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Cashmere Goats

“Specializing in Red Cashmere”

Breeding Stock and Fiber

for Spinning and Weaving

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Foxmoor Farm is located in the hills above Silverton, Oregon.  We bought our first Cashmere goat in 1991.  Our goal is to produce colored cashmere goats with an even length and style of fiber for spinning and weaving.  Our goats have short guard hair and produce a naturally colored cashmere fiber that is 2 1/2 " long with coverage over the entire body.

 

American Cashmere Goats are descendants of feral dairy goats from Australia and native Spanish meat goats from Texas.  Breeders found that the goats grew a “cashmere” fiber similar to goats from the Middle East and China.  Developed and refined in large commercial herds in Australia and Tasmania, a few Australian goats were imported in 1980 to begin the cashmere industry in the U.S.A.

 

Cashmere goats are double coated fiber goats with an under down “cashmere” grown for warmth under harsher guard hair.  The colder the weather, the more cashmere fiber they produce.  The cashmere fiber grows from September to February.  Adult goats are smooth in appearance throughout the summer.  In December the entire herd is fully covered in their winter fiber.  [See the first two pictures above the text.]  The cashmere fiber is naturally shed in the Spring.  It is harvested by combing or shearing.

 

On our farm we hand comb and hand de-hair our cashmere fiber to ensure a quality fiber from start to finish.  Excess fiber is sold annually only at our booth at the Black Sheep Gathering in late June.   Each year we enter the fiber show at Oregon Flock and Fiber Festival in September.  Occasionally a show fleece is for sale.

 

For the last seven years we have been developing a “Red Cashmere” goat. The herd is varying shades of red with some tans and blacks.  The body color is a red-orange with darker legs, back ridge and tail.  The fiber color of our herd is almond, soft brown, yellow and apricot.  Most of our fiber is almond and only 1 in 4 of our goats produce the yellow and apricot fiber.

 

Young doelings, fiber wethers from the current year and occasionally an older buck or doe from our breeding herd are available for sale.  See the “Goats For Sale” page for current listings and pictures.

 

Farm visits are always welcome

but please call or e-mail us in advance.

 

[Website updated:  January, 2010]