- Location
- Scottish Highlands
Thanks for all your help - I do want to buy some ewes, fatten their lambs and then sell the lambs on while keeping the ewes. What do I need to do with regards to EID, and would herdwicks be a good, low maintenance breed (I work a full time job?). Could I make any profit?
Please read what I’m writing. The very fact you are asking questions like this is a positive thing, but also demonstrates that you should not have custody of farm animals until you have that knowledge and experience already. Take a season and let someone else use your field - you will get almost as much pleasure, learn new skills from watching and helping and (most importantly) the animals will not suffer from your inabilities.
But no, in my (limited, I’ve had a few but didn’t get on with them and prefer other breeds) experience of Herdwicks they are not low maintenance, and you will most definitely lose money - at a rough guess a small number of thousands invested and most of it irrecoverable.