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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

YORK COUNTY — Dottie the Sheep kicked, thrashed and bleated through the process as her wool was sheared Saturday, stopping only briefly to nibble at a patch of grass. The sheep shearers bent and ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — Visitors are welcome baaaa-ck to the Museum of Appalachia on May 1 for the annual Sheep Shearing Day. A demonstration of fiber production will be held from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m ...

With the help of her farmer human, this sheep is taking a trip to the salon for a "little" hair trim, and we definitely think ...

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. ...