About how much milk does a dairy sheep give?
The milk yield of dairy ewes will vary depending on the level and quality of dairy breeding, nutrition, management, weaning system and the time of year milking is started. Some WSDC farms with early winter lambing and day 1 weaning systems are reaching the 600-700 lb range per ewe. Other farms that are just getting started are near the 300-400 lb range. Farms practicing 30 day weaning and lambing later in the spring are experiencing yields of 200-300 lbs with lower input costs. If milking regular commercial ewes, expect small yields in the 120-180 lb range under ideal conditions. First crosses with dairy rams can yield 300 lbs under ideal conditions.
