Carpet Breeds
- Blue-Face Leicester
- Border Leicester
- Coopworth
- Cotswold
- Lincoln
- Perendale
- Romney
- Wensleydale