Picked up a new farm for trapping yesterday and the landowner has a small heard of Buffalo.About 20 or so and asked me if I knew of anyone who would be interseted in buying the wool from sheading animals. He says he picks it up buy the trash can full. Really soft yet very strong.Dosnt even have a smell to it.I told him id put it to the folks on trapperman. He just raises them for a hobby really,some meat to anyone who wants some.Seems a shame to toss such a potentially fine product.

Big cattle slaughter business, like Tyson and Excel have plants processing 10,000 head a week. They sell everything except some hair. Hair is left on the hides and sold to tanneries where it is disposed of. If they cant develop a market I doubt anyone can. Granted its not buffalo hair but I still doubt there is much interest.

If it's "wool" home spinners will buy it as long as it's reasonably clean, Then it's knitted into products.. Probably not a high volume enterprise, but someone will buy it. Needs to check out local spinner groups, craft forums, etc.

X2 I used to work with a lady that home spun wool of all types then she left to start her own business that supplies spinners and also sell yarn I will stop in and ask her what she thinks

Spinners are as diverse a group as trappers some just use wool other will try just about anything I have seen sweaters made out of dog hair, horse hair thistle fluff among others so I would say there should be a market for it if just for the noviltie

Wonder if it would work like sheep wool as a lure/bait holder in a dirt hole. Could sell it by the gallon ziploc like that.

There are "Fiber Arts" and "Trade Blanket" areas on this forum:

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I’ve seen musk ox, llama and alpaca wool harvested for spinning. I don’t know exactly what buffalo is like but I’m sure it could be useable. Farmers use street sweeper brushes mounted vertically like posts in the pens to harvest it.

mmmm buffalo is good eating. Been a dream of mine to have a heard of buffalo

Google buffalo wool and you will get a bunch of hits. It is definitely being used in the manufacture of wool products.

Ditto. The Quapaw tribe has built a facility to market the meat here... Good stuff.

Mike

I bet there is a market for Bison wool at some of the Mountain Man Rendezvous, 1820 Events and Mule Skinner conventions. The historical reanactors buy that kind of stuff up.

If I was rich, I would buy a huge amount of land, have it very well fenced and have herds of bison, elk and a few moose roaming around, mostly just to look at.

Keith

Funny you should say that. He said he mostly just enjoys sitting on his back porch watching them. I enjoyed watching them myself,listening to him talk about them.Impressive animal.

Any buffalo wings?

I have a pair of bison wool gloves, very warm. They claim the only wool warmer comes from muskox.

That's awesome. Hands down better than cow.
Are they reasonably priced?

I saw a vending machine in the Anchorage airport last week that had buffalo wool gloves, hats, and socks. Based on the asked gn price the buffalo wool might be valuable. I had read about buffalo wool being really warm, but haven’t tried it.

The Rendezvous guys/gals would buy it...sort out the clean dry wool and bag it.

Any wool I buy for trapping I want it just as it was sheared, not washed.