[kelly58]

If you bathed a lamb would that remove the lanolin from its wool ? 

[Hevxxx99]

Yes, if you used detergent. No, if you use plain water.  But why would you?

[verdifish]

I just put them in on a low heat low spin cycle.

[DavidandCollette]

Are they hand wash or. machine wash?

[kelly58]

People hose down their cattle  ,horses and sheep for taking to shows, blow dry them, groom them up , oil their feet, powder up the wool to make them more 'white'.
So why did my question bring out the comedians !
Ive heard more bizarre  questions being posed on here .

[harmony]

People hose down their cattle  ,horses and sheep for taking to shows, blow dry them, groom them up , oil their feet, powder up the wool to make them more 'white'.
So why did my question bring out the comedians !
Ive heard more bizarre  questions being posed on here .

Nobody said it was bizarre but I would think it a fairly unusual question and you didn't expand why you asked so Hevxxx99 asked a fair enough question in return.


As for "the comedians" coming out, isn't humour a good thing? I think was all given in good spirit and not meant to offend and I for one thought it rather funny.

[verdifish]

Why do you want to bathe the lamb?  An answer to this question will my be give us an idea how to answer your question? 

[beagh-suffolks]

when we bath for shows we just use plain water and purl dip

[Coximus]

not the best of ideas really - you can remove the lanolin and render them non-water proof for a few weeks, which means if it rains, they get wet and could get hypothermic.

Best not to bother unless your tidying up a bad case of scours, in which case just tend the scoured end.

[Hevxxx99]

I apologise if I sounded censorious - I was simply wondering, as Coximus suggested, if it was scouring or if there was some other reason where an alternative might be found.

At this time of year, I hesitate to bathe my (indoor) dogs and absolutely wouldn't bathe my (outdoor) ponies so I personally wouldn't wash a lamb now either.