Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

[Mc115reed]

Talking to a friend on Sunday evening. His son is doing his fruit at the moment. Sponges and jabbed 250 ewes for early lambers. 7 have taken at first service. The others aren’t even cycling. safe to say he’s not a happy bunny

The vet said everything was cycling how they should be but he genuinely didn’t know how the heat would affect conception rates ..expensive learning experience if it has affected them…

 

[Anymulewilldo]

4 suckler bulls went last week, 13 - 13.5 months, came back at £1510 average. 377kg, smallest 334, largest 416. Smallest was out of a blue cross cow, tremendous shape but no size at all. Without chasing those better 3/4 bred beef cows I’m happy at that.

I know it’s cattle not sheep but I refuse to be a splitter.

 

[Anymulewilldo]

The vet said everything was cycling how they should be but he genuinely didn’t know how the heat would affect conception rates ..expensive learning experience if it has affected them…

When it’s 30+ degrees in the shade is your Mrs keen for a jump? Are you? I rest my case.

 

[Chae1]

That’s what used to happen to me
I was going to say to @Nithsdale Farmer yesterday I’m not sure who got the biggest shock the lass looking at what state the house was in of me looking at the state of what I had picked up

Was trying to sneak out the house in the morning was always worst bit!

Mind 1 had a full length mirror in her bedroom and I smashed it, trying to find the door in the dark.

Thank goodness no camera phones back then.

 

[ritchiekirkland]

Bet you where looking at the mirror when you where doing the deed too !!!

 

[Optimus]

Thought I was going to have to send for help today
Ruff as a badgers arse

Sounded like you needed a turbo shandy to square you up?

 

[Optimus]

Turbo shandys were beer and smirnoff ice. Used to spin a 50p on the bar and had to down it before it stopped spinning.

They were lethal. Woke up with some right mingers after drinking that.

2 pints of fat frog an that used to set me up for the night.
Back in the day when you could get pished for £20

 

[Anymulewilldo]

2 pints of fat frog an that used to set me up for the night.
Back in the day when you could get pished for £20

I still can

 

[hendrebc]

2 pints of fat frog an that used to set me up for the night.
Back in the day when you could get pished for £20

Is that the same as what they call either frog snot or frog squash depending on the pub round here? Bottle each of blue wkd, reef and was it smirnoff ice I think? All mixed between 2 or 3 pint glasses depending how many in the round. Some stuff that was.
Black and blue as well. blue wkd and Guinness if you poured it right they wouldn't mix and one would sit on top of the other. Don't ask which one went top and bottom as I never managed to pour it right.
f**king hell we'd have some night if we all got together wouldn't we.

 

[mghley]

4 suckler bulls went last week, 13 - 13.5 months, came back at £1510 average. 377kg, smallest 334, largest 416. Smallest was out of a blue cross cow, tremendous shape but no size at all. Without chasing those better 3/4 bred beef cows I’m happy at that.

I know it’s cattle not sheep but I refuse to be a splitter.

Don’t apologise, this is the Beef/Lamb thread.
All looks a bit serious that side of the fence, certainly making a good job of ignoring @muleman doing his best to prompt a response

 

[thorpe]

There is a worrying trend in farmers when they decide to pack up. They die very soon after! It’s almost as if they’ve gone hard at it all their lives and when they stop, body stops.

i always tell my lads you have got to have somthing to get up for in a morning.

 

[thorpe]

Don’t leave it too late, make sure there is a bit of time to enjoy it. I intend on being cashed up and done by sixty. No living children and on the edge of a village, I’m not chewing on until I drop for the government to have it for free

gee, im glad ive got a couple of sons, ive no intention of retiering just want to slow up a bit! dont seem to be happening yet.

 

[Estate fencing.]

Is that the same as what they call either frog snot or frog squash depending on the pub round here? Bottle each of blue wkd, reef and was it smirnoff ice I think? All mixed between 2 or 3 pint glasses depending how many in the round. Some stuff that was.
Black and blue as well. blue wkd and Guinness if you poured it right they wouldn't mix and one would sit on top of the other. Don't ask which one went top and bottom as I never managed to pour it right.
f**king hell we'd have some night if we all got together wouldn't we.

Probably best we never do get together. @Anymulewilldo will never be the same again.

 

[Estate fencing.]

Don’t leave it too late, make sure there is a bit of time to enjoy it. I intend on being cashed up and done by sixty. No living children and on the edge of a village, I’m not chewing on until I drop for the government to have it for free

A very good tenant farmer and contractor round here Said he would retire at 60, everyone said “no he will keep going”. On his 60th birthday we all went to his sale. He hold me that all finance and overdraft was panned to be paid of the year before, managed to buy a lovely house and now relief combine drives, does a small amount of digger work and helps out at market once a week. Said to be he’s having the time of his life.

 

[Hfd Cattle]

gee, im glad ive got a couple of sons, ive no intention of retiering just want to slow up a bit! dont seem to be happening yet.

I'm supposed to be slowing up .......but it just ain't happening .

 

[Hfd Cattle]

gee, im glad ive got a couple of sons, ive no intention of retiering just want to slow up a bit! dont seem to be happening yet.

My kids would be mad to give up what they do to come back farming. They all earning money that we can only dream of !
When they come visiting it makes me and the OH look like the 'poor relations' .......which we are !!

 

[Hilly]

My kids would be mad to give up what they do to come back farming. They all earning money that we can only dream of !
When they come visiting it makes me and the OH look like the 'poor relations' .......which we are !!

Same here , its a foking joke , livestock farming is a mugs game now.

 

[thorpe]

My kids would be mad to give up what they do to come back farming. They all earning money that we can only dream of !
When they come visiting it makes me and the OH look like the 'poor relations' .......which we are !!

m youngest is a plant mechanic cant wait to get on the farm earning half the money for double the hours

 

[Optimus]

Is that the same as what they call either frog snot or frog squash depending on the pub round here? Bottle each of blue wkd, reef and was it smirnoff ice I think? All mixed between 2 or 3 pint glasses depending how many in the round. Some stuff that was.
Black and blue as well. blue wkd and Guinness if you poured it right they wouldn't mix and one would sit on top of the other. Don't ask which one went top and bottom as I never managed to pour it right.
f**king hell we'd have some night if we all got together wouldn't we.

Aye that was the stuff it went down so fast, was like drinking fruit juice.

 

[Hilly]

m youngest is a plant mechanic cant wait to get on the farm earning half the money for double the hours

Why should it be like that tho ? Why should hard working farmers producing quality food earn half of what others earn ? For by the fact we produce food !! Look at the skills and investment alone …