Jake, the sheep shearing crew boss, called me on Saturday evening, hoping to arrive at my barn on Monday morning. I already had a big day of commitments on Monday so we settled on Tuesday morning ...

At the Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village farm in New Gloucester, sheep are shorn once a year in the spring. This year, the farm has 73 sheep and it took most of a day to shear them all. Shaker Village, ...

In the first attempt on the record of 731 set by New Zealander Matthew Smith in England nine and half years ago, Goss claimed ...

Simon Goss completed the remarkable feat of shearing 732 strong wool ewes and pipped the previous record holder Matt Smith by ...

Editor's Note: This is an excerpt from WBUR's Saturday morning newsletter, The Weekender. If you like what you read and want it in your inbox, sign up here. It’s springtime, and just like us, animals ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A sheep shearing demonstration was held in the Ames Activity Pavilion at the National Western Stock Show on January 22, 2020. Bob Schroth, who runs annual ...

Facing incredible demand, Lincoln University Cooperative Extension shared the art of sheep shearing with a sold-out class Wednesday and Thursday. University extension specialists taught more than 20 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. AUSTRALIA (Reuters) — A wild and ailing ...

(Reuters) - A wild and ailing sheep found in a forest in Australia, named Baarack by rescuers, has yielded a fleece weighing more than 35 kilogrammes - nearly half the weight of an adult kangaroo - ...