Shearling coats often contain insulated lining and are lightweight, warm, and stylish.
Contrary to misconceptions, shearling is not shorn wool; the term refers to the pelt of a yearling sheep that has been shorn only once by the process described above.
Shearlings are animals which have been shorn once.
The hill livestock compensatory allowances scheme rules have always required a reasonable element of shearlings in flocks qualifying for the highest rate of allowance.
There is little or no possibility of buying breeding ewes or shearlings, and in any case such sheep need to be acclimatised to the hills.
The number of breeding ewes and shearlings has increased by over 400,000.
They were all shearlings concentrated on a small patch of moorland in one part of my constituency.
Shearlings—sheep that have been sheared once—were fetching £60 in 1998, but now sell for £38.
