Mr. Michael Crosse:

The lamb plays a very important part in the role of milking sheep. In Ireland, we have a natural winter period and, in December and January, the sheep are indoors in a lot of cases. While the sheep are indoors, they rear their lambs for 30 days and, during this period, the lamb starts to eat concentrates and is naturally and simply weaned from the mother. The lamb contributes, provided we are lambing early in the season-----