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. ...

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 ...

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, ...

GENESEE TOWNSHIP, Michigan — After a smoothly produced national sheep shearing contest, Deb Caryl of Davison Township is looking forward to the third annual event in 2012. “I am elated with the way it ...

The annual Wild-n-Wooly Sheep Shearing will take place rain or shine on Saturday, April 24, at Kelsey Creek Park, 410 130th Pl. SE. From 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., the community is invited to see sheep being ...

If you think shearing sheep is all about broken backs, aching muscles, poverty and general slavery, well think again. You are living in the past! Sheep shearing today, is all about fast living, big ...