- Location
- Galloway
In a big lot and keep them moving
They will still see it.In a big lot and keep them moving
You cant hide them.If one does manage to sneak through,the buyers pull it out and try and steal it for a tenner after the main lot.I've never been to a market that didn't have a grader touching all the lambs, nor to a market where fat lambs are sold through a ring. I've always had lambs weighed and penned on arrival, then stay in those pens until loaded onto the buyer's lorries. I always assumed selling through a ring was a Northern thing. How do you hide the lame one?
Cant like that was a good market for welsh lambs not that long ago what a shameNew grader there now but the damage has been done its only a matter of time till the place closes down
In the marts with graders, are the lambs sold in a ring or in the pens? Up here they are sold in a ring and the byers can handle the sheep themselves.
Cant like that was a good market for welsh lambs not that long ago what a shame
That's all the buyers want is consistent pen be it fat or lean!All sold in pens. Buyer can handle them before or during the sale. I think the grader does a lot to make sure all the lambs in the pen are evenly finished and match each other as wel as picking out any leaner ones. That way the buyer only has to handle one lamb to get a good idea of how fit the pen is.
Do you think the trade has bottomed or are there just less numbers in the markets?Lambs averaged £1.85 at local mart today with a fair few making £100 a head, even saw some hoggs make that. Few less in than the last few weeks
Lambs a bit better at Stirling today 177kg.
Yep and jumping the fence to go and have a nose at dinner time before the sale sometimes if i was sneaky enoughIt was ,remember listening to trade from class in school? [emoji23]
A lot less than it was!Anyone know what price cattle are dead weight please
A lot less than it was!
Woodheads £3.65