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World Congress on Coloured Sheep
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In 1974, after Oregon's Willamette Valley black
sheep growers talked about developing a way to meet fellow
shepherds to exchange ideas and breeding stock, Sachiye Jones
founded the Black Sheep Newsletter. The
newsletter was to provide a medium where sheep growers could find
markets for their fleeces and a forum where experiences, ideas
and related information, could be exchanged with sheep growers on
the West Coast as well as throughout the country and eventually
overseas.
From the beginning the newsletter was meant to
be an open forum - reader written - providing useful dialogue for
both spinners and shepherds. The newsletter serves the spinner
and weaver by providing farm sources for a variety of
handspinning fleeces and by sharing tales of shepherding
sheep.
Over the years the contributors have not only been
shepherds and spinners sharing their experiences and knowledge,
but renowned scientists, geneticists and veterinarians, as well,
have offered their insights on the latest theories and
technologies.
Keeping with the wishes of the founder,
today the Black Sheep Newsletter is much the same-friendly,
almost family style, international forum, not a slick, overly
commercial publication.
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