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Very nice, my dad is from Mexico and moved to the valley as a kid, my mami is what they call New Mexico Spanish, from the Santa Fe area. Tyler is a nice place.

How is it a downside? To me it sounds like more food. We would be taking the lambs off of the ewe almost immediately after they get their colostrum and giving them milk replacers for the rest of their life, unless we decide to keep a ewe-lamb as an addition to the flock.

Hello, I grew up in Harlingen, TX in the valley if you're familiar, moved to Santa Fe about 7 years ago. Thank you, we are so excited!

Thank you, I had read that they are extremely prolific breeders, which led me to believe that they must produce a good amount of milk (how else could they feed 4 lambs?) but I couldn't find much information about milking them.

Thanks for your reply. I've looked at Awassi and Assaf (75% Awassi/25% East Friesian breed from Palestine) but they don't seem to be widely availiable in the United States, how did you go about finding them and how much did you pay if you don't mind my asking? When you say that you haven't been...

My wife and I would like to get sheep for dairy (primary) and fleece, while processing the surplus lambs for meat. Goats have been recommended to us, and we have had goats, but my wife and I prefer really rich (high butterfat%) milk for drinking and making cheese, which excludes most goat breeds...