Buying lambs and ewes in spring selling in winter?
- Thread starter Morganwyn
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- Location
- Cheshire
Occasionally... lots of other people do it so outfits for feeding and breaking aren’t cheap! I often wonder how the fellas that buy my old mule ewes with twins make them pay at the end when they give me £60/life in late April!
It depends on what you buy. I don’t think there is a lot of money in the old mules and ok lambs, but good Suffolk and continental ewes and nice lambs are a better buy. I sell old mules and lambs as well as 2 crop Suffolk cross ewes, I think I do well out of selling the mules and not so well out of the Suffolk’s but it really helps my cash flow.
- Location
- Galway Ireland
Haven’t seen many sold here yet but loads of inlamb ewes making €150-280 which is lots more expensive than other years
Is your next thread going to be - is there any profit to be made selling snow to eskimos?
serf
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- Location
- warwickshire
Don't think see many ewes / lamb couples under £60 this time if the prices carry on as are now !
Not a huge upside for profitability, and more potential hassle (fly strike, footrot, etc) than grazing dairy heifers, in my view.
- Location
- sw scotland
Have you given up buying store cattle instead
- Location
- sw scotland
Bought at £180 and sold for £300 last week.
Not at the minute it's in over supplyIs your next thread going to be - is there any profit to be made selling snow to eskimos?
- Location
- Cheshire
Alright. But how often does that happen?? The last few years the ewe has been £60 too kill in the autumn after weaning. And the lambs have been anywhere from £68-£85 sold July-September 41-45kgs.
I wouldn’t budget ANYTHING on this last 12 months just yet! It’s like the dairy men hitting 36ppl and borrowing heavily against that, only for the price too drop too 27ppl within 6 months...
That’s why I thought about cattle first but I haven’t got anywhere to keep them over the winter
Someone else’s cattle with them doing everything an you just holding your hand out for a cheque is the easiest option!! But as for sheep being more hassle than cattle, wouldn’t life be boring an to easy if there was no hassle involved, everybody would be a livestock farmer if it was hassle free an the lambs were a £150 every year all year round!! It’s when the lambs are £60 an the cull ewes are £50 that the pretenders bail out the job!! I hope I’m wrong but if people think they won’t have the lamb job back to the £80-£90 mark by the middle of the year then I want some of the drugs there on!! But I am a glass half empty kind of guy so could be totally wrong
- Location
- Loch lomond
What kind of price are grit ewes just now .I am going try and buy thirty five regular aged mules from a neighbour all scanned in lamb to a beltex , scanned 194% just wondered if anyone had an idea of rough price.
- Location
- Cheshire
- Location
- Loch lomond
Thanks£140-£180 depending on the quality of the ewes.
- Tags
- continental dairy sheep