WHY DOES BUFFALO HAIR LOOK "SHAGGY"? Big Buffalo  says: You wouldn't want to wear a heavy wool coat all summer would you? When spring gets here, we shed all the wool fur that covers most of our body. But we keep the long hair on our head, chin, legs, neck, mane, and the cape that covers our shoulders and hump We keep a little bit of light hair over our body, but the heavy stuff we rub off on trees or weeds. You will see it lying all over our pasture. Our skin tans to a deep dark brown, and you do not even miss seeing all that heavy hair. Sometimes the fur gets stuck to some of the light hair that we are keeping and doesn't fall off. It then hangs in long "pigtails" making us look shaggy until it finally falls off. When summer is over, we will grow new fur to keep us warm during the winter cold. We have eight times as many hairs as a cow, so we can stay warm even in the snow with our thick winter coats.     We know a lady who makes BEAUTIFUL clothes for people using the wool that we no longer need. Her name is Ruth Huffman. You can see some of the clothes she makes by going to her website at the bottom of this page. But don't click on the link to her website until you are through playing at the fun  farm. You could have trouble finding your way back to ourbuffalo.com. Ruth Huffman designs can be found at http://www.ruthhuffmandesigns.com/ BACK