£40000

[caveman]

Probably be a nice little earner in the mart now.

 

[S J H]

Just a quick up date.I bought 210 grazing ewes on Saturday all private off 1farm mainly mules with a few texels in.not the biggest sheep in the world but all lean and heathy had lambs off them 10days.cost me £44 each what you think will they leave a wage?

Are they all to be culled? Or will they breed? id say there's got to be money in it.

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Guy I know makes £800 day selling fudge out of an old van, I could live off that

 

[caveman]

Guy I know makes £800 day selling fudge out of an old van, I could live off that

Makes or takes?
I bet there are plenty of fudge boxes making far more than that!

 

[cull cows]

Are they all to be culled? Or will they breed? id say there's got to be money in it.

About 60 will tup again rest just want fattening and cashing.gone on to good grass should be fat in 6/8 weeks

 

[holywell farmer]

About 60 will tup again rest just want fattening and cashing.gone on to good grass should be fat in 6/8 weeks

a herd of welsh black cattle !

 

[Beef farmer]

It's like you have Tourette's. ^^^^

 

[cull cows]

Just a update for you on the 210 ewes I bought in August. 6 died sold 104 fat to av £84 and sold 100 in lamb today for £100 each happy with that I am!!

 

[Guiggs]

Just a update for you on the 210 ewes I bought in August. 6 died sold 104 fat to av £84 and sold 100 in lamb today for £100 each happy with that I am!!

I bet you are!
Can I ask, when did you sell the fats?
Did you have the in lamb ewes scanned?
Did you sell private or through market?
I only ask as I have tupped some broken mouthed welsh ewes and I'm panning on doing similar to you next year!

 

[z.man]

Just a update for you on the 210 ewes I bought in August. 6 died sold 104 fat to av £84 and sold 100 in lamb today for £100 each happy with that I am!!

well done good return on investment def made the right decision to go with ewes not much else will have done that well recently

 

[cull cows]

I bet you are!
Can I ask, when did you sell the fats?
Did you have the in lamb ewes scanned?
Did you sell private or through market?
I only ask as I have tupped some broken mouthed welsh ewes and I'm panning on doing similar to you next year!

Sold the fat ewes in local mart.sold lambers from home.man who bought them is scanning with his next week but I said I'd have any emptys back

 

[Ashtree]

Guy I know makes £800 day selling fudge out of an old van, I could live off that

I've spend most days fudging, but never get that kinda money for it -

 

[Guiggs]

Sold the fat ewes in local mart.sold lambers from home.man who bought them is scanning with his next week but I said I'd have any emptys back

Well done!
Who says there's no money in farming!

 

[aggravated farmer]

40,000 is roughly what? $52,000? I'd buy 30 Jersey open heifers, AI them to a good pedigree. Then put the rest away.

 

[Zoofarmer]

I'd keep doing whatever earned me the £40000 in the first place!!

 

[GTB]

As I've said a few times on here, there aren't many safer bets than old lean ewes bought at the right price.

 

[caveman]

I'd keep doing whatever earned me the £40000 in the first place!!

Probably doubling his money on a bunch of sheep every winter and then the same on a bunch of cattle through the summer.

What costs do you need to take out of the £9496 that you have made, over and above the £9240 initial investment, in "dealing" these sheep?

This could turn into one of those interweb investment type games.

 

[Thick Farmer]

Probably doubling his money on a bunch of sheep every winter and then the same on a bunch of cattle through the summer.

What costs do you need to take out of the £9496 that you have made, over and above the £9240 initial investment, in "dealing" these sheep?

This could turn into one of those interweb investment type games.

I'm in. Can provide grazing too.

 

[caveman]

I'm in. Can provide grazing too.

Ha ha.
All I know, is that any ewes bought at mart down here for £44 last autumn, might just as well of been delivered straight to the knacker mans burner, as they wouldn't of walked off of the trailer unless they were those little coloured wooley rat things.

 

[neilo]

Ha ha.
All I know, is that any ewes bought at mart down here for £44 last autumn, might just as well of been delivered straight to the knacker mans burner, as they wouldn't of walked off of the trailer unless they were those little coloured wooley rat things.

Agreed. The bulk of the profit was from buying them very well I'd have thought. Where they off a guy that doesn't go near a market and sells everything dw?

Good work though.