There are 2301 Merino lambs in southern NSW with a bit of a spring in their step as summer approaches. They’ve recently had ...

Onslow looked relaxed and comfortable while lying on his back on a platform Thursday inside Kahua Ranch’s shearing shed. The 8-year-old Romney ram, weighing more than 200 pounds, looked like he was in ...

Meet Chris. He's a sheep who had the fortune (or bad luck, depending on how you look at it) to elude shearers in Australia for about five years before he was finally captured earlier this week. Good ...

Nikki Lyons has set a world record for the most merino lambs shorn by a female in nine hours.  She is the first female shearer to attempt the feat, meaning her tally of 502 lambs is a global benchmark ...

When we were shown this utterly shocking footage by PETA US, which sheds light on the - at best, careless; and at worst, hideously violent - realities of sheep shearing in America and Australia, we ...

Chris the Sheep set a Guinness World Record on Wednesday after officials determined the 90 pounds of wool removed from him was the most sheared from a sheep in a single shearing. Chris beat out Big ...

Australian authorities have rescued a wildly overgrown merino sheep and called in the country's leading shearer to give it an emergency trimming. The sheep, which the AFP reports is believed to have ...

New Zealanders were mourning the loss of the country’s most famous sheep Tuesday, a shaggy national icon named Shrek who was renowned for avoiding being shorn for years. Shrek captured the public’s ...

Ethan Harder competed in the Hamish Wills Memorial Quick Shear in Casuarina at the weekend, shearing a sheep in just 14.85 seconds.

BLACKFOOT – If you have a shirt, sweater, or other garment made by Pendleton Mills and the label says “Fine merino wool,” you could be wearing clothing made from wool grown right here in Bingham ...

+ Australia wins machine shearing and woolhandling tests. Canterbury blade shearers Tony Dobbs and Scott McKay held-up New Zealand’s end in a three-test Transtasman shearing sports series at the ...

A record-breaking New Zealand shearer and a South African who took to shearing after being ruled out of rugby by a severe injury are this week tackling what is the first World shearing record un South ...