Sheep Shearing Season

It's the time of year when the sheep at Rominger Brothers Farms get their wool sheared. Clockwise from upper left, wooly sheep are lined up to enter the sheep-shearing trailer. The shearing crew works quickly and efficiently to shear all the sheep. A freshly sheared Rambouillet sheep is ready to rejoin the flock. Ernie Fairchild, owner of the Buhl, Idaho-based Fairchildshearing LLC, and his crew travel throughout a half-dozen Western states to shear commercial sheep flocks and load up the fleeces for processing. The wool shorn from sheep at Rominger Brothers Farms will be milled at the Oregon-based Pendleton Woolen Mills and made into shirts, blankets and other wool products.