WESTMINSTER, Md. (AP) -- A hundred years ago, most sheep shearers relied on scissor-like blades to cut the wool off of sheep, before motorized clippers took over as the primary method. "Blade shearing ...

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Emily Chamelin was still a teenager when she took up sheep shearing. She’d convinced her parents to let her raise a few sheep on the family dairy farm in Maryland, but finding someone to shear them ...

Lamb Jam is coming April 27 and 28 to Lake Metroparks Farmpark. Each day, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., attendees can help shear a sheep, spin wool, weave on a loom and learn to make felt. They also can join ...

Arguably the most famous blade shearer to have lived was Jackie Howe, who achieved the superhuman feat of shearing 321 sheep by hand in under eight hours back in 1892. While two South Australian men ...

It didn’t take visitors long to recognize who the stars of the weekend were at the Lake Metroparks Farmpark. It was all about the headline ewes. The new Lamb Jam is taking place April 29 and April 30.

There's something special about the sound of blade shears clicking away in a big old shearing shed. You're transported back to a time in Australia when wool was king and shearers had plenty of work.

Peter Heraty and James Hopkins from Mayo ready for action at the Golden Shears World Championships at the Royal Highland Show in Edinburgh. Joanne Devaney (Sligo) and Hazel Crowe (Mullingar, Westmeath ...