2020, Waiting on Lambs!

[Ridgetop]

Wool takes up so much room! I like Thistlebloom's idea! It won't change the shipping weight but maybe if you could compress it enough it would fit into one of those one price postal shipping boxes. On the other hand wool does take up a lot of room but once it is processed and the grease removed it is much lighter. Too bad about the Covid quarantine - you could have probably sold everything at a wool show. On the other hand, with the Covid quarantine maybe more people will be stuck at home spinning away! Hopefully you can sell all your fleeces.

 

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Re packing your fleeces, would it work to get those bags that you suck all the air out of with your vacuum?

They're not cheap.


I should of taken pics, I wrap them in tape after vacuuming out the air. Helps keep them from exploding the box...

Boxes arrived early.

Shipped 4 fleeces in two 12in cubed boxes today.

Waiting on the $30 fleece person.

Going to shear the sheep in February instead of April. Will compost most of them.

Need to figure out which fleeces are left & post new ads. Will try reposting the yarns, too, but cheaper.

 

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Wool takes up so much room! I like Thistlebloom's idea! It won't change the shipping weight but maybe if you could compress it enough it would fit into one of those one price postal shipping boxes. On the other hand wool does take up a lot of room but once it is processed and the grease removed it is much lighter. Too bad about the Covid quarantine - you could have probably sold everything at a wool show. On the other hand, with the Covid quarantine maybe more people will be stuck at home spinning away! Hopefully you can sell all your fleeces.

Yeah, but they aren't real cheap. Rather use a lot of tape instead. Which I forgot that I used to do before.

Got 7 & 8 pounds of fleeces into the two 12in cubed boxes. They had room, probably could of fit into 10in cubed boxes, but it wouldn't of changed the price, only weight would of changed it at that point.

 

[Larsen Poultry Ranch]

Have you tried the flat rate boxes? Or are those too small?

 

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Have you tried the flat rate boxes? Or are those too small?

Cost less to use my own box vs large flatrate box. It was about $10 less. Funny, huh?

 

[Larsen Poultry Ranch]

That seems odd, silly that it's that way. I'm glad you are finding buyers for the wool.

 

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Rams

Mich

Billy, Sebastian, Oreo, Krillin

Apostle

Majin

Most of the ewes.
I need to buy a couple more plastic gutters for feeding oats.

 

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Got a lot of sheep to feed?
Tired of paying way too much for the overpriced goat feeders?

No worries! DIY gutter feeders have your back!

Strong & flexible, easy to clean and they're lightweight! A 10 foot feeder!

☆What you'll need!
•1× 10ft gutter, $5.
•3× supports/hangers, $7.50.
•1× End cap pair, $8.50 or use ducktape, $0.
●Total for a 10ft sheep feeder, $21 or $12.50 if using ducktape caps.

Compare it to the 3ft goat feeder at $20-40, depending on seller. That's $60 to $120 for just 9ft of feeder!

 

[Ridgetop]

Love those feeders. I bet you could also made stands for them to be used inside the pasture as well as along the sides. I might try making shorter ones for individual pens. Those PVC rain gutters could easily be cut into shorter pieces to use inside the barn.

 

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Love those feeders. I bet you could also made stands for them to be used inside the pasture as well as along the sides. I might try making shorter ones for individual pens. Those PVC rain gutters could easily be cut into shorter pieces to use inside the barn.

I've been putting them against fencing to limit them trampling it. Sheep are slobs...lol