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Anymulewilldo

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Livestock Farmer
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Cheshire
I bought a load of struck ewe lambs one year. Cost me £10 less and vender had to pay me £5/head to treat them.
Got to be 6/7 years ago. I bought 75 Char x stores in Bentham. One of the yard lads came to me a few minutes later “don’t want to worry you but 1 of those last pen is struck. We’ve put that lot in a separate pen to the rest.” when sale had finished I went down and found 12 that had small maggots in the wool. Safe to say I somewhat flipped my lid about it. Started off telling the auction they could have them back, shouldn’t be selling struck sheep. What if they hadn’t noticed, they’d all been piled on a wagon and sent south? Another full warm day and a couple of them would have been bad. In the end I clipped them out with my battery hand shears and the mart paid for the crovect to treat them all before I loaded them. No idea if they recouped the cost from the farmer. 🤷🏻‍♂️
 

Anymulewilldo

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Livestock Farmer
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Cheshire
Can't believe folk would send dirty lambs to a fat sale, drives me mad when I see them dirty at store sales, its not a big job to dagg them, it's all about presentation but some folk can't be arsed
Christ, if Grandad thought I’d sent a sheep of any kind with dags hanging off it to mart he’d still banjo my ears for me! And I’m 31! There are some things you just don’t do. You get one chance to sell, why let a dirty arsed lamb cost you potentially £2/3/ lamb on a pen full
 

JockCroft

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Livestock Farmer
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JanDeGrootLand
North Store sale quite buoyant today. Lambs looked good.

QUOYBRAE, Aberdeen & Northern Marts (August 8 th) sold 4,801 prime and store Lambs, Feeding Ewes & Rams incorporating Dunbeath, Bettyhill, Forsinard and North West Sutherland areas. The overall sale average was £74.64 (+ £6.20 on the year). Ewe lambs (921) averaged £75.02 (+ £6.57) to £110 for Suffolks from Dunbeath Farms, Dunbeath. Wedder lambs (1,964) averaged £69.57 (+ £5.27) to £96.00 for Beltexs from 5 Achina, Bettyhill. Cross lambs (1,608) averaged £74.45 (+ £7.39) to £94.50 for Texel Ewe Lambs from Achaguie Farm, Scotscalder. Prime lambs (186) averaged 229.8p sold to 256.5p per kg and £1128 for 46kg Beltexs from Sibmister, Castletown. Feeding Ewes & Rams (122) Sold to £208.50 for Texels from The Rowans, Victoria Road, Brora. “A quality consignment of Store Lambs were met by a powerful ringside of buyers, leaving all consignors returning home delighted.
 

Nithsdale

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Livestock Farmer
Can't believe folk would send dirty lambs to a fat sale, drives me mad when I see them dirty at store sales, its not a big job to dagg them, it's all about presentation but some folk can't be arsed

Last week at Longtown store sale, someone had a trailer load of tidy Beltex type lambs in - every single one was tail clipped (didn't check to see if bellies were done)


Fair play to them doing it this early! I won't send a dirty lamb, but I'm getting rid of my longer keeps so I don't need to tail them later on 😂
 

Top Tip.

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highland
Christ, if Grandad thought I’d sent a sheep of any kind with dags hanging off it to mart he’d still banjo my ears for me! And I’m 31! There are some things you just don’t do. You get one chance to sell, why let a dirty arsed lamb cost you potentially £2/3/ lamb on a pen full
One struck lamb in a pen on Friday in Dingwall it was pulled out by the auctioneers and the owner told to take it home.
 
Grass everywhere up here and farmers have got a pound
Not quite everywhere. This has been cut for a month and had 2cwt of fert.
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Anymulewilldo

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Livestock Farmer
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Cheshire
Reading various reports and there's a common theme about lambs should be well finished and meaty. Averages can not mean a lot at times because there can be a two tier market for leaner lambs and meaty lambs.

I'm selling a few cattle tomorrow and was going to post the prices. Do I put it on here or the boring thread ?😂😂
Still says beef at the top. We aren’t splitters. 😆
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I took 4 homebred suckler bulls on the DW this morning. Will report back when they’ve graded.
 

muleman

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Reading various reports and there's a common theme about lambs should be well finished and meaty. Averages can not mean a lot at times because there can be a two tier market for leaner lambs and meaty lambs.

I'm selling a few cattle tomorrow and was going to post the prices. Do I put it on here or the boring thread ?😂😂
Put it on here, they had no need to leave .....the thread they have is just the same as this, general chat with a few prices🤔🤷‍♂️
 

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quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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