I milked goats for years. The taste of the milk was excellent! Then we turned those alfalfa and grain fet does out on pasture and only 4 out of 12 gave drinkable milk. The milk some of those does made was survival food ONLY! That's part of why I love my sheep. Even on nasty bitter forage, the milk is sweet. I've been selecting for animals with larger teats...breeding for that by only keeping rams from ewes easy to hand milk. So many things to love about nice, shedding, friendly, tasty SHEEP!
What breed of sheep? Dairy only, or multi-purpose?
When I lived in Texas I got into hand spinning a bit. Bought a couple of goats that were dual purpose...kinda feral but beautiful. Black in summer but in the winter they were a beautiful smokey gray when the cashmere undercoat came in. But it's a bear to try to separate the cashmere undercoat from the guard hairs..similar to Llama. The funniest thing was I left the horns grow just so I could catch them as they ran by me lol. But then of course the horns would sometimes catch in the woven wire fence.
Size and the way the horns grew remind me if the Ibex in southern Israel.
Mixed breed animals. I have a lot of Katahdin in the flock, some dorper, east freisian, lacoun, St Croix. The hair sheep have mild tasting meat without the lanolin taste in the fat. They are outstanding eating making great sausage, hot dogs, roasts, or just grilled chops and ribs. The milk is so rich I get about a pound of cheese for every HALF gallon set. Sheep milk in my coffee has undone my weight loss efforts before. Lol
)Darn. I'm still trying to coordinate getting land, otherwise I would have been interested.
