In Your Hands
- Soft wool with lots of resilience
- Lofty and elastic
- Sweaters with lots of memory, cowls, next to skin garments
Fleece
- Heavy fleeces: 10-12lbs
- Staple 3-5″ length
- 22 – 24 microns
- Soft, yet durable with lots of bounce and memory
Temperament
- Good mothers and milkers, frequently have twins
- Large sheep and hornless
- Hardy and adaptable sheep, well suited to ranges of the West
- Dual purpose meat and fleece
History
- Breed developed in Dubois, Idaho in 1926
- Cross between Rambouillet, Columbia, and Corriedale
- Named for the Targhee National Forest where the flock grazed after being developed