It's water has well they definitely loss some weight on transport same has cattleThe excuse of “they can s**t out 3-5kg in the journey “ is pretty daft , as I’ve yet to drop the trailer ramp to wash out and find 250 kg of muck in there .
Often find that on a good trade they weigh better than a bad . Took lambs to a market hadn’t been to for a while the other day and they weighed real well , I assume they wanted my repeat custom