An overgrown sheep was relieved of an excess 77 lbs. of fleece after he was found roaming across Australia. The shaggy animal, since named Baarack by rescuers, was found near Lancefield in Victoria, ...

AUSTRALIA -- An Australian animal shelter sheared off a 78-pound fleece from a rescue sheep that had been roaming in the wild for several years, rescuers said. The overburdened sheep, named Baarack, ...

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A lost, overgrown sheep found in Australian scrubland was shorn for perhaps the first time on Thursday, yielding 40 kilograms (89 pounds) of wool — the equivalent of 30 ...

He’s a stud for sure. An Australian white ram broke records after selling for a whopping $240,000. Breeder Tattykeel sold the stud, smashing the meat sheep record set by the same sheep last year by ...

SYDNEY — Shaun the shaggy Australian sheep has at last been shorn smooth. But the woolly wanderer wasn’t the wooliest of all. The sheep apparently had been hiding for years on a farm on the island ...

The Australian government refused a request by an Israeli livestock exporter to send a ship carrying around 14,000 sheep and hundreds of cattle on a month-long voyage around Africa to Israel earlier ...

Thousands of sheep and cattle are stranded off the coast of Australia after their ship was turned back by violence in the Red Sea, raising concerns among animal welfare groups about conditions on the ...