Sheep Suits sizes have two measurements. The first measurement is the length. The length is measured from the base of the neck just in front of the shoulders to the dock. If your sheep is in full fleece, like our lovely model Gretta is, and you want to cover all of the hand spinable wool, then you should include the wool in this measurement. If the cover is too long and it droops off the rear of the animal and the leg strap droops below the hock, then the blanket is too large and the sheep may step out of it.

The second measurement is the girth. The lowest part of the girth is measured along a line (as we like to say) from "armpit to armpit" . Imagine a line (like the one shown below in red) that is drawn from the front leg to the rear leg right about where the belly wool would start. If the cover came down any further on the sides, the leg strap would begin to droop down below the hock. This would make it very easy for a leg to come out of the leg strap or for the sheep to put both legs into the same strap. If the cover is too low in the front; it will begin to impede the walking motion of the sheep.

Remember, that as your sheep's wool grows throughout the year, you will need larger and larger blankets. Then when you shear them, you will wonder what happened to all of the sheep that was under that blanket. Our sheep go through about 4 to 5 different size blankets each year. Your sheep may go through more or less depending on the breed.