Best market for cull ewes within 100 miles Somerset

[Shepard 16]

Looking for the best place to sell cull ewes

 

[goodevans]

@Wolfinsheepzclothing might know ,but you would need to take some luck money

 

[JSmith]

@Wolfinsheepzclothing might know ,but you would need to take some luck money

I wouldn’t take much notice of him if I were you!!

 

[ed g]

Sedgemoor or hereford

 

[bobk]

@Henarar @gone up the hill

 

[Henarar]

We take them to Sedgemoor on a Saturday and sell them as grazing ewes

 

[gatepost]

Hereford, impressive set up. Worcester can have a very good trade for the best sorts but is a red market.

 

[JSmith]

I would say Bridgnorth has one of the dearest ewe trades out of the above mentioned, this has also been confirmed to me by a buyer who was moaning that in his words “it’s one of the dearest places for killing ewes”

 

[tinsheet]

Cutcombe, South Molton, Exeter, Sedgemoor, All much of a muchness in my experience.

 

[steveR]

I would say Bridgnorth has one of the dearest ewe trades out of the above mentioned, this has also been confirmed to me by a buyer who was moaning that in his words “it’s one of the dearest places for killing ewes”

Good to know

 

[gatepost]

My neighbours always take great pleasure in telling me I should have sold at this or that market ''would have made more'', one of them kept on and on about one market, until I took some ewes, very good, so kept going there, neighbour then asked how I was getting on, turned out he had never been himself, just reading reports. As you can only sell an animal once, you never really know if it was better or worse, only if it really falls out of bed, and the number of irate chaps stomping around complaining about market scales, put your hand on the 'wet backed gutty stores!

 

[pauld]

Ours go to Worcester but I have never gone anywhere else to compare. Happy with £105 for lleyns last week. 500 plus cull ewes every week so presumably plenty are happy with trade.

 

[Shepard 16]

That sounds more like it had 88 some big fleshed mules at Sedgemoor and had hoped for a bit more

 

[gatepost]

£106 for medium sized Tex cross fit ewes at Cirencester last week if that helps, we will have to whisper or it will get moved to the market thread.

 

[Estate fencing.]

£106 for medium sized Tex cross fit ewes at Cirencester last week if that helps, we will have to whisper or it will get moved to the market thread.

But you always get a good trade at Cirencester, the average man might not get the same.

 

[gatepost]

But you always get a good trade at Cirencester, the average man might not get the same.

Not sure how to take that, but I'll treat it as a compliment, as I'm short of friends this week.

 

[Henarar]

But you always get a good trade at Cirencester, the average man might not get the same.

not the first one to say that

 

[Estate fencing.]

Not sure how to take that, but I'll treat it as a compliment, as I'm short of friends this week.

It was a compliment, your sheep always make more than anyone else and rightly so.

 

[Hfd Cattle]

Im not sure any trade is worth chasing if it's a 100 miles away but Hereford has been consistently very good and the facilities are good . I suppose if you have a hundred to get rid of and you get an extra £3 a head for travelling it's worth it . I note that sheep of all sorts are travelling a long way to Hereford and so are the buyers .

 

[neilo]

Im not sure any trade is worth chasing if it's a 100 miles away but Hereford has been consistently very good and the facilities are good . I suppose if you have a hundred to get rid of and you get an extra £3 a head for travelling it's worth it . I note that sheep of all sorts are travelling a long way to Hereford and so are the buyers .

I’ve seriously considered it for heavy ewes, and I’m 50 miles from Hereford but 7 from Welshpool.