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    Hogs at £200 plus….what price shearling ewes?

    Yes. Just checking them every day is a surprising bind
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    Hogs at £200 plus….what price shearling ewes?

    Agree about the profit, but compared to cereals the workload is unbelievable.
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    Keeping sheep with chickens

    I have sheep on my range but Salmonella is still a major worry for poultry producers and there is a risk of it coming from the sheep. A positive salmonella test will wipe out any profit from sheep forever. The advice to keep 30m from shed seems a fair balance, but there will still be a risk.
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    Hogs at £200 plus….what price shearling ewes?

    Or even 48% here in Scotland Granted that needs a lot of sheep, but maybe not that many wind turbines.
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    Hogs at £200 plus….what price shearling ewes?

    Even 1000 lambs at £50 over expected price is only £50000. It dosent buy you a new tractor let alone change your life.
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    Layers or broilers

    Not sure about 12 months, but it certainly is a volatile industry.
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    Layers or broilers

    Hypothetically with top egg performance, a good egg price, cheap feed source family labour money on deposit and a value on the manure, while somehow not paying any tax, possibly, but I certainly wouldn’t budget on it. An outbreak of avian influenza in a young flock without insurance would...
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    Layers or broilers

    Somewhere between 4 years and infinity.
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    Concreting and tax relief

    What if it’s to upgrade a farm road which has never had concrete/tar?
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    Unpaid rent-debt recovery worth it?

    That’s a good reminder. These conversations always bring out some dubious suggestions. If you can’t do it legally it’s really not worth dropping to their level.
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    Unpaid rent-debt recovery worth it?

    I would be very surprised if these houses in the lothians are only worth £444,000. I don’t think you will be buying many properties in Scotland.
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    Going rates for farm staff?

    If the monkey is on slightly less you have little choice (other than giving up). At least dairies have the opportunity of increasing output. Do the sims with sheep any shepherd has to run so many the only option is to sell
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    Going rates for farm staff?

    I think that is a fairly generous take home pay, but fair reflection of the cost of employing someone. in April the minimum wage will be £11.44. Which is £29,744 as an absolute minimum. Even without house there is employers NI, training, insurance extra equipment Christmas bonus.
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    Do I need planning for change of use from dairy to poultry

    Are you sure it’s a good idea. I fully get the planning aspect, but Everyone I have spoken to with a converted shed has complaints. compared to the equipment the shed is cheap, and if you have a serviced site groundwork’s should be minimal and I would be tempted to demolish and build a...
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    Free range enrichment

    The ration should be balanced. I would be slightly concerned that feeding extra wheat means they don’t get protein/minerals.
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