On a sunny spring day in early March, thousands of Western Slope sheep line up in a corral unknowingly waiting for their annual haircut. Herders gently prod the animals to follow one another up a ramp ...

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 ...

BUHL • With sweat dripping from his permanently tanned nose, Chase Cantrell leaned against the shearing shed. “I did 266 sheep on my best day,” said Cantrell, 25, of Buhl, who has been shearing sheep ...

BUHL, Idaho (AP) — With sweat dripping from his permanently tanned nose, Chase Cantrell leaned against the shearing shed. "I did 266 sheep on my best day," said Cantrell, 25, of Buhl, who has been ...

Katie McRose, the founder of the traveling animal shearing business Right Choice Shearing, remembers the first time she posted a TikTok video showing off her work. It was back in March of this year, ...

Dan Dawson, left, gives one-on-one instruction to student Duke Christner during the Oregon Sheep Growers Association shearing school in Roseburg. ROSEBURG, Ore. — After several years of work, applying ...

What makes a dream job? The chance to travel the world? A workplace in the great outdoors as opposed to a stuffy office? Honing a skill to a competition-worthy level? Sounds pretty good – which is why ...

DONNELLY, S.D. -- O'Donald "Don" Simonson is the first to admit he can't actually "see" every detail on a sheep anymore. After 71 years as a professional in sheep shearing, Simonson, now age 87, has ...

FAIRPOINT - He isn't an imposing figure, but with clippers in hand, Loren Opstedahl has turned sheep shearing into a 21-year career of championship seasons. Opstedahl, 37, began the 2009 shearing ...

Feedback mentions the Ig Nobel prize awarded for an Australian paper on the best surface for dragging sheep to be sheared (11 October). Sheep are dragged on their rumps, not with a rope round their ...