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Alright color of wool. Wool color varies highly from breed to breed and from individual to
individual. One of the things about a sheep is blah, blah, blah black sheep is very unusual,
almost impossible to get a truly black wool. This lamb when it was born was much darker.
There are a couple of darker lambs behind me. But when this lamb was born it was dark
and it would have been called a black lamb. Not true. We refer to it as natural color.
This is probably the color of the ancestor of this particular breed of sheep. It was
much more like this but you can see it is sort of a grayish brown. It will fade, it
will bleach. It will do all kinds of things. Once we started breeding sheep, we very rapidly
bred for a white sheep. If you have a white wool, then you can make it any color you want.
You don't need to bleach the color out of the wool before you can color it when you
are making a garment. So we bred for the white sheep. White sheep would not have occurred
in the wild. Not good to be a white animal in the wild because it just makes you stick
out unless you happen to live near the poles. So being white was not a good thing. We breed
for white sheep so that we can dye their wool and make any color that we want. But this
is a natural colored sheep and that is a white sheep.