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America’s Proud Farming Heritage: People Thrilled to Watch 2,500+ Sheep Streaming Down Idaho’s Largest Highway [VIDEO]

This stunning visual reminder of America’s proud farming heritage is nothing less than a spectacle, and people turn out in their hundreds to witness it: thousands of sheep streaming across Idaho state’s largest, most major north-south highway. The extraordinary event, captured via drone, looks even more magnificent from above. Documentary maker Steve Stuebner, 64, makes…


Sheep Not Sheared in 6 Years Loses 37 Pounds of Wool—And She Can’t Stop Smiling, Hopping Around

A neglected, lonely sheep who wasn’t sheared in her six years of life has been given her first shear—and her first friends—by an Illinois animal sanctuary. When Laura Johnson, founder and manager of Harmony Hill Farm Sanctuary (HHFS) in Oregon, Illinois, received a call from a community member about a neglected sheep, she reached out to…


Fun Photos: The Most Adorable Sea Slug That Looks Like a Sheep and Powers Itself Like a Plant

Most people aren’t fans of slugs until they encounter a “leaf sheep.” And this cartoonish sea slug is too cute to be real! These amazingly tiny creatures—just 0.2 to 0.4 inches long—found along the coasts of Japan, Indonesia, and the Philippines, have faces that look remarkably like cartoon sheep. They’ve also earned the nickname “leaf…


Fluffy Sheep Have Their Fleece Sheared Off on a Spring Day

It’s so satisfying to see the wool come off almost in one go. Very professional! (Video courtesy of Eduard Schwan) …


How an Oregon Sheep Ranch Is Carrying on the Heritage of American Wool—and Shepherding It Into the Future

At first glance, it’s just an ordinary tussock of grass. Shimmering, graceful, silver-gold grass, dancing lightly in the summer breeze—but grass nonetheless. Yet sheep rancher Jeanne Carver’s fond regard for this 18-inch tuft at Imperial Stock Ranch, outside Shaniko in north-central Oregon, illustrates an idea that she hopes will transform her unique corner of agriculture:…


VIDEO: Ultra-Talented Border Collies Herd 700 Sheep at Lightning Speed in Scotland—And Then Go Viral

A Scottish shepherd is sharing jaw-dropping footage of his highly trained border collies herding and penning the hundreds of sheep he tends to. Theirs is a symbiotic relationship; the dogs love what they do, and the shepherd could not tend his flock without them. Former dairy farmhand Sean Hannah, 27, moved away from his hometown…


Three-Year-Old Girl Helps Struggling Mama Sheep Deliver Her Lamb

There’s so much courage and compassion in a tiny body. Well done, Lilly! …


[Video] Lost Sheep Trapped in 57lb Fleece Saved From Death: ‘It Was Indeed the Hardest Rescue’

With its fleece weighing a staggering 57 pounds (26 kg), an abandoned sheep could barely move. As the hapless sheep wandered the Victorian outback of Australia, the parasite-laden wool would have eventually caused overheating and death. But the miserable existence of the sheep, whom her rescuers named Victoria, ended when she was saved by volunteers from…


PHOTOS: Toy-Like Blacknose Sheep’s Amazing Bond with Owners—’The Best Pets in the World’

The owner of an adorable flock of black-nosed sheep says the fluffy creatures are truly the best pets in the world. The photogenic flock has even gained a massive following on social media. April Higgins, 30, runs the BoPeep flock of rare Valais blacknose sheep in County Limerick, Ireland, with her fiancé, Alymer Power. She first became…


New South Wales Calls Urgently for Electronic Tagging of Sheep and Goats

The New South Wales (NSW) state government is proposing a more evolved electronic identification tagging system for sheep and goats with Australian agriculture ministers on July 20 amid concerns a foot and mouth disease (FMD) outbreak could wipe out parts of its agriculture sector. Currently, Australian cattle are able to be traced through electronic tagging…