Skintagain
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- Location
- Perched on the Pennines
It hasn’t mattered as much this time as long as they are finished nicely but those top end lambs have been a pleasure to sell
Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker
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- Start date
Fert and feed reality kicking in.
Stw88
Member
- Location
- Northumberland
always does week before suckler sales start!
- Location
- North Yorkshire
Don’t worry it’s all forgotten about again the week of the sales they’re always crackersalways does week before suckler sales start!
- Location
- Cheshire
Sounds like Dalesbreds were a good trade in Bentham today?
Skipton was a fair trade for gimmer lambs yesterday. Manage to get 500 bought and they have come back better lambs than last year. I bought 110 for the flock I shepherd of proper nice (white headed) small tuppers that I will run dry for £108. Same as we average for the finished lambs so happy days. 
- Location
- Cheshire
You’re not venturing too Hawes on Monday then?? Always some nice lambs at the third sale thereSkipton was a fair trade for gimmer lambs yesterday. Manage to get 500 bought and they have come back better lambs than last year. I bought 110 for the flock I shepherd of proper nice (white headed) small tuppers that I will run dry for £108. Same as we average for the finished lambs so happy days.
No I’m got to Lazonby on Wednesday.
Am hoping to go on Wednesday, do you know how many they are expecting?
- Location
- Devon
There seems to be a discrepancy between the judging and the buyers?...
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
Just found the September HCC Bulletin email, rather than trying to remember what was said at the meeting. The bulletin sheep market comment read as this:
-Total sheep throughput at UK abattoirs stood at just over 1.1 million head for August – down 19.0% on the year. Within this, lamb throughput was down 19.5% on the year at 997,700 head – which is also down 20.3% on 2019. Despite the decrease in throughput, the average carcase weights were up 0.6kg on the year at 19.8kg. Cull ewe and ram throughput numbers also fell by 14.3% on the year to 105,200 head. The total volume of sheepmeat produced during August decreased by 17.6% on the year to 22,500 tonnes. Looking at the first 8 months of this year, total sheep throughput was currently down 12.3% on the year, whilst production decreased by 11.3%
Ross121
Member
- Location
- Oxfordshire
Managed to buy 51 Suffolk mule lambs yesterday average £92, some tuppable but mostly running
Versatile sheep - ballet dancing in their repertoire - very impressive picture.
- Location
- Dumfries & Galloway
Versatile sheep - ballet dancing in their repertoire - very impressive picture.
I thought they'd been watching Rocky
Skintagain
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- Location
- Perched on the Pennines
I’d rather be the buyer than the seller
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Where from?
Was going to go to that sale just for a look but forgot all about it
Ross121
Member
- Location
- Oxfordshire
Melton Mowbray
Funny trade really I thought some nice texel lambs at 105-120 looked cheap, but some lambs good value for money
Tups where all over with some a very strong trade
Theaves generally 140-160 for nice dry run mules, texel nice theaves 170
Picked up a pen of llyens at 95
Not too unusual with hill breeds - beauty is in the eye of the beholder, etc . . . Sometimes buyers are looking to get in to certain "blood" lines or maybe different folk are looking for different things e g teeth, conformation , skin and so on!!