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["Marie McHarry" <mmcharry AT gmail.com>]

The US has a handful of sheep dairies but importing stock from Europe,
which has established sheep dairies, is difficult because of scrapie.
I'm not sure but there may be a ban on imports, although some may come
in from Canada. Sheep have a much shorter period of milk production
than goats and they produce a much smaller volume (though much higher
in milk solids). Some cheeses -- Roquefort is maybe the most famous --
are made only with sheep's milk.

Marie

On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 8:09 AM, bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com> wrote:
> Are you thinking of having milk "sheep", Gene?  I have never heard of 
> anyone having dairy "sheep".  I know they can produce plenty for their 
> lambs, but ...?  :-)