The Year of the Goat

Twice each year, South Texas ranchers round up their angora goats for shearing. The goats, which are rarely touched by humans, are corralled into pens, and shorn.

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Twice each year, South Texas ranchers round up their angora goats for shearing. The animals, which are rarely touched by humans, are corralled into pens, and shorn. The process takes roughly five minutes, after which the goats are released to its herd, and later that day, into the wild.

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