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actually , eta, 55 lbs of wool, when washed, will yeild about 40 lbs of usable yarn, so--now think about it, even when skiing, or out in vermonts endless winter, do you wear 10 lb sweaters?
40lbs of wool= 640 oz of wool, and a heavy sweater is about 40 oz of wool.. so 16 sweaters, is a more likely number, or about 10 full suits!
the news is old news on knitting BB's!
(55 lbs of wool will yeild about 10 lbs of lanolin/40pounds of fiber, and 5lbs of un-usable stuff, (twigs/dag/etc)
merino is a particulary fine wool, the fibers about 1/10 the diamiter of a human hair, curly enough to be easy to spin, but not too curly, and long (though shrek's is partiularly long!) fibers, that yeild fine strong 'thread'.. its great stuff to knit with, and knitters who no nothing about sheep, know merino wool!
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It's funny that the guy (Ranch owner John Perriam) says this.... ...the ram would have had "little food in winter" when snow piles up more than 6 feet deep, bitter winds blow across the mountain peaks, and grazing would only be possible when snow was blown off slopes. when Shrek has been on the lam and surviving on his own for six years.
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I had so hoped that merino and meringue were related Why? Had you wanted to make a key lamb pie?
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AS-- Yes, indeed.
Jackie-- 'Cause of the fluffiness in both.
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bel said "It's funny that the guy (Ranch owner John Perriam) says this.... ...the ram would have had "little food in winter" when snow piles up more than 6 feet deep, bitter winds blow across the mountain peaks, and grazing would only be possible when snow was blown off slopes. when Shrek has been on the lam and surviving on his own for six years."
Don't have ranches in NZ, bel. Them's "stations".
And Mr Perriam was right. There would have been precious little food for him in winter. Obviously enough, but it wouldn't have been great tucker ...
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Had you wanted to make a key lamb pie?
Can I get an amaretto off the rocks with that?
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Well, there's one fact-checker that should have his knuckles rapped. I copied "Ranch" straight from the article.
Two questions though,
1) Are all ranches called stations in NZ or only those with sheep?
2) Obviously enough, but it wouldn't have been great tucker ... What?? [confused-e]
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Was the article written by a New Zealander? Was it for a New Zealand audience?
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Obviously enough, but it wouldn't have been great tucker ... What?? [confused-e]Enough tucker (ie, food) to keep the poor lamb alive, but not the choicest selection. (Din't we just talk about the food-as-tucker thang? Somewhere.) 
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The article was most definitely not written by a New Zealander. It would be a page 3 job at the most in the Zild. People aren't as obsessed with sheep in NZ as people outside NZ think they are ...  I know Bendigo Station (the farm where Shrek exists) quite well. It's one of the areas used in the Great Easter Bunny Hunt. In winter there would be very little food (tucker) available to him, and he would be competing with a lot of ravenous rabbits for what little there is. He would have had to eat tussock shoots (not the best) and matagouri leaves (more usually eaten by goats). He would have been able to find grass on sunnier slopes during the winter, but not much. He's probably as thin as a rake underneath all that wool!
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