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. ...

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, ...

Come to the Colonial Plantation Saturday and see their rare breed sheep lose their fleece. We will have Margaret Quinn, a master shearer, explain how to shear and then demonstrate by using hand shears ...

BROWNSVILLE, Ore. — Sheep shearing, according to veteran shearer Mike Cowdrey, isn’t for everybody. “It’s the kind of job that you either like doing or you want nothing to do with it,” he said. The ...

The Maryland Sheep Breeders Association Inc. hosted Sheep Shearing School on Friday at the Ridgely Thompson Farm in Westminster. “This is one of the oldest shearing schools in the nation,” said Aaron ...

Cup of coffee in hand, Jim Barnett takes a break from shearing Brian Iburg's sheep. They seem unaware of the change, however, as they mill around the barn. It's hard to hear over the bleating, which ...

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 ...

The art of sheep-shearing is one of those ancient relationships between humankind and its domestic animals. It’s a precise process demanding much prowess to avoid injury to the sheep or the shearer.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Candee Coxbill was not nervous for her debut at the National Western Stock Show, and it seemed unlikely that her 10-month-old lamb would have any problems ...