Animal welfare
Mohair from around twenty goats, each with its own name, raised on a human scale.
bilobila is not a factory farm: it is a small flock of angora goats — Sonia, Urrobi, Ursula and the rest — at the Gartzelai barn in Abaurrea Alta, about 1,000 metres up in the Navarrese Pyrenees. We know every one of them and look after them every day.
Shearing is part of their care. An angora goat's fleece never stops growing — about 2.5 cm a month — and it doesn't shed, so the goats have to be shorn. We do it twice a year, in spring and autumn. After shearing, each goat goes back to the flock and its mohair grows back.
No mulesing. That practice, so criticised in merino wool, is done to sheep, not to angora goats. Our mohair comes from animals that live in the flock year after year.
The mohair is processed in Castres (France) together with fleece from other small farms in the Eureca association, which guarantees local, high-quality mohair that respects living beings.
The best proof is to see it: we run farm visits so you can see how the goats live, stroke them and ask us anything you like.
Around twenty goats
Each with its own name, at the Gartzelai barn.
Two shearings a year
Spring and autumn: the fleece never stops growing.
Open doors
Guided farm visits, so you can see for yourself.