Fromage ! (cheeses)

Yes, but we are not the Mongols (re mare's milk)

Sheep are quite little. Milking them is being greedy.

I don't quite see how it's being greedy, no different to milking cows or goats. Personally I don't like goat or sheep milk cheese, I find it has an unpleasant 'tang'.

Sheep have been milked for centuries. There are herds of sheep specially bred for milking. You're just being sentimental, jingl, though I suspect you don't baulk at tucking into a leg of lamb.

We saw flocks of very large (bigger than some goats) sheep in Italy which were milked in a dairy just behind the village church. They certainly didn't seem to mind!

No! Of course I don't "balk at eating roast lamb"!

I thought we were talking milking 'em. again.

And they haven't been milked round here for centuries.

Actually, you would have to take the newborn lambs away from their mothers, just like they do calves. Would be sad not to see lambs suckling from their mums in fields. Perhaps it is just a step too far - in the direction of factory farming. Ie get all you can out of the animal.

I really like tome de savoie, and that is quite low in fat.

And ewe's cheese. I used to buy it in Lincolnshire, as a producer there had a big stall at the market. It was quite like goat's cheese, and also came in hard and soft. In fact jings the original goats and sheep are so alike it's almost impossible to tell the difference. We bred sheep to produce more meat, they used to be like goats.