Baarack the sheep captured the world’s attention recently for looking like a gigantic ball of wool with a nose and legs. A construction worker found Baarack wandering the Australian bushland and knew ...

Unlike a goat or a horse, or any other livestock for that matter, sheep wool is much like human hair: it never stops growing (here’s what that looks like). While the main detriment for people with ...

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Raising sheep for wool is a fun and satisfying experience. The market for wool and wool-products continues to grow as people are eager to learn skills such as felting, spinning, rug-making, weaving, ...

Merino wool is a sustainable material when the sheep are treated well. Sheep Inc, short for Sheep Included, is transparent about its efforts to ensure their animals are: They allocate wearers a sheep ...

A sheep named Baarack received a much needed shearing after rescuers in Australia found the abandoned animal with more than 75 pounds of wool weighing it down. Edgar’s Mission Farm Sanctuary, an ...

THE letter under this title, by Prof. J. Cossar Ewart, in NATURE of Mar. 19, contains some observations so divergent from those we have made here that it seems desirable to contrast the two. He ...