If you're thinking about getting the family out of the city for Memorial Day, head out to the 10th annual Alpaca Shearing Day and Fiber Festival in Elgin. Kids and adults can shear the alpacas — ...

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 ...

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.

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The alpacas at Sopris Alpaca Farm are officially ready for summer after getting shorn last Thursday. The three-man shear crew with the company TopKnot took the stress away from owners Kim and Cory ...