Yes, because sheep can over-heat or get heat exhaustion in the spring and summer if their thick wool coats are not shaved off. Shearing sheep does not hurt the sheep in any way: the benefits actually vastly out weight the costs of sheering sheep.
fleece
A fleece is what the wool is called once it has been shorn from the sheep.
The fleece is the wool that the sheep is covered in.
Fleece is a word that rhymes with piece and refers to the wool of a sheep.
"Fleece" rhymes with "piece" and refers to the wool of a sheep.
Sheep provide the raw material for wool, which is fleece. People sheer the sheep, clean and card the fleece, then people spin the fleece into wool.
A fleece and a shorn sheep.
When you fleece a sheep you remove all of its wool leaving it with nothing more than its bare skin. Hence when you "fleece" a person you basically steal everything he has leaving him naked.
The hair of a sheep is referred to as wool. Fleece is the wool of a lamb.
A fleece is what the wool is called when it is shorn from a sheep.
sheep
Sheep.