Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

[serf]

And they will be in next doors by lunch.

Lunch ......

 

[unlacedgecko]

McCarteys’s?

Yes

 

[Optimus]

Is it alive ?? Could have been a little calf born in a skin, same difference I suppose

Aye its a wee chuncky bull calf.cow calved no bother last year to the same bull too

 

[unlacedgecko]

If you shoot lame ones but sell pet lambs I’m assuming you must have ran out of bullets??

I euth sheep having made a judgement on welfare and profitability.

As I said above, any sheep who's lame to the point of compromised welfare (badly on 2 or more feet, or not responding to treatment) gets shot.

These lambs were viable, just needed rearing. Had I been unable to sell/give them away, I would have euth them rather than make a bad job of rearing them.

 

[Skintagain]

Just done a caesarian this morning doubt I'll see any money out of that calf.

Bloody hell if all is alive I would be over moon. Balls to the cash side

 

[JHT]

Yes

I don’t know the patch but it’s not far from me- not exactly the lowlands

 

[Werzle]

Bloody hell if all is alive I would be over moon. Balls to the cash side

If the calfs alive i always think it was worth doing and the calf will pay the bill in the end. Only had one this time thankfully, worse calving i had four .

 

[Werzle]

I don’t know the patch but it’s not far from me- not exactly the lowlands

Alot of grasskeep on offer by the looks, cheaper to take more grazing or buy fert One firm wanted tenders around the £100/ac, not that i want any.

 

[Skintagain]

If the calfs alive i always think it was worth doing and the calf will pay the bill in the end. Only had one this time thankfully, worse calving i had four .

I just take rough with smooth. Divide total vet costs by herd not pin it on an individual in my mind. Get shut of any problems and that yearly bill should come down.

 

[unlacedgecko]

I don’t know the patch but it’s not far from me- not exactly the lowlands

Yeah it was described as uplands grazing by the person I spoke to. Which is why I'm asking how anyone could make margin on that price.

 

[Mc115reed]

Just been the butchers for my lunch.. lots of pork on the counter between £8-10kg
Only beef on the counter was a few precut Steaks ribeye & serloin £25… only lamb on the counter was minted lamb burgers with no prices on them… asked him why no lamb and beef and he said he can’t shift it… he wasn’t very amused when I said you’ll never f**king shift it if your hiding it in the fridge but got all this pork out that your having a big pay day on

on bright side… this peppered steak baguette was only £4

 

[Suffolksucklers]

Has anyone got the cow grid for pickstocks? I'm sure it was posted a few weeks ago but that could be 500 pages back by now

 

[Shebb90]

Has anyone got the cow grid for pickstocks? I'm sure it was posted a few weeks ago but that could be 500 pages back by now

Do you know what they are paying for base at the moment for cows,? You are right it was posted.

 

[Suffolksucklers]

Do you know what they are paying for base at the moment for cows,? You are right it was posted.

Think it's about four quid like most of them, just wanted to know how that varied across the grid

 

[sheepwise]

The chronic and acute levels of lameness in the national flock.

The endemic levels of scab.

Castration and tail docking without pain relief. Hell, I'll bet most producers don't even give pain relief when treating lameness.

High levels of assisted lambings.

Breeding a "tight coat" which makes an animal more susceptible to fly strike.

Texel throat.

If I go into our local town and look at the people walking on the streets I’d say 20% of them are lame. Some of them might even be a bit itchy. Should we shoot them on welfare grounds?

 

[z.man]

If I go into our local town and look at the people walking on the streets I’d say 20% of them are lame. Some of them might even be a bit itchy. Should we shoot them on welfare grounds?

There is a few that maybe should be culled/removed from society or at least stopped from breeding

 

[Northeastfarmer]

If I go into our local town and look at the people walking on the streets I’d say 20% of them are lame. Some of them might even be a bit itchy. Should we shoot them on welfare grounds?

My nanna went 6 weeks without food or water before she sadly passed in hospital.
if it had been an animal you’d of been jailed

if I hear the word “mutilation” used to describe rubber ringing once more id like to rubber ring them

 

[livestock 1]

My nanna went 6 weeks without food or water before she sadly passed in hospital.
if it had been an animal you’d of been jailed

if I hear the word “mutilation” used to describe rubber ringing once more id like to rubber ring them

Father went similar way

 

[JSmith]

Father went similar way

Mine too, best thing for him would of been for me to take him up the field to look at the land an the stock he loved and shoot the fecker!! He’d of been much happier than being bed ridden an relying on others when he didn’t need anyone his whole life!!

an just so I don’t get told off, ewes ballistic In Bridgnorth yesterday, texel rams to £250, an he wasn’t a monster

 

[JSmith]

If I go into our local town and look at the people walking on the streets I’d say 20% of them are lame. Some of them might even be a bit itchy. Should we shoot them on welfare grounds?

Save the country a fortune if we did, half the feckers are only limping on the way to the dole office, when they come out they’re feckin running to the nearest off license or weather spoons!!