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[VAN DELL JORDAN <vdjor AT yahoo.com>]

--- On Sat, 11/8/08, Marie McHarry <mmcharry AT gmail.com> wrote:


> 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,The 
> 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

One thing I've considered as a way to make a small farm work is to raise 
sheep, or angora goats.  Make cheese and spin wool and make weavings to sell. 
 The breed selected would surely not be the best wool or best milkers but 
having 2 products might offset that.  Reason for doing cheese and weaving is 
to ad value over just selling the commodities.
Is there a market for milk from sheep dairies or would all that be used for 
making cheese?
Van Dell