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 ...

Over 20,000 people are expected to descend on Mountbellew Mart in Co Galway over the weekend, as this year's All-Ireland and All-Nations Sheep Shearing Championships kicked off. Competitors from New ...

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GENESEE TOWNSHIP, Michigan — Last year, 16 professionals competed in the first national sheep shearing contest to be held in Genesee County. Contest coordinator Deb Caryl of Davison Township is ...

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, ...

FARGO - Shepherds have some simple ways to capitalize on one of the best lamb and wool markets the American sheep industry has seen. One of them is shearing sheep. It can have tremendous impacts on ...

MANKATO — Joe Domeier vividly remembers the first time he sheared a sheep over 15 years ago, and it wasn’t pretty. “The very first sheep I sheared was my own and it was just brutal,” Domeier laughed. ...

In a 2000 study, researchers at the University of Southern Australia found that by every measurement taken, from sustained heart rate to oxygen consumption to calories burned, sheep shearing was ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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. KIRTLAND, Ohio (WJW) — Spring is the time of ...