Alpacas are pretty mellow. Sure, put one up on the shearing table and she’ll probably start to freak out, but that’s a relatively painless procedure that’s over in a few minutes. Afterwards, each ...

Sometimes, being a researcher is repetitive and boring — all those lab tests and mice studies. And sometimes, being a researcher means shearing alpacas for science. If you’re not familiar with alpacas ...

Shearing the animals on the floor or on a special tilt table also resulted in changed clinical parameters such as heart rate. These values remained at normal levels only when the animals were sheared ...

GALCHUTT, N.D. - Low hums rumble across the Ten Seven Acres alpaca farm here on a hot afternoon in early May. Dirk and Jessie Monson's herd of 15 alpacas and one llama, plus another group of nine from ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Standing over a squirming alpaca, Brian Denstedt sheared off its fleece while avoiding the animal ...

Her morning included a pedicure, but for Zadie it was no day at the spa. Zadie is one of about 100 alpacas at Wild Hair Alpacas in Black Forest; the owners, Peter and Barbara Ziek, have been raising ...

SEQUIM — If you’re looking for unique diversion this weekend, head up the hill from Sequim for a celebration of fiber at the fourth annual Dyefeltorspin at the Happy Valley Alpaca Ranch, 4629 Happy ...

The strangest one, Robert Morrison says, was the woman who insisted on lying next to her alpacas while they were being sheared. The cuddling calmed them, she insisted. You're in the way and might get ...

Alpacas, a species of New World camelids, have very thick wool. This requires them to be shorn regularly, just like sheep. But shearing is a source of stress for the animals. This has now been ...

Alpacas, a species of New World camelids, have very thick wool. This requires them to be shorn regularly, just like sheep. But shearing is a source of stress for the animals. This has now been ...