Carpet Master Sheep

The weight of mature elliottdale ram is 70 kg 155 lb.

Carpet master sheep.

They are generally adapted to extreme environments. Most curious though are degeneres s flock of sheep designed by legendary sculpturist francois xavier lalanne. The breed is medium size uni colored and white. Development of the breed commenced in 1963 when the csiro made available a ram which was the progeny of a new zealand drysdale ram and a merino border leicester cross ewe.

The adult elliottdale sheep requires shearing twice a year. Carpet wool sheep the coarsest grade of wool usually over 38 microns is used in the manufacture of carpets. The elliottdale is a carpet wool sheep which was developed at the elliott research station in tasmania. The carpetmaster sheep breed i ntroduction by dr clive dalton the 1970s were exciting times for animal breeders in new zealand.

Developed in in margaret river western australia from 8 different breeds over 25 years with special focus on non shearing good feet high fertility conformation constitution easily contained. Berber carpet is a loop carpet invented by the berber people of north africa. Beautiful stud ewes 100 shedding highly fertile meat sheep suitable to all climatic sheep regions. Carpet wool breeds are usually double coated with a coarse long outer coat for protection against the elements and a short finer undecoat.

They produced light colored handwoven textiles featuring distinct woven knots loops as well as natural multi color flecks from the coat of the sheep from which they got the wool from which the carpets were produced. Elliottdale sheep breed information. Rams can be horned and ewes are polled. The fleece diameter is around 40 microns which is suitable for making a carpet.