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jendan

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Northumberland
Has the breed lost its appeal?
Did you see any texel x sold, I have a few and they make decent sheep apart from been a little flighty, would of gone but I was cutting grass
Chev x Tex made roughly the same,both lambs and gimmers,although i think they might have been a bit bigger on the whole.Smiths from West Bolton,Alnwick had over 400 really good lambs,would average well over £100 i think,and were about the best i saw.
 

Frank-the-Wool

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
East Sussex
If the Farmers Weekly journalists are making that up they want sacking.People buy it for a source of true information,not tabloid gossip.
Not making it up but not the whole story.
Most Spanish lambs are either Merino or more likely Milk sheep, very few are what we would recognise as meat sheep with any conformation.
Yes they will have filled a gap for the ethnic market but not the right type of carcass for the relatively fussy meat trade in France.
 

Jim75

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Easter ross
Sold first of our fat lambs off old pasture yesterday and would be a couple quid up on last years price which was the same corresponding week at the same average weight.
 
Yes, against the grain to sell ewe hoggs fat. I heard a guy sold 300 ewe hoggs in the last week of March last year and they average 125+, no clipping, no summering them or the odd dead one. He will be laughing now.
 
Location
Cleveland
Yes, against the grain to sell ewe hoggs fat. I heard a guy sold 300 ewe hoggs in the last week of March last year and they average 125+, no clipping, no summering them or the odd dead one. He will be laughing now.
Hindsight is a beautiful thing, I could of sold my best gimmers for £180 fat in the spring but I kept them...no good going over what could of been
 

Al R

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
West Wales
Hindsight is a beautiful thing, I could of sold my best gimmers for £180 fat in the spring but I kept them...no good going over what could of been
Well why didn’t you? We’re topped at 21kg here so my 27.5kg carcass ewe lambs only came back at £115.

A dealer friend phoned yesterday, breeding ewes are £10-15/head under cull ewe price and the cull ewe price has dropped £10-15/head in a week.
 
Location
Cleveland
Wow.. I sold some nice ram lambs last spring for £115, obviously I kept the best. Surely people were going to do the same with ewe lambs? Keep the ultra best and kill the mediocre’s.
I always keep my best ones, I could of sold them for £180 and bought breeders back now for £120 but hindsight is wonderful and I have no idea of the breeding or disease status of the bought in ones
 

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quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

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