Help! Is this really true...KHW/wool?

Well I can't say for every sheep out there but I've been to many ranches that had sheep and we raised them ourselves. Personally we sheared in the spring and it wasn't cold. We never had a single sheep die from over exposure (and we had over 200) nor have I heard personally of a sheep dying from overexposure.

I was at every shearing and had tons of one on one contact with the sheep between shearings and I have NEVER EVER seen a maggot on the skin (or anywhere else) of a sheep! Occasionally I saw it in the food if the grain got wet but that was rare and we didn't feed it to the sheep because it would have killed them (and is gross).

The males are castrated but they are castrated in almost every form of livestock (however because the sheep are used for wool and not for meat they aren't killed at 6 months like so many other animals so you can at least feel good for not killing the poor things) because rams can be very agressive. We castrated by putting a rubber band around the top of the testicles and over a period of about a month ( ) the testicles would fall off. No knives etc used in this form of castration although I'm not saying it's better than with a scalpel and I also don't know if that's the way the general sheep raising community does it.

As for docking (cutting of the tails) it's done to keep the tails free of poop because the sheep just poop right on their long tails and admittedly it's done without anesthesia. We did it to almost all of our sheep but not all. It's not pretty, I don't advocate it but that's why (at least my understanding of why).

Now before anyone flames me - I didn't own this ranch, I simply worked there as a child to teen. Sheep were not my specialty - pigs were - but we were all very hands on with the animals.

Bottom line, the reason I feel good about using wool is because we are supporting these sheeps lives. Without the use of wool as a commodity they would be slaughtered for meat in my oppinion. Granted I want them to have lots of pasture, molasses filled grain, warm/dry sleeping environments and happy lives. I also like to support people with direct contact to the sheep like Pickle Pants.

I asked her about it and she said this:

her: i thought you were going to say that..Tracey and I talked about that And i told her when i worked the farms we did not do that to our sheep
her: BUT i knew people who did, and they did not have good quality wool.
me: yeah I havent ever heard that before
her: the thing is if you sheer them early you wont have good regrowth which hinders your wool production
her: OH i have seen it first hand BUT not all of them do that
her: like i knit with wool but i get it from a local person who spins it and they treat their sheep well

So she doesnt make anything wool to sell but does use "good" wool for her own personal use

I think they just added it to make a statement?