Rachel Lamont

But really, I'd have thought that a budget for animal husbandry expenses would be pegged to the head count of the precise animal -- like, if you've got a flock of sheep, one would expect to see a certain number of galleons per head per year to cover food and everything else. (They're all cared for by muggles, of course, and adding muggle labour to the expense calculation would be unnecessarily complex, but I'd think this number would include the food, any veterinary healing, and I suppose the shears if you're raising sheep for wool and ... I don't know. Bags for the wool. Bottles for the milk if you're keeping dairy cows. I guess part of what's frustrating is that this is absurdly far outside my area of expertise, but I can't think of any reason that, say, 500 cows would cost the same as 200 sheep, or however many it was.)