Big breeding sheep sale at ua, Stirling.

[Greythundercloudys]

Alsorts of sheep there tomorrow, yeld ewe hoggs etc, l wonder if alot will go for killing.

 

[M-J-G]

If they're killing price they'll almost certainly be killed, breeding price needs to be a premium on fat.

 

[Greythundercloudys]

I expect them to be above killing price myself. 5000 supposed to be there.

 

[Agrivator]

But they're only Mules, Texel crosses and Blackface.

Now, if they were Lleyns, Shedders, Exlanas, Romneys......... the sky's the limit

 

[Bob the beef]

With the amount of pictures and videos of tarted up mules and blackies on FB this weekend, I reckon a lot of sellers hoping for big things tomorrow

 

[Greythundercloudys]

Defo, those bf hoggs haven't been eating rushes all winter, in big order, on dairy farms down in dumfries.

 

[Kip]

I wonder how they will get on without Richard being there

 

[Greythundercloudys]

Where has he gone

 

[Nithsdale]

Defo, those bf hoggs haven't been eating rushes all winter, in big order, on dairy farms down in dumfries.

Are they?

 

[Kip]

Where has he gone

That’s the big question?? I think he’s concentrating on stuff at home at the moment

 

[Greythundercloudys]

Who will be selling them tomorrow.

 

[Greythundercloudys]

They've been on good grass somewhere.

 

[Kip]

Who will be selling them tomorrow.

Peter Wood probably sell the most and Richard Henderson will sell some.
They lost two main men recently, Luke Holmes at Huntly is away to Dingwall

 

[Greythundercloudys]

Auctioneers are always moving about.

 

[Hilly]

Defo, those bf hoggs haven't been eating rushes all winter, in big order, on dairy farms down in dumfries.

Defo, one here has them tweedside for winter brings them how for photo shoot on the heather then to Mart , bit of joke

 

[Greythundercloudys]

Yes it's obvious they've been away wintered, Heather and rushes don't grow them like that, probably watch abit on webcam at dinner time.

 

[Agrivator]

Blackface hoggs, summered with their mothers on the hill, but then wintered away on good lowgound grazing, will invariably perform better as gimmers than their counterparts wintered at home.

They are better grown and have been replenished by all the factors (trace elements etc) that are lacking at home.

And getting the hoggs away means that the gimmers and older stock remaining at home do better.

Hill farming is for shepherds who know what they are doing and who have benefited from generations of experience - its not for folk who ''think' they know what they are doing.

 

[Hilly]

Blackface hoggs, summered with their mothers on the hill, but then wintered away on good lowgound grazing, will invariably perform better as gimmers than their counterparts wintered at home.

They are better grown and have been replenished by all the factors (trace elements etc) that are lacking at home.

And getting the hoggs away means that the gimmers and older stock remaining at home do better.

Hill farming is for shepherds who know what they are doing and who have benefited from generations of experience - its not for folk who ''think' they know what they are doing.

Do you produce a lot yourself ?

 

[M-J-G]

The reality if a hill farm is stocked to keep a number of sheep during the grazing season it will struggle to keep the same stock all winter, so it's a choice of conserving forage, buying in feed or wintering sheep away from home.
Away wintering often makes more sense.
I don't see the problem with that policy, however I do take exception to those who say their sheep are wintered on a hill when they are kept on another farm on grass.

It's like the guys at the bull and ram sales who say their farm sits at a thousand feet, what difference does that make to an animal that lives at a trough or hopper.

 

[Hilly]

The reality if a hill farm is stocked to keep a number of number of sheep during the grazing season it will struggle to keep the same stock all winter, so it's a choice of conserving forage, buying in feed or wintering sheep away from home.
Away wintering often makes more sense.
I don't see the problem with that policy, however I do take exception to those who say their sheep are wintered on a hill when they are kept on another farm on grass.

It's like the guys at the bull and ram sales who say their farm sits at a thousand feet, what difference does that make to an animal that lives at a trough or hopper.

Daft ain’t it , vein attempt at marketing but we all know anyway so dosent really matter.