Morning Beckons Farm was the site of the eighth annual North American Alpaca Shearing Contest, on June 24. The contests pit a two-person crew against a clock. They were judged on how fast they were ...

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 ...

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 ...

They’re not going into the army, but these gentle giants all shared the same hairdo after the clippers were finished. Inside a cozy barn at the Sopris Alpaca Farm on Saturday, 60 alpacas were trimmed ...

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 ...