@[url=https://mstdn.social/users/rysiek]Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦[/url] because of the shortages of consumer goods in communist Europe, in the DDR they bred sheep that were suitable for both wool and meat production¹, with as fine a wool as suitable for the non-Spanish climate of Germany.
People in other places where Merino sheep don't thrive are looking for those rams to breed their own flocks.
For obvious survive-the-apocalypse-and-rebuild-things reasons.
¹ source²: I've skimmed https://whitecloversheepfarm.com/prl-articles/FarmingBackintheDDR.pdf , which was the first search result and I'm definitely going back to read the whole thing
² of course I care about sources for my shitposts!
Elena ``of Valhalla''
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