Black Welsh

[SheepGirl]

 

[Oogiem]

Being so small, I doubt they will be good for commercial lamb production. They don't produce much of a fleece, but you can still sell it to a niche market and hopefully profit off of it. But, personally, I only see this breed being good for marketing breeding stock to other sheep producers.

We currently make the majority of income from our Black Welsh flock entirely from the meat. We sell mutton, not lamb, lambs are too small to profitably butcher. Less than 25% of our income is from breeding stock or pets and some years (like this one) we have zero breeding stock sales. Wool is also a very minor part, even with selling raw fleeces, roving, processed yarns and knit items we get less than 10% of income from wool.

I woudl say they are suitable for meat production in exclusively grass finished operations where their thriftyness makes them profitable.