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Navajo-Churro sheep have a double coated fleece.  The outer coat is long and coarse.  The inner coat is soft and fine.  Navajo-Churro wool is very strong, durable and lustrous.  We shear once a year.  The staple length is typically 10-12 inches. 

Our raw wool fleeces have been skirted to remove excess debris.  They have not been washed.  There is still the natural grease with some dirt.  Some vegetal matter may be found in the fleece.  Our sheep are not coated.  They live a natural life style here in the Goose Lake Valley.

Fleece colors range from: White, Off-White, Red Mesa (shades of brown), Shades of Grey (Sliver, Light Grey and Dark Grey), Black, and Spotted.  Visit the wool roving page to see examples of fleece colors.  These are the natural wool colors so colors do vary.  White may have a few dark fibers.  Black and other dark colors may have a few lighter fibers.  The color may vary through an entire fleece.  The fleece color of a particular animal may change over it's lifetime.

Whole Raw Hogget (lamb) Fleeces Currently Available.  SOLD OUT until spring.

Whole Raw Adult Ewe Fleeces Currently Available.  SOLD OUT until spring.

Whole Raw Adult Ram Fleeces Currently Available.  SOLD OUT until spring.

Raw Fleece Washing Instructions:

We have found regular blue Dawn dish soap and warm water works well to wash a fleece.  We wash them by hand being careful not to matt or felt them and keep the locks loose.  This means gently washing/ dunking/ soaking them in soapy warm water and rinsing thoroughly without too much agitating or scrubbing, then let air dry.   Set up four buckets with warm water (comfortably hot to touch), do two washes and two rinses, rotate and change buckets as the water gets to dirty i.e. the first wash gets dumped, then the second wash becomes the first.  The new clean bucket becomes the last rinse and you keep doing this until your fleece is washed.   Wash a small towel size of fleece at a time.  It's better not to try and do the whole fleece at once.  Let air dry completely before carding or spinning.

*There are a few second quality raw wool fleeces available at reduced prices $3.00 per pound plus shipping.  Fleeces may be kempy or lightly cotted.  White and colored fleeces available.   It can be used for stuffing pillows, dog beds, felting, or what ever your creative mind comes up with.  Lightly cotted fleeces can be spun with additional processing.  Email or call for availability.

Payment Information:

Please contact us to place an order.   We will then email you an invoice that can be paid securely through PayPal at no additional cost.  A PayPal account is not required.

Personal checks also accepted drawn on U.S. Bank in U.S. Dollars.  Products will be shipped after the check clears the bank.

Small additional processing fee for international orders (1% of order total). 

We ship via the US Postal Service. 

Contact Us:

Ovie Ranch

Lakeview, Oregon

541-947-2008

churros@ovieranch.com

emails preferred