Well-cared for and "happy" sheep make the best wool, yarn experts who use rare-breeds have said. Becci and Markus Pamely-Bast ...

Well-cared for and "happy" sheep make the best wool, yarn experts who use rare-breeds have said. Becci and Markus Pamely-Bast founded a wool and hand-dyed yarn business seven years ago on a ...

A Belgian sheep that has not been sheared for five years cannot have its wool removed in case it catches pneumonia. The ...

Captain Henry Waterhouse and Lieutenant William Kent brought 26 merino sheep in 1797 from the Cape of Good Hope, in present-day South Africa, to Port Jackson, in the colony of New South Wales. Little ...

But a closer inspection reveals the sheep in their yard aren't wool-growing merinos. The family is transitioning away from traditional sheep breeds grown for their wool and into dorper sheep ...