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  2. Sheepskin - Wikipedia

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    Sheepskin is used to produce sheepskin leather products [2] and soft wool-lined clothing or coverings, including gloves, hats, slippers, footstools, automotive seat covers, baby and knee rugs and pelts. Sheepskin numnahs, saddle pads, saddle seat covers, sheepskin horse boots, tack linings and girth tubes are also made and used in equestrianism ...

  3. Mulesing - Wikipedia

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    Mulesing (also known as 'live lamb cutting') is the removal of strips of wool-bearing skin from around the breech of a sheep to prevent the parasitic infection flystrike . [1] The wool around the buttocks can retain feces and urine, which attracts flies.

  4. Sheep shearing - Wikipedia

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    Sheep shearing is the process by which the woollen fleece of a sheep is cut off. The person who removes the sheep's wool is called a shearer . Typically each adult sheep is shorn once each year (depending upon dialect, a sheep may be said to have been "shorn", "sheared" or "shore" [in Australia]).

  5. Sheep - Wikipedia

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    Sheep (pl.: sheep) or domestic sheep ... is a skin disease leaving lesions that is transmitted through skin-to-skin contact. Cutaneous anthrax is also called ...

  6. Shearling - Wikipedia

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    Shearling is a skin from a recently shorn sheep or lamb that has been tanned and dressed with the wool left on. [1] It has a suede surface on one side and a clipped fur surface on the other. The suede side is usually worn outward. Real shearling breathes and is more flexible, much heavier and the fur is much denser than synthetic.

  7. List of types of fur - Wikipedia

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    The fur of sheep and lamb, often referred to as shearling or sheepskin, is a by-product of the meat and wool industry and is considered the most common type of fur and one of the most affordable. Not only is shearling incredibly durable, but is also affordable due to the production of sheep for other products.

  8. Waterskin - Wikipedia

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    Goat skin bottles used to transport water were typically found all throughout the Near East, including the Arabian Peninsula, where, in Yemen, it was common in the 18th century to see a slave carrying a waterskin on his back, or else 3 or 4 waterskins carried by donkey or by camel from the water source. [1]

  9. Hide (skin) - Wikipedia

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    A hide or skin is an animal skin treated for human use. The word "hide" is related to the German word Haut, which means skin.The industry defines hides as "skins" of large animals e.g. cow, buffalo; while skins refer to "skins" of smaller animals: goat, sheep, deer, pig, fish, alligator, snake, etc. Common commercial hides include leather from cattle and other livestock animals, buckskin ...