Recent content by Whitby.2008

Just watching kiwi farmer on you tube. Just had His first draw of 100 spring lambs at 19kg deadweight average and coming back at 126 New Zealand dollars. current exchange rate roughly £61.00 a head. so same as £3.25 ish uk deadweight. He wasn’t happy with prices but surely they can’t...

Rough morning on the Yorkshire moors, heavy rain, wind just starting to pick up

Dunbia, 530 lamb

I believe £5.50 in England

In the Esk Valley we keep it simple. gimmer lamb, gimmer hogg (after new year), shearling (after 1st wool clip, 2 shear, 3 shear, etc

Never known it so bad, Middle of North Yorkshire moors 6 quads stolen from within 5 miles of us in last 3 weeks. Numerous others in wider area. Only bikes with trackers recovered, but all stolen heading into Cleveland. Don’t think Cleveland police are interested in crimes that happened in N Yorks.

Yes it did. I was prescribed AB’s Mine took about a fortnight to develop and burst out.

Had it for the first time last year. not pleasant

Had medicated deccox buckets for young lambs at grass for the last decade, positioned against fence behind half ring feeder so only lambs had access, got on really well using this system. Previous buckets Came from Scotmin or Dallas Keith, depending on who my rep was dealing with, this year...

Dunbia lose spec bonus on lambs above 22 kilos, which really kicks in the teeth when you send a 22.1 E3L

Really like the build quality of the swaledale snackers. Is anybody using a swaledale electric drop snacker behind a quad? Is the battery on the quad up to it? salesman is telling me that I should just get the manual version, and the electric version is more suitable and aimed at a utv? any...

Dunbia drop lamb price 10p to 455 To commence today. And lambs look a very nice trade (225 ish) live weight around the country today. Deadweight prices hardly seem enough

No it isn’t

I believe it was a new product to Bateman in early 2019, but yes it does look ver similar to the Ritchey.

Hi all Nearly done a deal on a new Bateman draftweigh with tru test suspension cell and Ezi weigh 5 display unit. Does anybody have any experience with said machine? Don’t know anybody locally with one and Can’t find any videos online? We sell 1000 lambs finished over the season and from July...