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So much sheared wool gets discarded, burned or used for landfills nowadays, there are too few commercial buyers. And hobbyists are too few and far between.
From clicking the link, this isn’t sheared wool, it’s the skins of dead lambs who were killed and butchered for food. At that point I ducked out, but I presume they’re farming them, like American Bison being both farmed and endangered.
If you check the FAQ, it specifies that it’s sheered wool, as the sheep are not kept for meat or wool production but but for grassland maintenance.
They caveat that males need to be culled as only one can live in a herd, otherwise sheep get culled once they become unable to feed by themselves.
So the wool is a byproduct of sheep that would be kept anyway.
