- Location
- Northumberland
What kind of ground is it though? the Eden valley?
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- Thread starter TFF
- Start date
- Location
- Northumberland
Suffolk x lambs out of Mules wont kill out 50%.
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
The OP has a very high index flock of pedigree Suffolks, and the lambs were maybe the culls from those? I would certainly expect a KO% of 50%+ from such lambs, finished on creep.
- Location
- Cheshire
Jesus, that was hard reading. I’ll go check the sheep are ready for lights out while my head stops hurting!!! 
- Location
- North Yorkshire
I too was losing the will to live...Jesus, that was hard reading. I’ll go check the sheep are ready for lights out while my head stops hurting!!!
just waiting for a full breakdown report of those Hereford bulls now so I know how far wrong I am.....this farming other people’s stock is for cleverer men than me I have enough on with my ownlivestock 1
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Great hahaI too was losing the will to live...
- Location
- East Sussex
I send around 1500 a year to local butchers and wholesalers and weigh every lamb/hogget.
Normally start selling when they are 10-12 weeks. These Romney x Texel lambs will start off at around 52% on a grass only diet.
Normally % won't fall below 50 until August. Then if you are not careful the % drops off rapidly and can get below 45. It is an age thing and once lambs go over around 14 weeks, unless creep fed don't die as well.
One reason Guth might be having a problem is by weighing after 11.00 am. Lambs weighed in the afternoon will always have a full belly and best to drop off 2 kg on a lamb.
I don’t own any Shetland’s but I’d bet my f**king life on it if I sent a 38kilo Shetland lamb or any other breed of lamb for that matter at 12 week old off it’s mother it would kill at 50% plus
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
51kg at £148 and 2 pure exlanas (52.5kg) at £136.
Would have been better on the hook this week, even at those weights...
(only a farmer could moan after selling hoggets at £148!)
I finally got to checking the email for the cull ewes I took in on Monday last night.
Charollais ewes at £187, a couple of Highlanders at £129 and nine pure Exlanas at £90. I didn’t even top the market with the Charollais, whose better flock mates had done so at £163 a couple of weeks ago.
Total was £4500 after stoppages for a trailer of 36 sheep. A good day at the office.
I finally got to checking the email for the cull ewes I took in on Monday last night.
Charollais ewes at £187, a couple of Highlanders at £129 and nine pure Exlanas at £90. I didn’t even top the market with the Charollais, whose better flock mates had done so at £163 a couple of weeks ago.
Total was £4500 after stoppages for a trailer of 36 sheep. A good day at the office.
That is a very good day at the office! I always think if you can clear £100 per animal sent it’s a good enough day at rate we are heading I’m gonna have too up my expectations [emoji23]
harperfarmer
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When selling springers live (which for is the only way we sold them pretty much forever) we were always lead to believe after June/July time "these lambs aren't dying like they were.." as just general market knowledge, obviously put about by the buyers. For various reasons we had a season selling on the hook and realised it was in fact complete rubbish and creep fed lambs will invariably always kill out at 50% right through. These were charollais out of suffolk x mules. Out of texel/beltex type ewes would obviously be better still.
Skintagain
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- Location
- Perched on the Pennines
Them highlanders were some tradeI finally got to checking the email for the cull ewes I took in on Monday last night.
Charollais ewes at £187, a couple of Highlanders at £129 and nine pure Exlanas at £90. I didn’t even top the market with the Charollais, whose better flock mates had done so at £163 a couple of weeks ago.
Total was £4500 after stoppages for a trailer of 36 sheep. A good day at the office.
fieldsofgold
Member
What an idiotic comment.
We regularly see our Suff x Mule springers in June kill at 54-55%.
If you don’t know what your talking about it’s better to say nothing.
You must have better sheep than me. I always think if I can clear £55 head I’ve had a good day.
Sold a cull 2 weeks ago for £25 [emoji23]
I’m just never happy that’s all [emoji23][emoji23][emoji23]
- Location
- Northumberland
Read Frank The Wools post.They wont after August.
livestock 1
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Well I don’t have any spring lambs as a rule unless a tup gets out and I’m usually still lambing in June/July
I can’t say I know of many spring lambs being sold in august .... I’d call them summer lambs personally ...
Aspiring Peasants
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- Location
- North Pennines
Are the Exlanas usually worth so much less than the Highlanders?I finally got to checking the email for the cull ewes I took in on Monday last night.
Charollais ewes at £187, a couple of Highlanders at £129 and nine pure Exlanas at £90. I didn’t even top the market with the Charollais, whose better flock mates had done so at £163 a couple of weeks ago.
Total was £4500 after stoppages for a trailer of 36 sheep. A good day at the office.
Aye better grass than you to be fair but I think they do better on older pasture than some of the modern grasses.