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Anyone milking sheep south west ? just dont hear of many doing it , my cousin is looking for a supply , very established cheese maker . any excess can be mopped up by neighbouring national cheese maker .
This lot?There's a whole load at Shaftesbury way I suspect anyone milking at scale would have a contract already.
He's welcome to put some in here and pay me a fortune for the milk
The guy who writes in the farmer focus section in farmers weekly is about to start milking sheep in Hampshire . Think his name is rob - breeds a lot of romneys
This lot?
A friend of mine was in school with the son of a big sheep dairy unit near Shaftesbury, they had circa 2,000 ewes 14 years ago. I spoke to them about popping over to see them but didn’t get round to it at the time. Not Orchard Meadow though
HertfordshireThe guy who writes in the farmer focus section in farmers weekly is about to start milking sheep in Hampshire . Think his name is rob - breeds a lot of romneys
Long gone I thinkMere Park be one of the biggest in the UK? http://mereparkcreamery.co.uk/
Long gone I think
I spoke to them about share/contract farming the land. But they sounded like hard work, especially when they kept going on about their "very high expectations of animal welfare". I didn't think we would get on.Oh really, thats a shame. They had that fancy parlour but did feel like a bit of a vanity project and it wasn't going very well!
So do milking sheep get the lambs taken off them at birth and then fed on Lamlac ? Is that not expensive? Just curious
Have you seen the farm in NZ which milk red deer?I fenced a deer farm in Italy many years ago and the neighbour would come round and be amazed at our progress. We went round to look at his place and he was milking ewes by hand, straddled over them standing and milking into a bucket. Lambs were still with them. We thought it looked hard work and he said surely you do the same in England? He said he can get £90 worth of cheese from each ewe as well as rearing her lamb. He thought we must be mental not to do it.
Lots of different ways of doing things.