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Finally well enough to start shearing. THis is the fleece of my first alpaca this year. THe person helping me is 6 foot 2 so you can get an idea of the amount of fleece here

btroje 9 May 22
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That's amazing!

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Are you gonna sell the fleece?

to anyone that wants it

@btroje you do know there is a substantial money market for Alpaca wool, right?

@Charlene sure!

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Oooo can I help?

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Fleece????.... Yikes !! ?????? You go girl !!!

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Wow.

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that's a mighty fleece, for sure! i wished i had this on me atm 😀

it is massive. I felt scared

@btroje 😀 it's freezing in australia!

@walklightly ah I forgot where you lived.you would probably like to nest in thisi fleece this time of year

@btroje, absolutely! i'm thinking full-time hibernation 😀

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How many is that? Cool.

that is one animal. that sexy naked beast in the photo

oops there is a photo series of me shearing the one animal that I posted later

@btroje This one, right? [agnostic.com]

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Wow! What do you do with it?

I felt and crochet and spin in a primitive way. I was building a house and just got the space to work with it so I have been hoarding it a long time

@btroje With a drop spindle?

@Nottheonlyone I have some drop spindles and a Navajo spindle but I have a spinning wheel called a Mach 3 Spinolution for when I get to that point. It will spin a thicker yarn with the coarser fleece I have and use it faster. I think it would take me to the end of my life to spin the amount of fleece I have with a drop spindle

@btroje I was wondering! Nice!

@btroje If you have this much from one animal, and it seems you have a lot of animals from the photo series, do you sell any of this?

@bingst people around here want me to give it to them but if someone wants to buy some I will sell it

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