Lost Australian Sheep Yields 30 Sweaters Worth of Fleece

A lost, overgrown sheep found in Australian scrubland near Canberra was shorn for perhaps the first time on Thursday. The sheep named 'Chris' yielded 40 kilograms of wool - the equivalent of 32 sweaters, shedding almost half his body weight. Tammy Ven Dange, chief executive of the Canberra RSPCA (Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals), which rescued the sheep, said she hoped to register the fleece with the Guinness World Records. The most wool sheared from a sheep in a single shearing is 28.9 kilograms (63 pounds, 11 ounces) taken from a wild New Zealand merino dubbed Big Ben in January last year. The organisation also said the fleece was too long to be sold commercially. He hoped it would end up in a museum