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When it rains, why don't sheep shrink?

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A good question with an easy answer Sheep's fleece is totally saturated with it's own natural oil (when removed and sold to you in skin creams we call it LANOLINIf you took a pure wool sweater and soaked it in lanolin, then dried it and wore it until it needed washing, then washed it in rain water it would NOT shrinkHowever if you washed it in your machine the soap would first remove the lanolin, thus exposing the wool fibres to the waterThe fibres would then CLUSTER (draw together) and this, in simple terms, is shrinkingManufacturers, of course, can't sell you oil soaked garments but they can mix the wool with man made fibres so that the wool will not shrinkThey call it wool blendOr, (as is common in Germany) they can purposely shrink the wool fibres to maximum and then SPIN it into yarn and make sweaters and sox out of this pre-shrunk clothYou can then wash these without worry of shrinkingIf you ever visit a sheep farm be sure to look for the oldest sheep sheerer and shake hands with himHis hand will as soft as a young girl's because of the constant handling of the sheep's woolHope this answer is what you were looking forAs for DRUNK CHICKEN reporting you, I can't imagine his objection to a perfectly reasonable question which certainly deserves an answerI would like to hear Drunken Chicken's answer to the question, How do humming birds, who weigh less than an ounce manage to fly 3000 miles to migrate in the winter? (the answer is that these tiny birds hide themselves in the wings of sturdy ducks, who either don't mind or are unaware of the free passengersCute, huh?)

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