good for you if you can wring £27/ewe out of em, counting all the real costs.
And there's so many little things to account for....maintenance and depreciation on fences being one that sneaks up.
My horn heided ewes - counting every penny they cost- might yield £2/ewe in a fair year.
And they're the only mainstream livestock I can get over the line.
Mind....that profit is real profit, and sub free, and accounts for my time at a rate which I could hire in help.
So....i'll be needing 13,500 of em to keep up!
(crap, if I want them to compete with other ventures, I'll be needing a few more than that on top)
Maintenance of fences? Not my problem
Maybe the landowning/maintenance is the costly bit?