I saw a post about a sheep that escaped owners/shearing for years and its wool was out of control. Have sheep ever existed in the wild without someone to shear them?
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Growing up, we had primitive sheep (Mouflon & American Blackbelly), and they shed their wool. We brushed it off of them, or collected hair bundles that they rubbed off on fencing or bushes.
Domestic sheep have been bred to not shed their wool, and they will continually grow wool until they die. Either the wool gets so cumbersome that they can’t escape predators and they’re eaten, or they die of heatstroke, or from infection as the uncared for wool’s weight damaged their skin to the point of tearing.
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