Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

[digger64]

One of the good things about the breed of sheep you have is that providing you don't feed them grain then they will not cut teeth until very late May or even June if lambed in April.
Some breeds seem to get teeth earlier than others or possibly it is what they are eating.

Mind this last week there was very little difference in the price of those with teeth!!

what difference does feeding grain make ?

 

[Devil's advocate]

Most of mine are the type that need time

Herbideen's or Herdwick's?

 

[livestock 1]

Herbideen's or Herdwick's?

Horned stuff and other general smaller end

 

[andybk]

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Saturday 27th April 2024
Today at a glance.......

1870 Cattle Penned

3386 Sheep Penned

Dairy Cattle (75) Cows sold to £2700

Calved Heifers sold to £2280

Store Cattle (1135)

Steers sold to £1840
Bulls sold to ££1635
Heifers sold to £1640

Stirks (354)

Steers sold to £1380
Heifers sold to £1095

Calves (306)

Bulls sold to £540
Heifers sold to £370

Sheep (3386)

Store Lambs (933) sold to £206 av £131.38
Cull Ewes (1278) sold to £350

Goats (32) sold to £210
Orphan Lambs (77) sold to £95

Couples (1066) Doubles sold to £348 Singles sold to £265

 

[Frank-the-Wool]

what difference does feeding grain make ?

Probably the dry feed wearing away the milk teeth and incisors coming through.

 

[Skintagain]

Probably the dry feed wearing away the milk teeth and incisors coming through.

And they are developing quicker of growing and fleshing

 

[Devil's advocate]

And they are developing quicker of growing and fleshing

I've had really well grown hoggs with 4 teeth by early June, anyone else?

 

[Anymulewilldo]

I've had really well grown hoggs with 4 teeth by early June, anyone else?

Yes, when some bloody Scotsman has slipped a tiny shearling in with a pen of lambs

 

[Top Tip.]

Yes, when some bloody Scotsman has slipped a tiny shearling in with a pen of lambs

As if we would do such a thing, more likely one off your own left over from the year before!!

 

[Skintagain]

I've had really well grown hoggs with 4 teeth by early June, anyone else?

Charolais?

 

[Anymulewilldo]

As if we would do such a thing, more likely one off your own left over from the year before!!

I know I have a Suffolk here that’s due his 2nd cutting of teeth and he’s still not fit he’s celebrating Quirbani regardless this year

 

[Northern territory]

what can you actually do about teeth even if you mouth them it makes no difference, you just have to swallow it

 

[Skintagain]

I know I have a Suffolk here that’s due his 2nd cutting of teeth and he’s still not fit he’s celebrating Quirbani regardless this year

Bloody hell some bad suffs about

 

[Skintagain]

what can you actually do about teeth even if you mouth them it makes no difference, you just have to swallow it

Personally I don’t check them ever. If a mart pulls some out and the buyers try robbing them they come home on trailer.

 

[Northern territory]

Personally I don’t check them ever. If a mart pulls some out and the buyers try robbing them they come home on trailer.

What do you do next though, take them the week after

 

[Skintagain]

What do you do next though, take them the week after

I fill everyone’s freezer I can and if I can’t shift them that way I wait for festival time when trade lifts and it doesn’t seem to matter.

 

[Northern territory]

I fill everyone’s freezer I can and if I can’t shift them that way I wait for festival time when trade lifts and it doesn’t seem to matter.

They don’t seem to have taken the p1ss as much in recent years I have found, dead weight is a different story

 

[Skintagain]

They don’t seem to have taken the p1ss as much in recent years I have found, dead weight is a different story

If you are taking big fleshed hoggs in that buyers like it makes no odds. I wouldn’t go pointing them out you are asking for a tanning

 

[Northern territory]

If you are taking big fleshed hoggs in that buyers like it makes no odds. I wouldn’t go pointing them out you are asking for a tanning

Who points them out? they teeth them and if they find them you take your medicine.

 

[Stw88]

They don’t seem to have taken the p1ss as much in recent years I have found, dead weight is a different story

I had one on last load that I hadn’t checked. deducted to ewe price which was £5/kg less! 5 had put them up out of the last load to go so took them to the mart, don’t think they were checking but they were a lot better than ewe price but still not as good as they would have been on the hook as standard hoggs.