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, ...

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 ...

CHARLESTON, SC (WCSC) - A sheep shearing demonstration will be held at Middleton Place on Saturday at the Plantation Stableyards. From 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., guests of the plantation will be invited to ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...