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Raider112

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I wont touch anything out the weaners that are flighty.Im too old for it now. Used to be the same when i was milking cows and the odd one i bought.Stand just outside the entrance race and get your hand on their backs.You could tell straight away what their temperament was like.
A vendor came into the ring in Carlisle with a head wound, not a good advert for your stock!
To be fair, a lot of those suckled calves have had a bit of upheaval on sale day and most settle down after a while. There's always the odd one that will be fine until something different happens and then spooks the lot of them.
 
A vendor came into the ring in Carlisle with a head wound, not a good advert for your stock!
To be fair, a lot of those suckled calves have had a bit of upheaval on sale day and most settle down after a while. There's always the odd one that will be fine until something different happens and then spooks the lot of them.
One of mine jumped over the gates into the ring I felt the draft on the back of my head as it passed must have been in a hurry quiet as a mouse at home you could rub it’s back in the shed
 
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Devon
Do you actually farm??

£100 today will hardly fill up the farm truck with juice let alone anything else!

I agree but i do agree compared with cattle sheep do have a lot less costs....and 100/120 quid for a lamb is still a very good return, yes i know other things are dearer but thats the same whether you keep sheep or not.
£100/120 for a lamb in this day and age is far from a good return!

In fact its more like a complete waste of time for the work /hassle/ money involved in lambing/ rearing sheep!

Easier at the moment to make the cattle numbers stack up ( and that is with very high grain/input prices ) v the sheep numbers!
 

cattleman123

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Location
devon
£100/120 for a lamb in this day and age is far from a good return!

In fact its more like a complete waste of time for the work /hassle/ money involved in lambing/ rearing sheep!

Much easier at the moment to make the cattle numbers stack up v the sheep numbers!
Well if they all read this they will be quiting sheep...i am not paying for than 70 quid for my store lambs..so there you go
 
Well if they all read this they will be quiting sheep...i am not paying for than 70 quid for my store lambs..so there you go
This is what I was meaning by store lambs being cheap this time
There will be a few more folks thinking the same
Store lambs are partly valued on retrospective prices ie winter spring of 20/21 hoggs
21/22 winter/spring didn’t deliver the same did it?
 
Location
Devon
This is what I was meaning by store lambs being cheap this time
There will be a few more folks thinking the same
Store lambs are partly valued on retrospective prices ie winter spring of 20/21 hoggs
21/22 winter/spring didn’t deliver the same did it?
Store lambs need to be £100/120 head.

Prime lambs need to be £170/90 head

In this day and age.

Wanting store lambs at £70 and the race to the bottom will mean the sheep job will end up like the pig job within a few years and only one winner in that situation and that is the supermarkets!
 

NFI

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Livestock Farmer
do many people use creep? lot to be said for keeping grass reseeded i use to creep, not done it for 10yrs now though
Creep is only a small percentage of the true costs. By the time you've vaccinated against everything you can think of, taken the fleece off that's worth nothing, cliked and whatever else to try and save them. Then deal with the pantomime they call lambing, you want at least £100 a lamb. Even a flipping ear tag is 70p. You add it up and you'll frighten yourself. Like Hfd cattle said "some still die".
 

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