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<blockquote data-quote="crop/hail" data-source="post: 1326322" data-attributes="member: 24820"><p>thanks for all the reply's and thanks fence for the livestock weekly article. By the way, for those of you who dont subscribe to livestock weekly, YOU NEED TO!!!! Best danm livestock magazine availabe. Ill admit it is more for the southwestern states but has a lot of great articles every week. ok, i digress, anyway, no one has brought it up yet and here is the biggest draw for sheep to me: A good young ewe cost 150 to 250 on average. she will lamb 3 times in a 2 year period if you leave the bucks on em year round. the lambs bring 125 to 225 on average. she pays for herself with her first lambs, show me a cow in todays market that does that!!!! you can run 3-5 sheep for every 1 cow and they will eat weeds brush whatever. are they in some ways a P I A? yep they are but so are cattle in a lot of ways especially grain field stocker cattle like i mess with in the winter (doctoring sicks), im used to PIA stuff. </p><p></p><p>There is kind of a stigma with sheep among cattle people "range magots" or whatever and i used to be the same way. But i can tell you this, everyone that i know that has cattle and sheep will tell you that the sheep are always profitable while the cattle are not (always profitable). An old rancher told me that back in the droughts of the 50's and cheap cattle prices throughout the years that he "Always had cattle around so he could look like a rancher but the sheep always paid the bills"</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="crop/hail, post: 1326322, member: 24820"] thanks for all the reply's and thanks fence for the livestock weekly article. By the way, for those of you who dont subscribe to livestock weekly, YOU NEED TO!!!! Best danm livestock magazine availabe. Ill admit it is more for the southwestern states but has a lot of great articles every week. ok, i digress, anyway, no one has brought it up yet and here is the biggest draw for sheep to me: A good young ewe cost 150 to 250 on average. she will lamb 3 times in a 2 year period if you leave the bucks on em year round. the lambs bring 125 to 225 on average. she pays for herself with her first lambs, show me a cow in todays market that does that!!!! you can run 3-5 sheep for every 1 cow and they will eat weeds brush whatever. are they in some ways a P I A? yep they are but so are cattle in a lot of ways especially grain field stocker cattle like i mess with in the winter (doctoring sicks), im used to PIA stuff. There is kind of a stigma with sheep among cattle people "range magots" or whatever and i used to be the same way. But i can tell you this, everyone that i know that has cattle and sheep will tell you that the sheep are always profitable while the cattle are not (always profitable). An old rancher told me that back in the droughts of the 50's and cheap cattle prices throughout the years that he "Always had cattle around so he could look like a rancher but the sheep always paid the bills" [/QUOTE]
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