Merino Mama, I don't have that page up anymore, after I sold them.  I can't remember offhand, but I'll check back in our records and see what we sold them for.  I remember that we sold them by the pound, and the price for a fleece depends on the skirting.  (You can sell it as is, first skirting, second skirting, etc, so it varies.  The more work you're willing to put into it before selling, the more you'll get in the price.) I'll be back with something more definite!

Hollie–a great place to look for sheep sales is in the WV Market Bulletin!

Merino Mama, checking back, I believe we sold our raw fleeces for about $6/pound, if I'm remembering correctly.  Like I said, how much you can sell it for varies by how much processing/work you put into it.  We sold ours as raw whole fleeces, with a first skirting, which means cutting the gunk out.  If you give it a second, finer, skirting, you could get a little more.  If you could card it and turn it into rovings (or, for hand-carding, they're called rolags) you can sell it for even more–but that's a lot of work.  If you have the time and want to do the work, that's worth some good money, though!

Just looked through the WV Market Bulletin at what people are selling fleeces for now, and I see raw fleeces for $8-14/pound, Jacob roving for $24/pound, batting $19/pound, Alpaca roving $3/ounce.

Really, you can set your own price and it's whatever the market will bear in your area, and it also depends on the breed of sheep.  The Alpaca fiber goes for way more.  There are just about a thousand variables!

Well, as long as you are raising them for their fleeces, it's not a big problem… any animals of either sex which you cannot keep, sell as young as possible and I'm sorry, but just don't think about it.  Plenty of farmers are more soft hearted than you may think, no matter how cold some sound, and they've perfected the best way to compartmentalize it all.  You cannot save every animal in the world, and that's just the facts of life.  Send them off and/or make a deal with someone who can handle the details of processing them, in return for something they would find valuable. 

We are carnivores after all, or, at least omnivores.  I hate dealing with this sort of thing too, even though I've had to over the years, I have found ways around, ways learned from other, older farmers, because part of being a farmer is giving respect to the land and the animals which provide for their families, it and so can anyone else.