Woolless
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- Location
- Berwickshire, Scottish Borders
Easier to finish they may be but the colours are hopeless
Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker
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- Start date
- Location
- central scotland
Sheepfog
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- Location
- Southern England
Easier bought though, or go Cheviot mule!Easier to finish they may be but the colours are hopeless
I must say that I have found the Cheviot mule wedder lambs very easily sold this backend.
PEasier to finish they may be but the colours are hopeless
Sold my last one prime this week 34kg pet/Cade at just short £100, averaged over £100 a head for the wethers this time
- Location
- Cheshire
Well done! Happy days with that! Have you sold the gimmers too or are they for your own use?Sold my last one prime this week 34kg pet/Cade at just short £100, averaged over £100 a head for the wethers this time
- Location
- East Sussex
Please don't tell them all!
It has been a well kept secret for years down here.
We never could afford to buy cake and my Father always said he was allergic to carrying it!
If anyone wants to buy some next year we always have a few to sell.
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
I can’t see how, apart from a very few pens, the buyers in a mart the size of Welshpool can know who’s lambs are who’s.
Some vendors will be there but most are just stood somewhere nearby to get their prices. Very few are stood in the pens with the lambs.
d williams
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They know they have the drovers keeping them in the loop
Woolless
Member
- Location
- Berwickshire, Scottish Borders
Do they sell them in the pens? No board to say who the vendor is?
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
Yes, in the pens, as in every other market I've ever sold lambs at in my life. I thinking running them through a ring, and not weighing them (empty) until sold is more of a Northern peculiarity, with the empty weights reflected in the higher sqq in most Northern marts.
Down here the auctioneer calls out the weights and if they are FA or not, and occasionally mentions the vendor (if he's watching). Other than that, they are bidding on the pen of lambs stood in front of them. A grader will have handled every lamb after weighing (when they arrive) and marked anything deemed to fat or too lean.
Northeastfarmer
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- Location
- Cleveland
Love a bargain…trolley filled with crowns
just to keep the price tracker alive
Hilly
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- Location
- Scottish Borders.
( only joking ) .
Hilly
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- Location
- Scottish Borders.
Tesco ?
Northeastfarmer
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- Location
- Cleveland
I know it’s Christmas but behaveTesco ?
livestock 1
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Serves 16!!!! Have you got 15 mates!?!!
Hilly
Member
- Location
- Scottish Borders.
Goodman and family
Northeastfarmer
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- Location
- Cleveland
Yes but they can buy their own. I’ve just cut the crowns off the whole one and froze everything else, one half crown and a ham Will do for tomorrow