A sheep isn’t just going to stand there and let you take its wool. Joe Domeier can attest to that. “Some sheep don’t cooperate,” he said. And holding them still is just one reason shearing a sheep is ...

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 ...

WANAKA (New Zealand) — Classical music, soft mattresses and the gentlest touch of a wool clipper: welcome to the New Zealand farm indulging what may be the world's most pampered sheep. Forget any ...

This is not your average beauty school. Your clients can be pretty cranky. Sometimes they’ll even walk out mid-haircut. And you have to hold them down -- with only your legs -- while wielding an ...

DELTA, Colo.—Thousands of baaing sheep shift in nervous eddies around a small, open trailer where the snicking sounds of hundreds of metal teeth signal it’s haircut time—at last. Shearing has marked a ...

NEW YORK -- The Queens County Farm Museum's annual Sheep Shearing Festival is on Saturday. With the weather getting warmer, it's time for the museum to give its sheep their much-needed spring trims.

A broken jaw playing country rugby league led farmer Ross Thompson to get serious about shearing sheep in the northern New South Wales town of Inverell. It was the 1990s when some 10,000 shearers ...

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 ...

NORRIS, Mont. - Spring time is sheep-shearing time, and a small group at Montana State University's Red Bluff Research Ranch east of Norris, are cutting away. But they're all first-timers, part of the ...