LESTER, Iowa — "Sheep shearers are in short supply in Australia just like here," says Alex Moser. Shearing is work that Moser enjoys, so a sheep shearing trip seemed like a good idea. His seven-week ...

An overgrown sheep was relieved of an excess 77 lbs. of fleece after he was found roaming across Australia. The shaggy animal, since named Baarack by rescuers, was found near Lancefield in Victoria, ...

A World shearing record is under way with four women in target early to average about 480 each in a South Otago woolshed.

(Reuters) - A wild and ailing sheep found in a forest in Australia, named Baarack by rescuers, has yielded a fleece weighing more than 35 kilogrammes - nearly half the weight of an adult kangaroo - ...