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Winters at Clickham I think
Beef or Lamb ?Is that Nicholson and Holdsworths yard?
Lamb is at Clickham I thinkBeef or Lamb ?
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Near Dufton
Any report on Newark yesterday?
Nothing on their website.
A large finsher will know what cattle he has coming fit in the next 5/6 weeks and thus will be able to know if they are below the numbers needed to meet their contract numbers.
Some places will only require they are on farm for 21 days.
As for the prices, those on contracts/ finish large numbers will get better prices than say someone only sending cattle once a month.
As for the animal 1 day under 12 months that you picked up, the reason Tesco ( or whoever was the buyer ) couldn't use the meat from that animal is because it was under 12 months old and therefore is classed as veal.
The problem is that sheep are doing too well...lots of hogs hitting 46/8 kg easily this year...chatting to a guy yeaterday he predicts a shortage of proper export hogs,i consider its the fault of the breeders,they breed massive rams which are then tupped to big ewes..everyone wants size...hence these hogs are not fit until they are out of spec,buying the smaller end as I do I often get the older guys say to me that they will never make a sheep....then I hear they cant sell theres I wonder why.
I would say prices back, but there where more sheep than ever before so I have been told.
absolutely agree , trouble is the misconception that size equals growth rate, sorry it doesnt ! it means a longer growth curve as you point out , unless you are breeding small ewes , moderate size good shaped rams are more effective of achieving a high % in the right weight bracket finished on timeThe problem is that sheep are doing too well...lots of hogs hitting 46/8 kg easily this year...chatting to a guy yeaterday he predicts a shortage of proper export hogs,i consider its the fault of the breeders,they breed massive rams which are then tupped to big ewes..everyone wants size...hence these hogs are not fit until they are out of spec,buying the smaller end as I do I often get the older guys say to me that they will never make a sheep....then I hear they cant sell theres I wonder why.
The problem is that sheep are doing too well...lots of hogs hitting 46/8 kg easily this year...chatting to a guy yeaterday he predicts a shortage of proper export hogs,i consider its the fault of the breeders,they breed massive rams which are then tupped to big ewes..everyone wants size...hence these hogs are not fit until they are out of spec,buying the smaller end as I do I often get the older guys say to me that they will never make a sheep....then I hear they cant sell theres I wonder why.
Let them get on with it!The problem is that sheep are doing too well...lots of hogs hitting 46/8 kg easily this year...chatting to a guy yeaterday he predicts a shortage of proper export hogs,i consider its the fault of the breeders,they breed massive rams which are then tupped to big ewes..everyone wants size...hence these hogs are not fit until they are out of spec,buying the smaller end as I do I often get the older guys say to me that they will never make a sheep....then I hear they cant sell theres I wonder why.
Iwas told a bit better than last week..but still low...why...killers are so cheapDec born suck lambs are now upto 34 kilos already.... haven't had any weather check yet like last year but that could easily change!
In other news, what were the couples making yesterday?
The problem is that sheep are doing too well...lots of hogs hitting 46/8 kg easily this year...chatting to a guy yeaterday he predicts a shortage of proper export hogs,i consider its the fault of the breeders,they breed massive rams which are then tupped to big ewes..everyone wants size...hence these hogs are not fit until they are out of spec,buying the smaller end as I do I often get the older guys say to me that they will never make a sheep....then I hear they cant sell theres I wonder why.
I think this is why the Beltex is growing in popularity despite its many issues. Folk have been tempted to keep bigger breeding ewes as cull ewe prices over the last few years have been very good. Crossed with a Suffolk or Texal the lambs out of these ewes never seem to get finish on them till they are fifty kilo plus without feed at an early age.The fault doesn’t lie with the ram breeders, but of those that continue to bid up on those types of rams, and big, framey ewes to put them on.
The ram breeders (or a lot of them) are ultimately just supplying that demand.
Crossed with a Suffolk or Texal the lambs out of these ewes never seem to get finish on them till they are fifty kilo plus without feed at an early age
How you get on a Exeter todayHad a pen of stores in Exeter today. Miss fit bunch mostly bought sub 25kg a while back.
All 42kg now or there abouts which is ok but a bit if flesh on them.
Made £75.50.
Got a nice pen of char and Texal cross to come in Monday at 44kg. Time me will tell if they should have been in today as well.
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Would anyone buy texel yearlings that were in lamb to a texel . Seems a recipe for disaster to me. Ok if you like pulling lambs, or am I wrong .
I know someone with 90 he wants to sell due to illness . I know he had to lamb most of them as hogs. Why didn’t he put a Charolais on them?
To be fair, there are Texels and there are Texels. Plenty round here putting Texel rams over Texel x Mule ewes, producing 3/4 terminal lambs that sell well. Some don't seem to count their work either though.