Karakul sheep the terms for newborn lambs' and fetal lambs' pelts are used interchangeably. The newborn lambs have a tight, curly pattern of hair. The lambs must be under three days old when they are killed, or they will lose their black color and soft, tightly wound coils of fur. Dark colors are dominant and lambs often darken in color as they age. Fetal karakul lamb pelts are called broadtail, "Breitschwanz" (German), and "karakulcha". Fetal karakul lambs are harvested through miscarriages, induced early delivery or by killing the mother sheep and removing the fetus. Rather than killing healthy female sheep, farmers will
Karakul (Tajikistan) Karakul (Tajikistan) Karakul, Qarokul (Kyrgyz for "black lake", replacing the older Tajik name Siob) is a diameter lake within a impact crater. It is located in the Tajik National Park in the Pamir Mountains in Tajikistan. Karakul lies within a circular depression interpreted as an impact crater with a rim diameter of . The crater is relatively recent: its age is estimated as approximately 25 Ma, or less than 23 Ma, or probably from the Pliocene (5.3 to 2.6 Ma). But the Earth Impact Database (EID) also lists it as younger than 5 Ma. It is larger than the Eltanin