| Type descriptors |
| Characteristic |
Code |
Range |
| Season/Age/Gender |
A |
1 = pre-lamb shorn / autumn
2 = post lamb shorn
3 = lambs
4 = shorn hogget
5 = woolly hogget
6 = rams / wethers
7 = overgrown
|
| Bulk |
B |
1 = =21cm³/g
2 = =22 - =24cm³/g
3 = =25 - =28cm³/g
4 = =28cm³/g
|
| Cotts |
C = co cotts |
1 = <15% - light
2 = >1-medium |
| Dag |
D |
1 = dag chip
2 = light
3 = medium
4 = heavy
ushed |
| Brisket / bellies |
E1 = brisket frib
E2 = contallies |
|
| Felty |
F |
|
| Mineral Contamination |
G1 = dust
G2 = pumice
G3 = sand
G4 = chats (peat)
G5 = raglan (red clay soil)
G6 = bush burn / blue
G7 = lime (tory) |
1 = light
2 = medium
heavy |
| Black Fibre |
I |
1 = few fibres - down
2 = few staples - suffolk
black |
| Mud |
J |
1 = light
2 = medium
heavy |
| Skirts |
K = preparatandard |
1 = presence of black sweaty
skirts
2 = yellow skirtings removable (Prep.)
3 = unskirll in |
| Lustre |
L |
L1 = present
L2 = medium
full |
| Medullation |
M |
1 = hairy
2 = contains kemps
3 = extensively medullated
4 = connecks |
| Water / Bacterial Stain |
N |
1 = light water stain - includes
pink tip
2 = medium water stain
3 = bactstain |
| Doggy / Blacktip |
O |
1 = doggy
2cktip |
| Pen stain |
P |
1 = light
2 = medium
heavy |
| Fibre Diameter Variability |
Q = variable vmicron |
= mixed diameter breed |
| Spinning Performance |
+ or - |
1-3 micron - visual difference fromrement |
| Length Variability |
R |
1 = mixed length
2 = very mength |
| Fibre Strength (tenderness) |
T |
1 = end point part tender
2 = end point tender
3 = middle part tender
4 = miender |
| Urine Stain |
U |
1 = light
2 = medium
heavy |
| Wet / Damaged / Skin Pieces / Dip |
W |
1 = present
2 = damaged
3 = skin pieces
4 = dip
5 = braddle |
| Creamy |
X |
1 = creamy
2 =eason |
| Colour (yellowness) |
Y |
1 = present
2 = high
3 = low brightness value
4 = Y-Z visually better 5 = Y-Z visuoorer |
| Vegetable Matter (VM) Type |
Z = burr / sub / horehound
S = grass seed / storksbill / bidi bidi
H = shive / trefoil / moil
istle |
1 = slight
2 = light
3 = medium
4 = hecarbo |
