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	Fur - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A dog's fur usually consists of longer, stiffer, guard hairs—which can be straight, wiry, or wavy, and of various lengths, hiding a soft, short-haired undercoat.
		Fur comes from the coats of animals; the animal's coat may consist of short ground hair, long guard hair, and, in some cases, medium awn hair.
		Ground hair or underfur — the bottom layer consisting of wool hairs which tend to be shorter, flattened, curly and denser than the top layer.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fur (263 words)

	Furs in Brief
		What guard hair it does have is yellow with white tips, although the fur tends to be short and soft.
		The hair tends to be coarse, although the guard hairs are silky and the underfur is thick.
		The underfur is thick and brown, with the guard hair varying from dark brown to yellowish, with a white stripe along the sides.
	www.furcommission.com /Biology/furtypes.html (6385 words)

	Example: Hair (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The hair bulb is that portion of the follicle which actively produces the hair; the root sheath(s) surround it as it grows out.
		Typically guard hairs are long and pick up quite a bit of sebum from the sebaceous glands around the follicle, making them waterproof.
		The wool hairs (WH) beneath the guard hairs are shorter, denser, and often curled.
	education.vetmed.vt.edu /Curriculum/VM8054/Labs/Lab15/EXAMPLES/Exhair01.htm (367 words)

	Artificial fur having guard hair fibers and under fur fibers and a method for manufacturing the same - Patent 4415611
		An artificial fur according to claim 8, wherein the thickness of the most thickest portion of said pile fibers as guard hair is in a range of from 30 denier to 80 denier, while the thickness of said pile fibers forming said under fur is in a range between 0.5 and 10 denier.
		It is the interpretation of the inventors that in genuine fur, the root portion of the guard fibers which projects from the skin is thin, and because of the above-mentioned thinness of the guard hairs in the root portion thereof, the good quality of flutter and the elegant soft feel of the fur is achieved.
		The length of this staple fiber for creating the guard hair like pile fiber 2 must be chosen so as to satisfy the functional features of the pile fibers as the guard hairs of artificial fur produced from this pile cloth, which were described hereinbefore.
	www.freepatentsonline.com /4415611.html (7347 words)

	Coat Color Identification Guidelines (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Guard hairs are banded with the whitish cast extending substantially from the root and tipped with fl.
		The guard hair is banded with fl near the root and at the tip with a yellow or beige band at the center of the hair.
		The guard hair appears to be either monochrome (not banded) or banded with pale cream tinges at the root of an otherwise white hair.
	www.shca.org /shcahp5a.htm (499 words)

	The waved-2 (wa2) Mutation, Chromosome 11 - The Jackson Laboratory
		Guard hairs were round with regular cuticular scales at the proximal end, near the skin (Fig.
		The midshaft of the guard hairs had a longitudinal groove but the walls were asymmetrical and the diameter of the shaft was reduced (Fig.
		Hairs from a mixed patch revealed chimerism within as well as between hairs for both pigmentation and waving.
	jaxmice.jax.org /library/notes/460a.html (1588 words)

	Nature Trivia, Hair Structure (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Guard hairs of the opossum typically are white. The medulla is unbroken and fills most of the shaft. Intrusions from the cortex extend into the air-filled medulla (top photo). When air has not been removed from the medulla, air bubbles remain, resulting in a grayish appearance (lower photo).
		Hairs of human often are studied when they appear at scenes of crimes. There are several traits that can be compared to determine whether two hair samples match to evaluate whether they might have come from the same individual.
		Human hairs either have no medulla (upper photo) or a thin medulla which is amorphous - without a clear form - (lower photo). Because a hair shaft is round and thick, you must focus on the center of the shaft to be able to see the medulla, if present.
	www.hsu.edu /content.aspx?id=1843 (471 words)

	Chapter 8 PRODUCTION OF RABBIT SKINS AND HAIR FOR TEXTILES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The weight of the coat, and hence hair length and density, also depends on the season in which the hair develops: 40 g in summer, 60 g in autumn or in winter, which is acceptable given the skin area.
		Angora hair is unusually long owing to the prolongation of the active phase of the hair follicle cycle: the hair grows for approximately 14 weeks, whereas that of the rabbit with ordinary (short) hair grows at the same rate but for only five weeks.
		The base of the former hair is hydrolized, freeing the hair canal for the emergence of the new hair.
	www.fao.org /docrep/t1690e/t1690e0a.htm (7212 words)

	Crying Over Spilt Onions? - By Dr. Ian Davidson
		I remain uncertain as to what they are meant to guard against, but perhaps they are referred to as guards in much the same way as we refer to sentinels: they stand out boldly from the crowd of surrounding fibres, and are the fibres of first contact with the outside world, protecting the skin underneath.
		If one were to examine the guard hair of an impossibly fine and dense alpaca, it is theoretically possible that the guard hairs would be longer, coarser and straighter than the fibres of the undercoat, but still be non-medullated.
		Guard hair is medullated fibre grown by goats, and some camelid animals as a protective fibre for the fine underdown.
	www.alpacas.com /AlpacaLibrary/Html/SpiltOnions.htm (1830 words)

	classic llamas
		The guard hair on a classic llama may be either long or short; the wool fiber beneath is generally about two inches long on both types.
		Clues that he is not a classic llama (in his "after" photo) include fluffly neck underwool that stands out and obscures the guard hair instead of shedding off, fluffy wool on top of his forehead, and a matte, fluffy, "cotton candy" appearance to the surface of his fleece after grooming.
		Guard hair is noticeably less abundant than on classic llamas, especially on the rump; you'll never see a guanaco with the uniform and glossy classic coat.
	home.att.net /~lostcreekllamas/classic.html (5451 words)

	Fur
		Mammals are commonly covered with two types of hair, a thick soft underfur and a layer of longer coarser guard hair which forms a protective outer coat.
		The guard hair is somewhat oily and readily sheds water.
		When the underfur is fully grown, the guard hair stands on end, the pelt is said to be prime and ready to be harvested.
	www.newton.dep.anl.gov /natbltn/600-699/nb658.htm (673 words)

	GreyOwlCrafts
		Our roaches are Native-made, with a full row of porcupine guard hair going all around the base, and a second row of guard hair around the front (circular) section of the roach.
		A full row of porcupine guard hair going all around the base, and a second row of guard hair going around the front (circular) section of the roach, plus one outside row of deer hair.
		The deer hair on these have a rainbow effect of white, yellow, and red hair.
	www.greyowlcrafts.com /headdresses/hairroaches.htm (320 words)

	Llama Fiber, Fleece and Wool (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The second coat of crimpless guard hair allows moisture and debris to be shed.
		A single coated llama does not have the guard hairs that are typical of a double coated llama.
		Magnified cutaways show that llama fiber is a somewhat tubular hair with a medullated, or hollow, core, structurally different from the solid or coticated fiber of sheep and most other wool-bearing animals.
	www.mandmranch.com /fiberandwool.htm (421 words)

	Garrett Ranch - Pygora Goat Breed Standards
		The fleece color is usually lighter than the guard hair color.
		A second silky guard hair is also usually present.
		There is good separation between guard hair and fleece.
	garrettranch.com /breed_standards_5.cfm (213 words)

	Mount Airy Alpaca Company - Alpaca Fleece Quality
		Alpacas should have so little guard hair in their prime or blanket area that it is not noticeable when looking at the alpaca without actually pulling out a sample and looking very close up.
		Male alpacas who have a lot of noticeable guard hair in their prime or blanket area when they are only 2 or 3 years old should not be used for breeding.
		Females who have a lot of guard hair in the blanket at the age of 2 or 3 are usually bred anyway but only to males with no guard hair so that the baby alpacas produced will have better fleeces than their mothers.
	www.mountairyalpacas.com /fleece.html (485 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		During the molt the winter coat of thick underfur and the guard hair are shed and a new coat of underfur and guard hair develops.
		Fisher appear mostly brown with a round tipped tail in the summer while most of their new guard hair is shorter than the thin coat of brown underfur.
		When the fl tipped guard hair grows out in the fall the fisher appears to be mostly fl and also then has a distinctly pointed tail for it is the guard hair that makes the point.
	www.nhfishandwildlife.com /6_18_04_TRAPLINESPrimeFur.doc (873 words)

	American Legend™ Mink
		Density of the fur, length of guard hair, thickness and depth of underfur, richness and clarity of color, and suppleness of the leather, are all features that are evaluated for American Legend™ mink.
		The guard hair must have the density needed to protect the underfur and give the mink a lustrous appearance.
		The guard hair must present the perfect appearance and texture.
	www.americanlegend.com /alcmink.html (417 words)

	Dog Owner's Guide: What's Fur?
		The hair on some animals, particularly those traditionally trapped for their pelage, is known as fur, but it's all the same no matter the name.
		Hair is made of the protein keratin and dead epidermal or skin cells and it grows from follicles in the dermis or inner layer of the skin.
		Skin and hair color come from special cells in the skin that produce melanin according to Mischief's genetic code for color, and the amount of melanin is governed by the animal's genetic code, a complex genetic interaction of several pairs of genes that determine color, pattern, and distribution of white hairs on the body.
	www.canismajor.com /dog/fur.html (1535 words)

	ISU Department of Biological Sciences
		In support of this hypothesis, Champion and Robards (2000) reported that the cross-sectional area of secondary-type hair fibers in sheep, (analogous to underhairs of mink), increased during the summer and decreased during the winter.
		Both hair fiber diameter and cross-sectional area of I-type guard hairs were reduced in MEL-treated mink.
		There was no effect of HAL or MEL on guard hair (G and I) density or ellipticity, suggesting that PRL effects hair density primarily through its actions on underhair type follicles.
	www.isu.edu /~rosewill/Results.html (777 words)

	Hide and Seek - Judging English Angoras
		If a junior rabbit does not have enough guard hair, the chance of this animal growing into a prime finished senior is very slim.
		During the prime, underwool and guard hairs are about the same length with guard hair visible.
		When the wool is all underwool and guard hair disappears, the coat starts to slip.
	home.pacbell.net /bettychu/hideandseek.html (1655 words)

	Cashmere and Camel Hair Manufacturers Institute - Facts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The specialty animal hair fibers are collected during molting seasons when the animals naturally shed their hairs.
		The coarse hairs and down hairs of the cashmere goat and camel are separated by a mechanical process known as dehairing.
		Camel hair garments are worn by native desert travelers to protect them from the heat.
	www.cashmere.org /english/facts.htm (491 words)

	Discover The Amazing Way To Grow Hair
		The follicle stimulator is directed at retaining the hair on the head for a longer time by extending the growth stage of the hair cycle.
		Hair Vitamin Is designed to provide 100% of the DV (Daily Value) of vitamins, minerals and amino acids to maintain healthy hair.
		Tryptobond Guard literally attaches itself to the hair shaft, yet there is no fear of thinning or fine hair clients that their hair will appear limp.
	www.therapyg.com /about.php (539 words)

	Yak Fiber - Yampa Valley Yaks
		The outer coarse guard hair is good for braiding into ropes and halters or weaving into rugs, belts, and bags.
		I take the guard hair and card it, spin it worsted, ply it two or four times, and then braid it into halters and lead ropes using a Peruvian sling braiding technique and call it my "Yak Tack." I also card weave white, fl, and heather, but occasionally dye some red.
		The problem with dying the hair is that you have to use the white hair for the best results, and the white hair is always in the most limited supply.
	www.yampayaks.com /fiber.html (495 words)

	Aussiefly stocks Llama hair suitable for dubbing, short freshwater and long saltwater flies, all available for ...
		The guard hair usually grows faster, is hollow, courser and straighter than the undercoat.
		These guard hair tends to effect snow and rain and help to run off water, debris tends not stick to the guard hair.
		And for the Fly Tier, the Llama hair produces wonderful Dry Flies, with its hollow fiber, great streamer wings, super Dubbing, and Saltwater flies that start and finish with your imagination, the uses for these materials are endless.
	www.aussiefly.com.au /llama.htm (752 words)

	PELAGE
		Growth patterns and hair functions are combined to classify hair into the various types recognized on mammals.
		Guard hairs or overhairs are the most conspicuous hairs on most mammals.
		the white winter hairs over the dorsal parts of the animal, progressing downward until his entire pelage, except for his belly, is brown.
	www.bioweb.uncc.edu /biol4235-5235/PELAGE.htm (2260 words)

	Global Fly Fisher, Working Wonders with Woodchuck
		Incidentally, the underfur is about half the length of the guard hair and usually blends with the coloration of the first two bars.
		To prepare guard hair for the dry fly wings used in the Chuck Caddis and Poly Chuck Caddis, you will generally need to pull out the underfur.
		Like the Hair Wing Stonefly, and the Little Llama soft hackle, the wing on this old streamer combines guard hair and underfur, with seductive results.
	globalflyfisher.com /patterns/woodchuck (1973 words)

	WVTA - Grading
		These prime pelts have a heavy coat wit long guard hair, good underfur and no rips or tears.
		Large & XL I & II - Prime pelt with good guard hair and underfur having no damaged areas.
		Must be prime with ample guard hair and underfur.
	www.wvtrappers.com /grading.html (1114 words)

	ISU Department of Biological Sciences
		The fur of mink (Mustela vison) consists of an outer layer of large guard hairs and a dense inner layer of short, thin under hair fibers.
		During development, hair follicles form as bundles, in a trio-type arrangement (Fig 1), with all hairs of a bundle emerging through a common opening in the skin.
		Recently, (Krause et al., 2001) demonstrated that PRL terminated hair growth in rodent and human hair follicles, in vitro, supporting the hypothesis that the hormone might be involved in the anagen to telogen transition.
	www.isu.edu /~rosewill/INTRODUCTION.html (711 words)

	June 1999 Supplement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		But, in addition to the guard hair, there are also up to 15 under-hairs emerging from the same follicle with the guard hair (growing as a tiny tuft of hairs sprouting from the pore of the follicle).
		Her hair coat is quite similar to that of a Rottweiler, so we're using the Rottie as our gold standard.
		A few people guessed the total number of hairs on Tasha [15,485 per square inch on her back, times 2/3 to weight for her belly which has less hair, times 2107 sq.in total skin area (give us a call if you want to know how we figured that out) gives 21,751,263 hairs].
	www.brebt.com /nls/nl0699.html (734 words)

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