The government and the shearing industry have announced a $75,000 programme to improve animal welfare in the industry. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

The world record for the most Merino lambs shorn in eight hours by a team of five is now held by the Riverina Shearing Gang including Australians Lochie Robertson, Toby Walker and Nick Lehmann ...

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 ...

In some of the thatched granaries, sacks of shear remain stuffed, thanks to bad roads and lack of ready markets. Many farmers, here, had resorted to rearing sheep for wool to earn income, but poor ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Among the kangaroos and kookaburras, another creature trundled through the Australian bush. Hooves barely visible, eyes mostly covered, the animal was the size of a refrigerator, the color of dirty ...