Yes as otherwise it becomes too heavy, they can get weighed down when it gets wet, it can grow over their eyes, they can become water logged and the little lambs can't find their mums teats to drink, also there is an increased risk of flystrike.
Go up to a sheep and punch it, the wool should come off!
You let the sheep grow wool for a year and than shear it off with scissors or a razor specially designed to shear sheep. Some sheep shed their wool making the whole process of shearing unneeded, at least for that breed. You can just pull the fibers and it come off.
Wool that has just been shorn is still wool
Wool is an organic material that is sheared off of sheep.
No, you're better off shearing a llama with shears meant for sheep. Cows don't have wool that need to be sheared annually, sheep do.
Wool comes from sheep, the farmers shave it off and weave it together.
Then cut off from sheep then take it to the factories
The wool will remain on the animal until it is shorn off, the majority of sheep do not naturally shed their wool. Their are some breeds of sheep that do shed their fleece - Dorpers, Damaras etc but these sheep are bred for their meat qualities.
Sheep grow wool and it is shorn off. And no it doesn't hurt them.
The sheep and wool industry's Sheep /Wheat Zone stretches from inland Queensland south of around Longreach, through into the Murray Darling catchment into southern South Australia and across into south western Western Australia. See the related link for an accurate map of the sheep-for-wool areas.
we'll wouldn't you normally get it off of a sheep? it is where wool would be found because of the fact that farmers shave their sheep for that purpose... sometimes you get it from a dog you never know....
Wool is called fleece when it starts. You shear it off of a lamb or sheep. This is done once or twice a year, depending on the type of sheep and where they live. Shearing is just a short hair cut for the sheep, and if it is done correctly, it doesn't harm the sheep at all. After the fleece is cut off the sheep, it is washed, dried, combed out (carded), then spun into wool yarn or thread. White wool can be dyed to get many different colors. This can all be done by machines or by hand.