Do You Milk Your Sheep?
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With so many sheep in Northern Ireland, it’s a surprise that sheep milk isn’t more widely available. Having said that I don’t think it’s available at all. Goats milk yes. Sheep milk no. Now why would that be? Is it too much trouble or what?
I’d like to make sheep milk yoghurt but since there’s no sheep milk to be had I have to buy the stuff ready made and imported from Greece of all places. Now I know they have a lot of sheep and goats in Greece but we have just as many here so there’s no excuse for the lack.
Mail order milk may not be so hot. Unpasteurised is fine by me. Have to heat the stuff to make yoghurt anyhow. If anyone has spied sheep milk for sale somewhere around the Ards vicinity, please let me know.
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Did I ever tell you I was brought up a farm up by the Londonderry/Tyrone border? ..
well .. we used to keep sheep .. and if they lost a lamb during lambing season, we had to milk them otherwise they used to get an infection and in extreme cases… they sometimes died..
It wasnt an easy job either !!!
Well I hope you warmed your hands up first!
In the mountains of Donegal it’s reported that men wearing green wellys can be seen…. (I’ll not go on, I’m sure you’ll guess what I’m thinking)
I thought that was just in Wales.
no milk today…..Herman……………………………..do you remember