Sheep Naturally Shed Wool

The more ancient species of sheep like the shetland, soay etc do shed their fleeces naturally and humans would just go around picking up the wool but once man started to selectively breed sheep for their fleeces they lost the ability to shed naturally and had to be shorn.. Shetlands naturally shed their wool during late spring/early summer. framed sheep with a fleece that varies from light to dark brown in color and is shed naturally in the summer. breed categories: primitive, short-tail, double-coated the norwegian spael sheep is named after the short, nearly wool-less tail (sp