Monday, February 08, 2010

Damn shit fuck shit fuck

Forces are conspiring against me. That is the only possible explanation.
Dark brown adult goats are few and far between. I do not know of anyone who has any at this time. They lighten up as they get older. The darkest brown would be kid mohair - first and second shearing. Because kid mohair fetches the highest prices, most breeders will shear them twice a year rather than just once a year to increase the amount earned on that goat. It costs a lot of money to buy a colored goat - 4 to 5 times as much as a white and the darker the mohair the more they cost - and then to house, feed, vaccinate, care for, etc. is also an investment in the animal. Carrying around eight plus pounds of mohair for a year is hard on the goat. It takes a year to produce the longer locks. Mohair producers do not earn enough money shearing just once a year for the longer locks to be worthwhile. Shearing every 6 months produces the 6" mohair. Colored angora goats are a premium goat with a market demand for 6" mohair. I am not familiar with any colored breeders shearing them just once a year. My friend Margaret did let some of her goats grow for a year just to see how it would work. She has a large commercial herd of white angoras. Hope my explanation helps.

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