Types of wool for different areas of sheep’s body
In terms of different areas of sheep’s body, wool is divided into 14 groups:
1. Shoulder wool: The best wool in the sheep body is used as a standard sample for comparison.
2- Wool: After the wool shoulder is the best wool in the body of any sheep.
Lower neck wool: In terms of quality, the quality of the neck is less than the side wool.
4- Upper neck wool: Its lower quality than the lower neck wool.
5- Wool (Front): Wool is relatively good with minimal plant components.
6. Pollen Wool: Wool is relatively good with the least amount of vegetable components but with lower quality than the wool (front).
.7Side Wool (Rear): A relatively good wool with the least vegetable components but with a lower quality than the neck wool.
8- Wool: A wool that is of lower quality than the wool above.
9 – Wool Above Knee: Wool is thicker and shorter than other parts and is yellowish in color, impregnated with plant components and animal waste.
10. Abdominal wool: It is a large, heavy wool with vegetable components.
11. Knee-high fibers: It is a short, coarse-grained fiber with low staining.
12- Wool: Wool is very light and thick and has poor matte color.
13 – Head Hair: Fibers This section is very light, short, slim, inferior, and is the lowest type of fiber.
14. Leg hair fibers: Short, rough, rough fibers with low pigmentation and the lowest fibers on the sheep body.
In most parts of the world, such as Australia, the above classification is followed and even one person is responsible for taking care of the wool of the sheep so that the wool of the different parts is not mixed together until they are packaged in separate packages. But in our country the above classification is not done What is common in Iran is as follows:
1. White wool Grade 1: The total white wool of a sheep’s body, with the exception of the hand and foot wool.
2- Grade 2: White animal wool and hand wool and short fibers are in this category.
3. Chrysanthemum: Contains wools that are slightly darker than white.
4- Alvan wool: A mixture of brown, camel, gray wool and other colored wool.
5- Black wool: This group includes wools that are black in color.