LANCEFIELD, Australia - Rescuers in Australia saved an abandoned sheep who was weighed down with an astonishing 78 pounds of matted wool. Edgar's Mission, an animal sanctuary near Melbourne, came to ...

Breeding programme gives sheep a new hairstyle. You have full access to this article via your institution. American farmers are breeding wool-free sheep to bring down the cost of meat production.

Susan and Bill Nixon have been raising sheep in Braintree for 10 years. Each year, a New Hampshire man shears their sheep a month before spring lambing. And each year they book him a year in advance ...

Without their annual haircut, six residents of Buckley Homestead County Park may have died in the wool. But after their appointment with Lowell farmer Joe Reed, the sheep emerge about 10 pounds ...

It is not unusual for Pam Ahern to receive phone calls at all hours about distressed or injured farmed animals, but this call was a little different. Alex the sheep was found in a dire state with 40 ...

Spinning the black sheep from its feet to its rear, the shepherdess takes its chin in one hand and the clippers in another. Sometimes they put up with their 8-month shave, says Amy Wolf. "Sometimes ...

Crowds flock to see world title holders at Cork sheep shearing championships Denis O'Sullivan taking part in the Sheep Shearing and woll handling Championships at the 2011 Sheep and Wool festival in ...