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Must be a few home now , how was trade ?
berrichons sound a bit cheap , and cambridge quite good ,
seems to have been the story this year around all the salesCan only talk for the Texels. Shearling tups to 8.5k ewes to 2k ram lambs to 3.2k. Strong commercial trade throughout. Some picked lots flew. Second raters just didn't sell.
seems to have been the story this year around all the sales
And a thoroughly good thing it is too.
to many hangers on in every breed , not interested in advancing anything just riding the coat tails of everyone else, keeping feed companies going
Way too many people breeding tups and bulls these days
There's loads of tups and bulls at sales want hanging up....it's just wasting time at breeding salesThere'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.
A Frenchman told me nobody in France want Berrichons any more.
What did border Leicesters do?
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 kingA link to the sale report.
http://www.nationalsheep.org.uk/workspace/rs-pdfs/gb_final-main-sale-averages-2017-1-.pdf
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
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 agoMost of the shearlings at those sales aren't fed any less than the lambs, they're just fed for a lot longer.