Timberwood Farm | Cashemere Goats

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Meet our Cashmere Goats!

The ultra luxurious fiber known as Cashmere is actually the downy undercoat

produced by

goats.

In order to be considered 'Cashmere", the fiber cannot

exceed 19 microns in

diameter. The fleece

of the Cashmere goat consists of

both a downy undercoat and

coarser guard hairs. The

Cashmere fiber

used

by hand-spinners

is produced by removing

the guard hair from the downy

undercoat.

At present, there is no true breed of cashmere goat, one that will pass along

its desired

genetic

package the majority of the time. American breeders,

however, have made great

progress and

are now producing American grown

cashmere that meet the specified fiber

characteristics

expected of Cashmere

fiber.

At Timberwood Farm, we comb out the Cashmere fiber from our goats

instead of shearing

the

fleece. This helps to prevent the fleece from

coarsening and is in keeping with the

natural

shedding action of the goat

      The Cashmere Goats of Timberwood Farm.....


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