Sheep With Long Hair

These hair sheep thrive in primitive settings and are thought to be the ancestor for all modern breeds of domestic sheep.

Sheep with long hair. Wild sheep such as the mouflon still do not have wooly coats. Like many hair sheep they are disease resistant and though they have more of a wooly hair they don t suffer from health issues related to true wooly sheep breeds. The hair sheep breeds make up a little more than 10 of the worlds population of sheep.

As hair sheep breeds have become more popular you will likely be able to find top breeders for sale in your area too. Close up of sheep with long hair wool of black and white color. Hair breeds have many positive traits that make them an ideal animal for small farms homesteads and of course larger commercial farms.

Historically all sheep were hair sheep like the mouflon which is a sub species of wild sheep. A sheep with long hair walking freely in the fields. Leather from hair sheep is finer and of a higher monetary value than the leather from wool breeds.

Hair sheep are types of breeds which produce hair instead of wool. If you have space to corral a few sheep you can fill the freezer with a healthy alternative to beef and chicken. Hair sheep are classified as any sheep that is either a pure hair sheep or a sheep that self sheds its hair in the spring.

It first started as a side hobby for myself but grew very quickly over those years as i acquired more sheep different breeds and worked on making a very nice hair sheep breed. All sheep are descended from mouflon wild sheep. The best of the breed are very tall and have long silky hair and drooping ears.

It is a long coarse hair with a layer of soft downy underneath. The wild ancestors of today s domestic sheep breeds had long coarse hair and a short downy undercoat which under domestication gradually became wool while the long hair disappeared. Brown curly sheep at the fence.