Being into Cult of the Lamb while also having gone thru that period where YouTube was convinced I was obsessed with sheep and llama shearing has given me a weirdly specific need to incorporate sheep facts into my cotl headcanons. Like specifically about wool and whatnot.
Sheep grow wool in excess because they were bred selectively to grow a lot of it, and while domestic breeds don’t shed their wool there are some kinds of sheep that still do. Depending on what kind of sheep the lamb is, they may not need a full shear every year, though even sheep that do shed their wool will need shearing from time to time. If we’re imagining the Lamb as a sheep that does not shed their wool at all, I’d imagine that they’d need help with it. Thinking about how a culture made up of sheep people would be built, perhaps shearing would be done by one’s family or those close to them due to how difficult shearing oneself would be, with their first shear being in their preteen/teenage years and being considered special. A virgin shear in real life is considered to be the highest quality of wool a sheep will ever produce due to how the fibers form and change with more shearing, so perhaps it would be sacred in some way. Since there are no seasons in the cotl universe, shearing for summer weather wouldn’t be as important but would still be done annually to prevent matting and heat stress.
I wanna research wool and shearing more I like sheeps.
