THERE ARE MORE THAN 12 MILLION SHEEP PERU, A MYSTICAL PLACE Peru is a mystical place with amazing landscapes that include the sea, coast, mangroves, desert, jungle and mountains. Peru has 84 from 117 total climates around the globe.

In the high mountains of the Peruvian Andes, there are peasant communities that have kept their ancient knowledge related to sheep’s breeding. The Tally-Hi method is being used for shearing livestock, which is fast and gentle with sheep, allowing shearing a great amount of wool in a short period. There are more than 12 million sheep in Peru, which produce more than 10 million kilos of wool per year. Most of such wool is high-quality Creole. Other breeds include: Corriedale, Merino and a Peruvian breed named Junín, which quality is better compared to Corriedale’s and similar to Merino’s.
According to the Peruvian Ministry of Agriculture (MINAGRI by its Peruvian acronyms), 80% of Junín wool vary within a range of 23-25 microns, and the weight of each fleece varies between 3 to 5.6 kilos. When grown up, male sheep achieve 74 kilos and female sheep 45 kilos as their live weight. Such livestock is fed with natural pasturelands, which provided uniformity to the wool quality.
This breed has very well adapted to highlands in the Peruvian Andes where they freely graze at more than 3,600 m.a.s.l. Peruvian Junín was classified and considered as a new breed by the University of South Dakota from the United States of America.
Other breeds that are in Peru are the following: Hampshire Down, Black Belly, ASSAF and other Peruvian breed named Asblack but mainly destined for human consumption.
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