Blackie tup lambs

[Greythundercloudys]

A lamb made 160 grand at Lanark, l saw blackie stores make 6£ at stifling . people read this and wonder why farmers are always moaning.

 

[CopperBeech]

Many making six quid at Stirling?Just found myself with some roots I’ve got to make a plan for!

 

[muleman]

A lamb made 160 grand at Lanark, l saw blackie stores make 6£ at stifling . people read this and wonder why farmers are always moaning.

every right to moan if your selling store lambs for £6

 

[spark_28]

every right to moan if your selling store lambs for £6

agreed but would be interesting to know the weight/size of these lambs. FTR if that was my lambs questions would need to be asked as to why they are fetching such a small price? its not viable so changes would have to be made.

 

[DB67]

Well you’ve used two extreme examples.

The 160k was on paper the best blackface lamb of the year. One at £6 is clearly a runt.

Why people continually get their knickers in a twist over blackface tup prices I’ll never know. The auctioneer isn’t running them up, it’s folk bidding. Can’t say I know many non fermers who are aware of it either, you might get one or two who would ask why such a high price. Rams and bulls of good stock should always be a good trade otherwise what’s the incentive to produce them.

And if the 160 generitcs filter down to the bottom commercial producer, there will be less £6 lambs as he was a massive beast with good carcass aswell as breed character.

 

[M-J-G]

Well you’ve used two extreme examples.

The 160k was on paper the best blackface lamb of the year. One at £6 is clearly a runt.

Replace the R with a C if it's only worth £6

 

[jemski]

I’ve seen pics of some of the £6 lambs on twitter. They aren’t as small as you’d imagine

 

[jemski]

Ok I was wrong. Not blackies and not Stirling but...

 

[jemski]

 

[NZDan]

Well you’ve used two extreme examples.

The 160k was on paper the best blackface lamb of the year. One at £6 is clearly a runt.

Why people continually get their knickers in a twist over blackface tup prices I’ll never know. The auctioneer isn’t running them up, it’s folk bidding. Can’t say I know many non fermers who are aware of it either, you might get one or two who would ask why such a high price. Rams and bulls of good stock should always be a good trade otherwise what’s the incentive to produce them.

And if the 160 generitcs filter down to the bottom commercial producer, there will be less £6 lambs as he was a massive beast with good carcass aswell as breed character.

And poor back pasterns and a weak back line.

 

[NZDan]

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Should be pretty easy to turn a profit on them.

 

[jamesy]

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There wouldn’t be much meat there if you clipped them? Wonder what weight?

 

[NZDan]

There wouldn’t be much meat there if you clipped them? Wonder what weight?

if a prime lamb at 40kg is going for 60 quid, then if they cost 10% of 60quid they're probably 10% of 40kg surely

 

[CopperBeech]

They could be a bargain or you could end up with a load of dead lambs.

Are we hearing about odd pens? Or is this whole runs of lambs from a variety of sellers?

A lamb isn’t cheap at six quid if it does and costs you another five quid before them and £15 to get rid of!

 

[jamesy]

if a prime lamb at 40kg is going for 60 quid, then if they cost 10% of 60quid they're probably 10% of 40kg surely

Aye

 

[Guiggs]

£6??? I'll take my chances for that, if you chuck in delivery to Leicestershire

 

[Nithsdale]

This was all covered in the other thread.

OP is very misleading quoting a bottom price for sale. Withouthat giving top, and the avg - or even saying whether the lambs were of any quality. It deliberately paints a false picture of general trade.

There's also plenty Blackie tups sold for little money - know several farms who average only just reached £300 last week. No mention of that either, for any sort of balance.