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 ...

BOZEMAN – Standing over a squirming alpaca, Brian Denstedt sheared off its fleece while avoiding the animal’s kicks and sudden jerks. “You’re right over the top of them, you’re right in their armpits, ...

MONTARA — Alpacas are simple creatures. Feed them grass and they are happy. But try to shear them and you will get an earful. From the sound of it, there is nothing alpacas dislike more than shearing ...

UNITY, Maine (WABI) -You know that feeling after a fresh haircut? Or, to give up the heavy winter coat after a long winter? Well, that’s what a few dozen alpacas felt like Sunday! The Northern ...

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 ...

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 ...

POWELL - For Fandango the alpaca, a haircut is a pain in the neck. He whines. He fights. He spits green gunk. Yet now that it's through, he'll feel much better on hot summer days, free of around 10 ...

GOODE — On a chilly, damp Sunday, alpacas at A Goode View Alpaca Farm parted ways with their warm, thick fleece. When Goldmine, the first alpaca to undergo her annual shearing, was led out of the barn ...

Alpacas wait to be sheared at Alpacas of Montana Inc. in June. The annual shearing makes them more comfortable in the summer heat and gives owners marketable fleece to turn into clothing. BOB ...

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 ...

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 ...