A 24-hour alpaca shearing event across the globe in Sydney, Australia, aims to have a big impact on mental health awareness and suicide prevention here in Montana. Over 500 alpacas will be sheared Nov ...

Alpacas, a species of New World camelids, have very thick wool. This requires them to be shorn regularly, just like sheep. But shearing is a source of stress for the animals. This has now been ...

Spend enough time around alpacas and you get used to their distinct noises, even the screeches some of them let out during a shearing. Brent Winslow has given many an alpaca a haircut over the years.

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. About 200 alpacas and llamas from across the Gallatin and Paradise valleys gathered in Bozeman ...

They’re not going into the army, but these gentle giants all shared the same hairdo after the clippers were finished. Inside a cozy barn at the Sopris Alpaca Farm on Saturday, 60 alpacas were trimmed ...

LAMAR • The alpacas at Arella Farm in Lamar got their yearly shearing this past Wednesday. The shearing, performed by Clean-Cut Shearing with shearingalpaca.com, is a process that both yields valuable ...

GALCHUTT, N.D. - Low hums rumble across the Ten Seven Acres alpaca farm here on a hot afternoon in early May. Dirk and Jessie Monson's herd of 15 alpacas and one llama, plus another group of nine from ...

Humdinger Alpaca Shearing Festival: Open Farm Shearing Day is being held this Sunday, May 25 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Humdinger Alpaca Farm in Phillipsburg. People are invited to come out for the ...

The first alpaca shearing event in Washington state played out in a fluid factory-line effort by community members, farmers and a professional crew at Sawdust Hill Alpaca Farm on Friday. As soon as ...

Shearing the animals on the floor or on a special tilt table also resulted in changed clinical parameters such as heart rate. These values remained at normal levels only when the animals were sheared ...