Carpet Master Sheep

The breed is medium size uni colored and white.

Carpet master sheep.

Elliottdale sheep breed information. The elliottdale is a carpet wool sheep which was developed at the elliott research station in tasmania. 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. Bloomberg reports that said sheep range anywhere from 500 000 to 1 million each.

They are generally adapted to extreme environments. The weight of mature elliottdale ram is 70 kg 155 lb. The adult elliottdale sheep requires shearing twice a year. Rams can be horned and ewes are polled.

Carpet wool sheep the coarsest grade of wool usually over 38 microns is used in the manufacture of carpets. Carpet wool breeds are usually double coated with a coarse long outer coat for protection against the elements and a short finer undecoat. The carpetmaster sheep breed i ntroduction by dr clive dalton the 1970s were exciting times for animal breeders in new zealand. Beautiful stud ewes 100 shedding highly fertile meat sheep suitable to all climatic sheep regions.

Berber carpet is a loop carpet invented by the berber people of north africa. 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. The sheep stud industry mainly romney was coming under intense pressure from so called new breeds developed from crossbreeding which the traditional stud industry saw as mongrelising. Most curious though are degeneres s flock of sheep designed by legendary sculpturist francois xavier lalanne.