Shady Side Farm in Holland hosted its annual open house event where 69 sheep were shorn in just over three hours using a ...

Irish shearers have excelled among the world’s elite shearers with Sean Dunne finishing second in the Golden Shears junior ...

And the claim of widespread abuse of sheep during shearing is incorrect. If People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals agents have seen severe abuse, then this would be an exception and should be ...

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 ...

My dad was a shearer and some of my uncles, of course, so it's in the blood for many of us. "So, exciting to have occasions ...

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 ...

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 ...

Staff Writer Two-year-old Devynn Martin had some words of advice for the timid sheep who was getting her first haircut. “It doesn’t hurt. Don’t worry. It doesn’t hurt,” the little blonde-haired girl ...

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 ...

Bouncing back from not a single win in either teams or individual events at the last championships in Scotland in 2023, the Shearing Sports New Zealand team’s historic treble of the machine shearing, ...

A shortage of skilled shearers threatens the welfare of Britain’s 30 million sheep, raising serious concerns for farmers ahead of the ...