How are the sheep treated (animal welfare)?

Animal welfare is one of many reasons we source our wool from New Zealand. Their Animal Welfare Act 1999 governs how animals are treated and is enforced quite strictly. See the document here.

The very last clause, 59, was added a few years ago by the Wool Industry and you will see that it is a ban on mulesing. While mulesing was never really conducted in NZ it is now illegal.