Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. About 200 alpacas and llamas from across the Gallatin and Paradise valleys gathered in Bozeman ...

Spend enough time around alpacas and you get used to their distinct noises, even the screeches some of them let out during a shearing. Brent Winslow has given many an alpaca a haircut over the years.

LAMAR • The alpacas at Arella Farm in Lamar got their yearly shearing this past Wednesday. The shearing, performed by Clean-Cut Shearing with shearingalpaca.com, is a process that both yields valuable ...

A 24-hour alpaca shearing event across the globe in Sydney, Australia, aims to have a big impact on mental health awareness and suicide prevention here in Montana. Over 500 alpacas will be sheared Nov ...

BEECH ISLAND — Fleece was flying during Saturday's midday hours on Dixie Clay Road, with retired Marine John Tolley playing host to his annual alpaca shearing session. Tolley, whose operation is known ...

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 ...

Summer means shearing season. All across the North Country, sheep, alpacas, and llamas are getting serious haircuts and losing their winter coats.... Jul 09, 2014 — Summer means shearing season. All ...

The herd of alpacas entered the shearing sheds with a year’s worth of wool on their backs. Each left cleanly shorn, much lighter and humming happily. In the back of the shed, Fox Wire Farm owner John ...