Janet Garman provides an overview of wool-producing animals. Wool, fleece, and fiber can be harvested from a number of wool-yielding animals. These include sheep, goats, rabbits, camels, llamas, alpaca, bison, and yak. The fiber from bison, camels, and yak are the rare fibers. The fiber from the camelid family of animals is very soft and fine. It feels similar to alpaca and angora rabbit.
Source: Countryside Daily, April 10, 2018. (Link)
Raising wool-yielding animals is very rewarding, writes Garman. The wool fleece and fiber is renewable, year after year as long as, the animals remain healthy. Managing a small flock, tending to their needs and then harvesting the wool in the spring is hard work but it can become a rewarding and enriching activity with potential income.
INSIGHTS: The American Association of Small Ruminant Practitioners offers a search tool for finding a small ruminant veterinarian: Link. Also, the AASRP posts information on Facebook: Link.