Our Animals . . . Sheep and goats are shorn 2 times a year.
Shearing is necessary and benefits, rather than hurts the animal.
Angora goats lose their hair just as we do. At certain times they lose more than others and are helped a little by the goat's owner using a brush or pulling a little on the hair to remove small portions of it. Commercial breeding of these animals had bred much of their beautiful natural color out. It takes 2 generations to breed the black color back into the fleece.