Re: Advice on sheep

> I'm thinking of some hens - is this a better idea (dare I ask)???

Just thinking about it, you could consider geese. If you want to keep
the grass cut they're pretty good: they graze rather than scrape and
forage like chickens do and you can pretend to be a livestock farmer by
selling them at Christmas for quite a lot of money! You can buy day old
growers for four or five quid and it won't cost you a lot to get them up
to size - plenty of grass and a bit of mixed corn. However, geese are
more prone to predator attack that chickens, in my experience.

If you haven't decided about the sheep yet, I have a cold shoulder of
mutton in the pantry at the moment and its delicious...
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