- Location
- Galloway
H and H Carlisle
Why are cast ewes so expensive?
- Thread starter Greythundercloudys
- Start date
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
A bunch of infertile Texel lambs made silly money last summer too. I wonder if they’ve already been hung up though??
Greythundercloudys
Member
Sheep are the price they will need to be once this sfp goes, if lmbs stay at 120, then they could stick there elms. That should be the way, what you sell should be enough to keep you going,
There's another £10/£20 to go on top of that ewe in haulage and killing charges, before it even reaches the butchers shop!
Will cost over £7 a kilo dead weight in carcass form
- Location
- Fife
I love posts like this.
- Location
- Fife
it’s madness.
Heard from a very prominent buyer that contracts for wee export lambs to Europe cancelled today. Nobody going out means no restaurants and take aways selling.
Fat ewes are going to the home market. Thankfully the good Muslim people of the currently UK haven't been forced out by all those narrow minded jobless bigots who want to take back control ??
- Location
- Bedfordshire
What are they eating in Europe then? I've heard all sorts of rumours in the last few weeks, usually by people with none to sell.
Don't know what's actually occurring, but the cancelled contacts is a reality, not a rumour.
I've still 150 or so wee ones to sell
The very wee lambs went to Italy so not surprising
- Location
- Somerset
I heard today from a chap that puts a lot of lambs into Farmers Fresh in Kenilworth that a lot of the lambs go to Italy and they don't want so many.
cull ewes will get to 300 quid before wheat does @glasshouse
NZDan
Member
- Location
- Broomfield, New Zealand
80kg is not that heavy now days, I scan Blackie flocks that average 80Kg
- Location
- Fife
That's crazy
NZDan
Member
- Location
- Broomfield, New Zealand
Lowland blackies, one place has a Blackie tup that weighs 158kg.
In flocks the average ewe weighs 75% of the heaviest ewe, so a flock averaging 65Kg will have ewes over 85kg. Most Mule flocks would average 75-80kg so the biggest ewes in those flocks will do over 100kg.
I think most people have no idea just how heavy their ewes are.
Shavings man
Member
I know nothing about this game so wot your saying once the sheep as Been killed they then have to kill a nearly ready to be born lamb ? Rich.But unsurprising. Plenty of the less scrupulous types will be cashing in whatever they can find on this trade.
I remember a dealer unloading an artic load of ‘cull’ ewes in Worcester market when prices went daft once before, all very heavily in lamb and with huge bellies.? I was quite pleased when I heard the following week that the inspector at the abattoir that killed them had stamped his feet and that dealer had his money stopped.....on all 300 of them. I doubt he learnt his lesson though.
- Location
- Fife
That's some maintenance requirement for a 42kg fat lamb
- Location
- Northumberland
The "buyers" have always got a story like that.Its nearly always twaddle!