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feed that they not only don't have to buy but get paid to take away! Such
shepherds provide a service and are fully responsible for setting up fences
and caring for their sheep. Mowing enterprises can run the gamut from tak-
ing half a dozen sheep around town for mowing people's yards to large-scale
projects. In Canada, California, and New Hampshire, there are big operations
in forests and parks and on land owned by public utility companies, cities, and
private timber companies. For example, Public Service of New Hampshire is
paying for sheep to maintain the area under its power lines; it fi gures sheep
are cheaper than humans crews and “greener” than chemical sprays.
Odds and Ends
There are a few more ideas for marketing that are worth mentioning. How
you choose them will depend on where you live, your personality, and your
interests.
Manure
Sheep manure is a potential source of income because it can be sold. Or you
may choose to use it in your own garden; it not only stimulates the crop
growth but also adds valuable humus to the soil, which chemical fertilizers
do not. You don't have to be modest about proclaiming the superiority of
sheep manure over that of other animals, as the accompanying USDA chart
will show.
Because sheep make use of ingested sulfur compounds to produce wool,
their manure does not have the unpleasant-smelling sulfi des found in cow
manure. It is also in separate pellets or in pellets that hold together in a clump
and thus is less messy in the garden. Sheep manure doesn't even need aging.
If you gather it for your own garden, take it fi rst from paths and places where
it does not help to fertilize the pasture. Since it contains many of the valuable
elements taken from the soil by the plants eaten by the sheep, it is convenient
that they spread a lot of it on the pasture. Its pelleted form causes it to fall in
CHEMICAL CONTENT OF SHEEP MANURE
POUNDS PER TON OF MANURE
TYPE OF MANURE
NITROGEN
PHOSPHORUS
POTASH
Sheep
20
9
17
Horse
11
6
13
Cow
9
6
8
 
 
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