--- 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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