£200,000

[Henarar]

Bargain

 

[Woolless]

Maybe @Ysgythan can give us some insight on why this particular lamb was sought after? He gave a decent explanation of the record price given for Vicious Sid. I'm willing to bet it wasn't on account of his trait-leading EBVs.

It would be interesting to have a trial with this lamb and a decent commercial tup with a top 10% index bred with mule ewes.

 

[westwards]

One of the guy's who bought it also paid £125,000 for a lamb last year and was selling lambs off it for £450/500.......... its a lottery !!

 

[andybk]

I am always dubious of these kinds of numbers attached to a piece of livestock. Im sure the usual process is as follows. Someone like Andybk flogs a prized tup to a fellow sheep fancier like Unlacedgecko who is similarly well known in the industry. Said animal changes hands for 200K. Unlacedgecko then sells Andybk 3 prize winning ewes the total value of which is, funnily enough, 200K. Names are in papers and much prestige is gained for all concerned but the circle remains unbroken until a complete sheep muppet and novice with more money than sense arrives on the scene and buys a prize winning tup and two ewes from the two aforementioned gentlemen for 158K the following year because heck both of them sold some stunning animals the year before.

yea you got it , its the others in the pen that the bidders end up with as they cant afford the top one , they are the ones that make the money for the breeder ,
that said the other breeders will be queing up for semen from that ram at £50 - 100 a time , so they can sell offspring in next years catalogue, the buyer will get quite a bit back from semen sales .

 

[ollie989898]

One of the guy's who bought it also paid £125,000 for a lamb last year and was selling lambs off it for £450/500.......... its a lottery !!

How in the fudge is a lamb worth 500 quid? Does it have 8 legs and weighs 200kg dead or something?

 

[westwards]

only for one year if he does not breed, and that can happen to the dear one's too.

 

[westwards]

How in the fudge is a lamb worth 500 quid? Does it have 8 legs and weighs 200kg dead or something?

For breeding , pure Texels

 

[neilo]

How in the fudge is a lamb worth 500 quid? Does it have 8 legs and weighs 200kg dead or something?

The lambs from the £125k tup won’t be fat lambs, they’ll be getting sold as breeders’ rams, to all those chasing the dream. Seemingly not enough of them though, if the progeny are only making that.

 

[neilo]

I am always dubious of these kinds of numbers attached to a piece of livestock. Im sure the usual process is as follows. Someone like Andybk flogs a prized tup to a fellow sheep fancier like Unlacedgecko who is similarly well known in the industry. Said animal changes hands for 200K. Unlacedgecko then sells Andybk 3 prize winning ewes the total value of which is, funnily enough, 200K. Names are in papers and much prestige is gained for all concerned but the circle remains unbroken until a complete sheep muppet and novice with more money than sense arrives on the scene and buys a prize winning tup and two ewes from the two aforementioned gentlemen for 158K the following year because heck both of them sold some stunning animals the year before.

That about sums it up. Pssst, do you want in? I can do you a cracking deal on a starter flock......

 

[andybk]

TBH best of luck to buyer and seller , if they can make all of them jumping on the band wagon fork out for a bit of it , they deserve to pay it , personally i always look deeper than a pretty well fed head on the day . In all my years buying rams most of these headliners are gone in a few years . when the offspring cant live up to the hype

 

[Smith31]

I spend a lot of time on abattoir sheep lines, the quality of stock which can be produced with standard tups and ewes is already so high I fail to understand why someone would pay such silly figures for any sheep unless it was capable of producing offspring made of gold

 

[ollie989898]

That about sums it up. Pssst, do you want in? I can do you a cracking deal on a starter flock......

Love to but can I have my 185K back first?

 

[A1an]

So... anyone going to let on what's REALLY going on here?

Is this the same money going round and round within the breeders circles?

 

[Nithsdale]

So... anyone going to let on what's REALLY going on here?

Is this the same money going round and round within the breeders circles?

Put simply, yes.

 

[sheepwise]

Easy when your using money that's made from large businesses that are not linked to farming.

One way of paying less tax at the end of the year too.

What non-farming business does Auldhouseburn have??

 

[Scribus]

How much are they

You pay by the inch, apparently.

 

[sheepwise]

One of the guy's who bought it also paid £125,000 for a lamb last year and was selling lambs off it for £450/500.......... its a lottery !!

Also sold a half share in a lamb at £30k and another at £12k. Were you at the sale?

 

[Nithsdale]

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10157098512154713&id=547644712

Video of the tup being sold

 

[Greythundercloudys]

There will be a blackface at 220 in October,

 

[Katarina]

What non-farming business does Auldhouseburn have??

I was talking bout sportsmans!