Shearing the animals on the floor or on a special tilt table also resulted in changed clinical parameters such as heart rate. These values remained at normal levels only when the animals were sheared ...

Alpacas are pretty mellow. Sure, put one up on the shearing table and she’ll probably start to freak out, but that’s a relatively painless procedure that’s over in a few minutes. Afterwards, each ...

Our job is shearing the sheep, making a product for the farmer to sell. On an average day, you just want to shear and keep ...

AUSTRALIA’S top wool handler, Queenslander Alex Schoff, had a plan for the trans-Tasman test at the national shearing and ...

World lamb shearing tally record holder and Hawke's Bay Dion King turned the tables on hometown hero and Golden Shears champion David Fagan to win a one-sheep speedshear and a $2000 prize for barely a ...

The road to Florence isn’t long when country music stars are in town. People flock from the East Valley to the Country Thunder music festival, spurring the question: What else is there to see in ...

Some microphone reshuffling was needed at the Gisborne Shearing and W Championships on Saturday, as the voices behind the commentary were also the ones competing in the ...

Alpacas, a species of New World camelids, have very thick wool. This requires them to be shorn regularly, just like sheep. But shearing is a source of stress for the animals. This has now been ...