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Jane Glendenning returns to an old love
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Saturday, October 17, 2020 By Laura L. Valenti
Ozark Regional Stockyards • West Plains, MO • 12:30 pm (CT) “Where Good Angus Cattle and Great People Meet” Jane Glendenning returns to her love of sheep and fiber
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38 Bulls • 26 Fall Pairs • together, they had cattle Lot 11 6 Spring Pairs • 12 Bred Cows • 10 Bred Heifers • 7 Open Heifers Lot 87 & 88 and sheep. In the 1980s, Jane kept 60 head of mixed breed wool Check out: heartoftheozarksangus.com sheep while raising their sons, Jack and Jason, in rural Laclede for additional information or to request a sale book, contact sale manager: County, outside Lebanon, Mo. Missouri Angus Association Friends at Eldridge, Mo., made Julie Conover, General Manager • 734-260-8635 • julie@missouriangus.org her a spinning wheel and for nearly a decade, she enjoyed working Mark your calendar for our Spring Sale on Saturday, March 13, 2021! in the fiber arts. “And then I went to work for the post office as a rural mail carrier for 25 years,” she explained. “Jack worked for the Missouri Department of Conservation and ran the
ALWAYS STRIVING TO OFFER YOU cattle, but there just wasn’t time for the sheep anymore.” THE BEST SERVICE POSSIBLE After retiring from the post office, Jane has reconnected with Parts • Service • Sales • Family Owned • Local Company her past and is once again, enjoying life in fiber, which for her is also life with sheep. “I found the Whimsy Fiber Art Guild, a group of people who were Jane Glendenning of Lebanon, Mo., raises a spinning and teaching spinning mixed flock of wooled sheep at her family’s to others,” Jane said. “It re-kinfarm. She has even hosted a field day for dled an old interest. I’ve now acother fiber arts enthusiasts. quired three spinning wheels and we love to get together and talk about fibers, colors and spinning wheels.” “They have such beautiful soft wool and I And once again, she is raising mixed breed like mixing their wool,” Jane said. “I have sheep, including Shetlands, Border Leicester multi-colored sheep, including black, gray, and Blue-faced Leicester. silver and white. I like to stay with the earth “Some like the Shetlands, a primitive tones, the natural colors. They run from breed, and have not been bred up with other coarse to very fine, and of course, it varies breeds,” Jane said. depending on what you want to do with (417) 864-8511 Others, like the various Leicester breeds, trace back to it. I like to say, I take the wool from the sheep to my spinning wheel to my TOLL FREE (800) 884-2856 England and colonial America. George Washington was so taken knitting needles. It’s pretty labor-intensive, but I enjoy it. When people 6321 E. Farm Road 104 • Strafford, MO 2929 E. Blaine • Springfi eld, MO springfi eldtrailer.com with the various types, he mentioned them in several of his letters written more than a decade after Lebanon, Mo. complain that wool makes them itch, that is often from commercial products that have been the American Revolution. added to the wool somewhere 26 Ozarks Farm & Neighbor • www.ozarksfn.com SEPTEMBER 21, 2020
along the line. What I have is completely natural with no chemical agents added.”
Jane runs her sheep on approximately 60 acres of the family’s 300-acre farm, where Jack continues to raise 60 cow/calf pairs of Limousin and Limousin-cross cattle.
In March, Jane sponsored a field day at the Glendenning family farm as J Bar J Woolies, which includes wool, lambs and mixed bred sheep, she invited many of the others she’s met over the years who are interested in the fiber arts.
“Some, like me, stay with the natural colors and others, like to dye the wool to include all the colors. We had shearers here from Texas that day so the girls could pick out their fleeces while they were here,” she said.
“Wool was once a valuable, marketable product in the agricultural community, but not anymore. Wool doesn’t bring anything anymore unless you are in the fiber business, working with crafts. In some places, like in the Southwest, people still use wool for rugmaking, in a much bigger way. I just enjoy working with it and of course, working with the sheep and the lambs.”
She has about 18 ewes and has 21 lambs. Jane pays close attention to the health of her animals and vaccinates twice a year with CDT, an eight-way vaccine. She also de-worms seasonally.
“Overall, I have less trouble with parasites in the sheep than I did when I had goats in the past,” she explained. “The barber pole worm is the one you really have to watch out for. It’s a blood-sucking parasite so you check their FAMANCHA score, which is determined by eyelid color. They need to be pink. If they have turned pale or white, it indicates severe anemia and you can lose that animal in less than 24 hours.”
Sheep are supplmented with a lamb and ewe feed from Purina.
“I also separate the new mothers into a lambing jug, which is just a separate pen but it’s especially important for the ewes with triplets. I’ve seen them get confused and reject that third lamb if left on their own immediately out in the field. It’s just for the first couple of days until they get to know who’s who.”
After 53 years on the farm, Jane Glendenning is in a very real sense, right back where she started and enjoying every minute of it.
I like to say, I take the wool from the sheep to my spinning wheel to my “ knitting needles. It’s pretty labor-intensive but I really enjoy it. When people complain that wool makes them itch, that is often from commercial products that have been added to the wool, somewhere along the line. What I have is completely natural with no chemical agents added.”
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