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 ...

Two World shearing record attempts are set to be shorn in New Zealand next month, both in the heat of an inland Otago summer.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

His rams come from 1000km away and so does his classer. But it’s the length of the wool — and how quickly his sheep can grow it — that drives the business, run on a number of properties on the Eyre ...