Because cashmere is shorn from the undercoat, the yield per goat is small, requiring two cashmere goats to produce a single sweater. The wool produced by these special goats results in an ...

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What Is Cashmere? Cashmere is an incredibly soft and very warm animal fiber, and it’s not as abundant as other animal fibers, like sheep’s wool. Cashmere is shorn from the undercoat of cashmere ...

In cashmere goats, research has identified a KAP gene variant that is significantly associated with fleece weight and fibre curl, thereby influencing the harvested yield and fibre morphology [2].

A love of fiber art turned into a wool-raising experience. Rebecca Diwan gathers the wool at her Rochester sheep, goat farm - Agweek | #1 source for agriculture news, farming, markets ...