HOLLAND, MI — Beads of sweat cling to Timothy Wright’s hairline. The shearer from Byron Center delivers blow after blow after blow with his clippers. Then, he sets his challenger free and returns to ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... On a sunny spring day in early March, thousands of Western Slope sheep line up in a corral unknowingly waiting for their annual haircut. Herders gently prod ...

HIGHLAND COUNTY – As the winter turns to spring, thousands of Virginia wool sheep will get their annual “haircut." Sheep shearing, or the process of harvesting wool, is a centuries-old practice that ...

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 ...

Mary's little lamb may have had fleece as white as snow, but eventually it became a sheep and it's fleece had to go. The removal of the fleece is sure to make the ...

CANFIELD — Travis Johnson said the key to shearing sheep successfully is to get them seated on their rear so they will sit still. Johnson, of Malvern in Carroll County, spent four hours Saturday at ...

A sheep owned by Edith Kershner, fourth-generation sheep shearer, waits to be sheared at the 2019 Farm & Homestead Day organized by the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association. Sheep shearing ...

Hundreds of students, parents and teachers gathered at the Museum of Appalachia in Clinton on Friday for an annual day of sheep shearing, presented by the museum to help educate people about the ...