Lost Australian sheep yields 30 sweaters worth of fleece

[yuiyoshida]

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) -- A lost, overgrown sheep found in Australian scrubland was shorn for perhaps the first time on Thursday, yielding 40 kilograms (89 pounds) of wool -- the equivalent of 30 sweaters -- and shedding almost half his body weight.

Tammy Ven Dange, chief executive of the Canberra RSPCA, which rescued the wild, castrated merino ram dubbed Chris, said Thursday she hoped to register the fleece with the Guinness World Records. An official of the London-based organization was not immediately available for comment.

The fleece originally weighed in at 42 kilograms (93 pounds), but that included the weight of the wool bag.

The woolly coat dwarfs that of New Zealand's hermit ram dubbed Shrek, who spent six years hiding in caves to grow his ragged fleece that weighed 27 kilograms (60.5 pounds) when it was clipped in 2004. Shrek was often described as a record.

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SQueeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!! bigfuzzy!!!

[TexasTowelie]

1. Was there any sheep under all of that wool? nt

[Chellee]

2. Just nose and toes, from the looks of it. nt

[malaise]

3. Now that's a lot of wool

Damn!!

[fasttense]

4. Poor fellow, That had to be uncomfortable. I worry when I don't shear my ram after 12 months

Of course my sheep are hair sheep and they shed every year...except for this one ram.

[reformist2]

5. What funny animals.

It looks like it is saying to the shearers, "thank you for taking off my winter coat!!"

[SoapBox]

6. Holy moly...

Or is that Holy Wooly?

That's a lot of yarn.