Mr. Michael Crosse:

They are high-performing animals and need high intake to produce a high output. There is higher rainfall in the west and winters can be a bit more extreme so the sheep need to be in at night time. Like the dairy cow, on-off grazing can work really well. Regarding land type, they will not milk on top of a hill. If they do, it will have to be in a shed. The severity of the weather and the poor-quality feed would not be ideal. The midland region has good quality land. While that land might not be good enough for a herd of cows to walk across, it still grows very good grass for six months of the year. All those types of land are perfectly suitable for milking sheep.