Originally Posted By: Cecil Baird1
I've seriously considered sheep for my back yard where there are three ponds and it's a pain to mow anyway. I've got to finish fencing it in though. And how much does it cost to feed the sheep in the winter when there is no grass? You know if a farmer was a real entrepenuer he's rent out sheep for the summer to people with big fenced in acreage.

I don't think I'd want a goat. I hear they eat everything in sight.

Cecil, at this latitude we figure 100 square bales of hay to overwinter a horse or a cow. A sheep would be a small fraction of that, I suppose. I'd find out for you, but there's a long standing Gallus family tradition to have nothing to do with sheep. We won't even wear those tall rubber boots.

Hay's gotten high, too. It fluctuates with the weather - too dry and it won't grow, too wet and it won't cure. Last Winter I knew folks who paid as high as $13 per square bale, whereas for years it has been $2 a bale.

"Live like you'll die tomorrow, but manage your grass like you'll live forever."
-S. M. Stirling
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