livestock 1
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Good way of getting shot of them if you sell them with lambs.
Plenty of molasses and or chopped beet is a good way to stop them going off their feet in the six weeks up to lambing.
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Plenty of molasses and or chopped beet is a good way to stop them going off their feet in the six weeks up to lambing.
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livestock 1
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That could be done but with such high breeding sheep values they have been too dear to do that this backend in the earlier sales especially. Gone off the boil lately a bit.
Who knows though if culls go up to dizzy heights then they will look ok
gone up the hill
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- Devon
Do you ever go to Sedge to see your cattle sold?
I know last year one week you posted on here that you were sending some Fri steers and posted pics of the ones going the next Sat, i knew they were your cattle as soon as they came in the ring and the comments from two of my mates stood beside me ( and who only buy decent contx cattle ) were: These Fri steers are bloody good cattle/ the farmer has done a very good job of rearing them/ they really are a credit to the vendor/ they are better farmed/ reared than most of the cont x dairy cattle we have seen today.
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- central scotland
We notch all first cross Texel ewe lambs that are born twins and make it to 48hrs with zero intervention then cull out the ones that go lame, don’t grow, get dirty bums but most importantly don’t have pretty heads
livestock 1
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Remember what you said to me now GUTHRIE !!!
‘How much more do YOU expect store values to go up with prime cattle values and straw in mind ?’
Have you changed your tune?
gone up the hill
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- Location
- Devon
Store lambs i would have said were £3/4 head less than Exeter yesterday.
gone up the hill
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- Devon
Prime cattle price is very good currently and far higher than anyone thought it would be at this time with the way things are ( ref the virus/ brexit etc ) .
Take a look at the straw prices from Sedge today that i have posted on the forage tracker thread, not anywhere near as strong as people thought they would be and not only that many lots of straw were unsold......
dinderleat
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- Location
- Wells
Yes normally Like to see them sold, just depends if we are busy, and they are Holsteins haven’t used fri for a fair few years
gone up the hill
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- Location
- Devon
They certainly carry a lot more flesh/shape than your average ( or even above average ) Holstein animal.
Why's that
livestock 1
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Good !
- Location
- South Molton
Nice to see you being open and honest.
So many try and sell holsteins as Friesians on the passport. Usually easy to see through.
gone up the hill
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- Devon
Exeter's store lamb trade has been the dearest in the SW all season.
Some large volume buyers have actually told RS that they will not attend Exeter now as the trade is far and above anywhere else in the UK for Store lambs and even thou they do not now come to Exeter if has not made one iota of difference to the very strong trade that is currently the case at Exeter.
Does NB still come down? He used to be a bit greedy. Obviously it’s a free country but just my opinion.
Iv bought 50 real nice mules out of Kirby this year too dip my toe in at it all full mouths and straight bags £87 a head delivered too staffordshire + £3 on chlamydia vac and £2 on heptavac so owe me £92 ... were a bit late weaned for me as I lamb last week of January too last week of February but all got raddle marked so hopefully held ... If they put me 1.8 lambs on the ground and sell away at £80 a life + £80 for there Mum cull they’ll stand me £240 .... minus lambing costs and my own time should in theory be money in it
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- West Yorkshire
Anybody been to gisburn today ?
Had a mate take 6 weaned calves all good sorts but he said trade was well down there to nearing to abysmal.
He wouldn’t have wanted to be some of the vendors waiting for the report at the end of day as they would have been disappointed.
Had a mate take 6 weaned calves all good sorts but he said trade was well down there to nearing to abysmal.
He wouldn’t have wanted to be some of the vendors waiting for the report at the end of day as they would have been disappointed.
Skintagain
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- Perched on the Pennines
Not how report reads but averages don't look flash.
livestock 1
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They sound cheap. I’ve heard of most making over £100 earlier on.
I breed replacements but like you I’m starting to think instead of keeping big numbers of ewes to breed off I can actually buy them cheaper (sometimes) than I can breed them myself.
Ive bought 500 since February. None of them look dear to me. If you are willing to sort through them and cull them properly at the right time they are a better bet than buying at the 12 o clock sales.I quite enjoy sorting through them to see what needs to go where
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- West Yorkshire
Was mid July I bought them I never even seen them I went too young farmers with the auctioneer he bought them for me real tidy sheep Iv got the vendors number now so going to try buy a batch again next year off Him ... considered the wild Welshie route as draft Welshies are dirt cheap and throw nice lambs but just not sure I want the drama of keeping the in