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brigadoon

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Location
Galloway
I take lambs most weeks... if they’re making over £60 either the buyer has lost the bloody plot or they’re sending them to kill!

No money at all to be made from stores over £60 by the time you transport them back home, dip them for scab, they infect your breeding flock with scab so you have to then dip them also, a few die, your time to go check them every couple days, you invest in electric fencing kit, you plant stubble turnips, pay for winter keep, spend half your life electric fencing, a few energisers get pinched, your quad breaks down/needs a tank of fuel daily, you pen them up every Sunday to draft out the fit ones, your dog drops down dead, you have to put a creep feeder in and fill it up every other day because they’re not growing fast enough ...all that to take them back to market in spring and get £100 a life for them? Or even more comical £60 again for them because the price has gone tits up....

I stand by it anybody spending over £60 on “stores” ain’t actually taking them home as stores or they’re brain dead...
You forgot to mention finding your missus in bed with a toyboy when you got home :playful::playful::devil:
 

Mc115reed

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Livestock Farmer
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Must just be my calculator that doesn’t add up right buying stores at 100+ a life [emoji15]
 

pine_guy

Member
Location
North Cumbria
It’s the fact you can shift virtually half your lamb crop in early September leaving grass for feeding the wethers. Otherwise you would need to sell everything store which is a gamble most years
Carlisle run both on mondays.There are no "fat" ones in the stores there,because they would be bought and then just run straight around in t other ring for the fat.
i can think of 3 guys of the top of my head that buy in the store ring that will buy fat lambs and they won’t be ran round to the fat ring. One buys for skelly, ones a dealer that mostly trades in poor stores and one’s so good he can’t buy under his own name ??
 

jendan

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Northumberland
i can think of 3 guys of the top of my head that buy in the store ring that will buy fat lambs and they won’t be ran round to the fat ring. One buys for skelly, ones a dealer that mostly trades in poor stores and one’s so good he can’t buy under his own name ??
Can only think of Paul Bouch who buys stores for himself,and England,who i dont think i have seen him buy good quality lambs lately,just the poorer ones.Who is the last one?
 

sthdevons

Member
Livestock Farmer
Hi, I'm sorry if this is the wrong place to ask.
My dad has accidentally let some of his animals go past 36 months (he has parkinons and is trying to retire, but wanting to get the best price and organise the logistics of downsizing is proving too much, so he's getting behind with things) and is struggling to know where to send them to get the best prices. He's based near Leeds - does anyone have any advice or know any abattoirs who would take otm animals? (they are mainly south devons).
 

pine_guy

Member
Location
North Cumbria
Hi, I'm sorry if this is the wrong place to ask.
My dad has accidentally let some of his animals go past 36 months (he has parkinons and is trying to retire, but wanting to get the best price and organise the logistics of downsizing is proving too much, so he's getting behind with things) and is struggling to know where to send them to get the best prices. He's based near Leeds - does anyone have any advice or know any abattoirs who would take otm animals? (they are mainly south devons).
They are now cow price if direct. If they are fit, I think I’d be looking to sell them live. Not sure where though.
 

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