Shoulder.
Midrib.
He falls off in the breech by about two microns and crimp widens a bit.
Not perfect, but he's better than most.
Staple is about 1.25" right now, since we sheared the merinos in May. Brilliant lustre, excellent color, good density, high yield. He's a smaller-framed ram, not one of those big water buffalo sized outfits. Lamb fleece sheared off at @15 lbs and was @5" staple. Again, he was shorn late. Not perfect, but not bad. Rafter 7 and Mendenhall on John Jewell lines. Not too much neck or wrinkling. Sound on all four and put together fairly sharp. I'd like to see a little more muscularity on him. I'm sending these samples and from his lamb fleece to Texas A&M and will post results.
His dam was champion white finewool at Estes Park Wool Market 2008. (She's freakin awesome...) I plan to have embryos for sale out of her next year by this sire and/or this sire.
This ram is priced $550, unregistered.
yum!
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