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I think there is a bigger market for goat milk, as it is more easily  
digestible by more animals.


On Nov 8, 2008, at 11:10 AM, VAN DELL JORDAN wrote:

> --- 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
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