PALMER — Karen Gardner keeps sheep to support her weaving habit. At Gardner's arrival in the family's Matanuska Colony barn on a windy night a few days before Thanksgiving, her flock comes running as ...

Here's a weird one for you: All the wool used to make mid to high-end suits comes from the descendants of just six sheep. It's like the evolutionary process, except for suits. Back in 1789, all the ...

The merino conjures up images of fine micron wool and wrinkles and an imposing concrete statue in the New South Wales city of Goulburn. But in the north of NSW poor prices for fine micron wool have ...

Editor's note: J. Kevin Graffagnino is executive director of the Vermont Historical Society. He is one of several guest writers filling in while Mark Bushnell takes a break from this column until July ...

Synonymous with the South Island high country, merino sheep may be farmed more widely as farmers are lured by high fine wool prices and genetic improvements. Merino woolgrower Bill Sutherland, of ...

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The sheep, whose overgrown coat has made it four to five times the size of a regular sheep, was discovered wandering on its own in a wooded area just outside Canberra You can save this article by ...

Under the National Livestock Mission, the central government approved funds to three states -- Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh and Jammu & Kashmir -- for transporting Merino breed of sheep from ...

Among the kangaroos and kookaburras, another creature trundled through the Australian bush. Hooves barely visible, eyes mostly covered, the animal was the size of a refrigerator, the color of dirty ...

I am a reader. I often have two books in process at the same time; one upstairs and one downstairs. I read a variety of genres so I don’t get them confused. Daniel Boone and Tim Conway, Ruth Bader ...