At the Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival, the "Sheep to Shawl" challenge is simultaneously cut-throat competitive and warm and fuzzy. Each team is made up of one sheep and five people: one shearer, three ...

LANCEFIELD, Australia - Rescuers in Australia saved an abandoned sheep who was weighed down with an astonishing 78 pounds of matted wool. Edgar's Mission, an animal sanctuary near Melbourne, came to ...

Breeding programme gives sheep a new hairstyle. You have full access to this article via your institution. American farmers are breeding wool-free sheep to bring down the cost of meat production.

Without their annual haircut, six residents of Buckley Homestead County Park may have died in the wool. But after their appointment with Lowell farmer Joe Reed, the sheep emerge about 10 pounds ...