- Location
- Mendips Somerset
Must be a few home now , how was trade ?
Builth sale , how was trade ?
- Thread starter andybk
- Start date
From what I saw
Cambridge tups 3-400
Charmoise tups 3-600. Avg would be around 400. This ring was next door to the blue texels.
Berrichons would be 220-400. Majority 260-280
I had my arm twisted to buy a blue texel ewe...paid 600gns for her..
Kids!
Cambridge tups 3-400
Charmoise tups 3-600. Avg would be around 400. This ring was next door to the blue texels.
Berrichons would be 220-400. Majority 260-280
I had my arm twisted to buy a blue texel ewe...paid 600gns for her..
Kids!
- Location
- Mendips Somerset
berrichons sound a bit cheap , and cambridge quite good ,
A Frenchman told me nobody in France want Berrichons any more.
- Location
- Mendips Somerset
seems to have been the story this year around all the sales
And a thoroughly good thing it is too.
- Location
- Mendips Somerset
to many hangers on in every breed , not interested in advancing anything just riding the coat tails of everyone else, keeping feed companies going
If buyers are selective in quality not price it sends signals to the sellers.
Northeastfarmer
Member
- Location
- Cleveland
Way too many people breeding tups and bulls these days
- Location
- Bedfordshire
There's a lot that think everything that has a set of rubbish is a breeder. I saw someone sold 60 bulls last year and I'm sure they've only got 120 cows.
Northeastfarmer
Member
- Location
- Cleveland
There's loads of tups and bulls at sales want hanging up....it's just wasting time at breeding sales
Nor anyone else id say
chris elk
Member
- Location
- sleaford,lincolnshire
What did border Leicesters do?
Had a quick look at the female trade and it seemed very strong for a breed that's fallen from grace commercially.
A link to the sale report.
http://www.nationalsheep.org.uk/workspace/rs-pdfs/gb_final-main-sale-averages-2017-1-.pdf
http://www.nationalsheep.org.uk/workspace/rs-pdfs/gb_final-main-sale-averages-2017-1-.pdf
- Location
- Mendips Somerset
looks like the shine taken off most prices which is surprising considering its been a good year for sheep all round ,Texels did well as did ch shearlings , was told ch ram lambs not really wanted at exeter sale, seems the same story at builth ,Maybe the feeding is catching up with some breeders .though the story looks like shape is king
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
Most of the shearlings at those sales aren't fed any less than the lambs, they're just fed for a lot longer.
- Location
- Mendips Somerset
yes agreed the smaller flocks would have prob fed since lambs and all winter , though at least some of the shearlings will have been wintered , then steamed up next spring / summer , , bit surprised by the couple of hundred suffolks there were seemingly endless rings of them 30 years ago
shame i missed it intended to go but other commitments got in the way