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My opinion is that lambs wont go much higher, I think there are a lot of people sat on lambs now what are willing to wait for them to get to £7 and I don't think it will come. I have 2 neighbors that are both sat on 2000 lambs waiting for it to go silly and my scanner last week hadn't started selling his 1500 lamb yet. Plus all the second quality Texel and Suffolk ewe lambs that can be killed in may and June. There are plenty of sheep out there the buyers are tempting everyone with a good price to keep them coming in.
But that is only my opinion of the job.
 

Hfd Cattle

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Hereford
My opinion is that lambs wont go much higher, I think there are a lot of people sat on lambs now what are willing to wait for them to get to £7 and I don't think it will come. I have 2 neighbors that are both sat on 2000 lambs waiting for it to go silly and my scanner last week hadn't started selling his 1500 lamb yet. Plus all the second quality Texel and Suffolk ewe lambs that can be killed in may and June. There are plenty of sheep out there the buyers are tempting everyone with a good price to keep them coming in.
But that is only my opinion of the job.
I think you aren't far off with your opinion. I know of a lot of lambs around . Friend of ours only sells his store lambs when his beet is close to running out but with the wet and mild weather the beet has continued bulking up and they are taking a lot more grazing than usual . We have about 600 to go but haven't started drawing yet due to poor personal health but I'm not panicking .
 

Old Tip

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Location
Cumbria
I think you aren't far off with your opinion. I know of a lot of lambs around . Friend of ours only sells his store lambs when his beet is close to running out but with the wet and mild weather the beet has continued bulking up and they are taking a lot more grazing than usual . We have about 600 to go but haven't started drawing yet due to poor personal health but I'm not panicking .
I agree, had a trip round Cumbria and Yorkshire this last week and there’s a lot of lambs on beet and turnips looking very muddy and the crop is still growing. These lambs will want a dry fortnight at least to be fit to sell and with crop still growing there’s no rush.
Hope you get to feeling better soon
 

LAMBCHOPS

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I agree, had a trip round Cumbria and Yorkshire this last week and there’s a lot of lambs on beet and turnips looking very muddy and the crop is still growing. These lambs will want a dry fortnight at least to be fit to sell and with crop still growing there’s no rush.
Hope you get to feeling better soon
We have been methodically taking heavy lambs off each bunch as withdrawls finish. have abandoned roots and left then ungrazed as they had not done in the conditions compared to grass bunches. those lambs have now dried up and ment. Have a lot left 1500 or so but will be pulling weekly as got plenty of lambing to do in a months time. head down here this morning roof of barn just lifted off stay safe today.
 

S J H

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Bedfordshire
I was trying to work out on AHDB, but I think more lambs have been killed in the past 12 months than the previous, and I thought they'd be a lower lamb crop last year with lower scanning and decreasing flock.
 

Cotswoldshep

New Member
I've got 60 stores knocking about, reasonable size at home. Do I send them to my other block of grazing 20 miles away on clean grass and grow or sell as stores now. Help, what do I do. They are not taking grass away from pregnant ewes....
 
Lancaster this morn cracking trade
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