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Optimus

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Livestock Farmer
Location
North of Perth
I'm sure there was not long ago, and did they not used to sell females the night before?
Never known them sold on the morning....and still finished by just after 1.
But yes,I suppose all the plainer end will be better off killed rather than spend time pampering and halter training and then expense registering and feeding.
A lot more go private these days.costs too much to take them to the bull sales.
 

Fendt516profi

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Yorkshire
There’s a mobile mill mix round here. Produce good feed but they can’t blow it into a silo which is a pain as they can’t guarantee the mix will flow. If they could do that I’d use them all the time but hand bagging 20 bags a day was too much faff.

I mixed 30 ton on farm last year after my cattle escaped and helped themselves to a neighbours grain store, so I felt duty bound to buy the contents 😂. Lucky they weren’t in there too long, and it wasn’t too full!
Get a auger bucket then make sure your the one sat on the seat and get someone else to hold the bags
 
Being the keeper of the family diaries going back 100 years on a sheep farm who dabbles in extra store lambs I though it ought be recorded its the first time we have paid £100 for store lambs!! Any profit? We shall see in the next 10 weeks.
What would those £100 lambs have been worth in December or end of November?
 
Location
Devon
Being the keeper of the family diaries going back 100 years on a sheep farm who dabbles in extra store lambs I though it ought be recorded its the first time we have paid £100 for store lambs!! Any profit? We shall see in the next 10 weeks.
Only lamb you would get today for £100 would have been a small hill bred type that you could have bought for £45 head two months ago
 

Stw88

Member
Location
Northumberland
I saw a youngish OTM Limi bull make just short of £2900 this week in the geld ring, and he would be bought to kill
Was a one made 3300 at Carlisle on Monday. Hard work buying a bull today, had 10 marked all 8-16k. Managed to pick a canny bull up for 6200 but just took a liking to him in the ring, hadnt payed that much attention to him outside.
 

Hilly

Member
The store cattle trade today at Sedge would certainly be the dearest ever seen at the centre i would think, cattle around 300/350 kilos were selling exceptionally well for what they were with heifers of this type and R grade around the £1100 to £1200 head range, very little worth buying less than £1100 head, no end of feeding steers, £1600+ head, Angus cattle in red hot demand with for example one pen of 13 dairy bred N/S steers making from memory about £1685 head.
Id have had to have 12 or 14 13s unlucky number but not this occasion ! 😂 thats the way to sell cattle mind .
 

Top Tip.

Member
Location
highland
Being the keeper of the family diaries going back 100 years on a sheep farm who dabbles in extra store lambs I though it ought be recorded its the first time we have paid £100 for store lambs!! Any profit? We shall see in the next 10 weeks.
First but hopefully not the last . Speaking on behalf of all store lamb producers!!
 
Same stable as your last one. Was only 1 msport son, should have maby had a dabble at him but liked his 3rd one better, it made 12k 🙄 This one is by Goldies North Star good figures and growth rates, double f94. Fingers crossed
Well mine gets well enough so hopefully yours will too. He seems to be in the top with the store cattle
 
Was a one made 3300 at Carlisle on Monday. Hard work buying a bull today, had 10 marked all 8-16k. Managed to pick a canny bull up for 6200 but just took a liking to him in the ring, hadnt payed that much attention to him outside.
Champion looked a fair bull in videos I’ve seen, what like was he in the flesh?
 

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