That’s the case with the breeding sheep, if you spend £170 you get a real good ewe, £150 gets you a lean badly bred thing. Good commercial tups are always cheap imo.
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- Thread starter TFF
- Start date
livestock 1
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Well today things have changed in the wood they have been doing a reenactment of game of thrones all dressed up with swords and frocks on Not sure if they were having sex or anything this time so I didn’t go stuck to spreading sh!t next to the caravan site
livestock 1
Member
Bet they don’t get any sex on the beef only thing
Greythundercloudys
Member
I seen at guy from Aberdeen, who says he sell 1000 tups a year had some at bethham, what were they like and were they big money. Only 990 to go.
livestock 1
Member
There must be some number of tups die when you reckon up what’s sold
- Location
- Cheshire
Best tups stayed up, good commercials definitely eased 1/3 of the way through. Bought 5 beltex x texels avg £616. Tups below £500 really weren’t very clever
livestock 1
Member
Does he breed them all or just buy them out the auctions and sell them on
livestock 1
Member
Sounds like something RD would be involved with
First time I spoke to him a minute into the conversation he tried to sell me some ewes
First time I spoke to him a minute into the conversation he tried to sell me some ewes
- Location
- Dumfries & Galloway
Very much doubt anyone breeds 1000 rams themselves...
At a guess you'd need 1600-1700 pure ewes to get 2000 lambs to get that 1000 tups - that's without counting deaths or absolute Muppets you wouldn't want to sell
If they were Texels or Beltexes You'd need to be f**kong good with the needle and thread because the vet bill on C-cuts could be scarier than most folks fert bill
They'll be hoovering up the runts at Lanark and Stirlings end of season sales bonanzas
casper74
Member
- Location
- North Yorkshire
They go into your pen after sold, then wagon driver and yard men check tags and or hope for the best!!!!
Doald dahl?
livestock 1
Member
I have 2 mates in Wales does it buys them and sells them on
You not see game of thrones then??
livestock 1
Member
livestock 1
Member
No I didn’t bother. She said there wasn’t anything happening like the last time. However she was getting very excited about it. I could put a good word in for you if you want ?You not see game of thrones then??
Left 10 mins ago, heading north, what 3 words me the location.
- Location
- Dumfries & Galloway
I know a few who try and do it, but not on that scale... but these lambs are left to the end sale for a reason. Without a mega feeding they'll usually still be the poor end as shearlings
It must work out or they'd not keep doing it I guess but to me it seems like a hard way to run a loss leader
livestock 1
Member
She might be willing to travel I didn’t dare ask really?Left 10 mins ago, heading north, what 3 words me the location.
livestock 1
Member
They have regular customers for them and sales at home for what I gather