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Buying running lambs to sell as shearlings
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<blockquote data-quote="Dkb" data-source="post: 7250330" data-attributes="member: 62962"><p>We used to do a good bit of this when I was in school before we increased the ewe flock size.</p><p></p><p>You’ll never really loose money. But you might only break even in a bad year. In a good year you’ll make a very nice profit compared to workload and the other years you’ll just kind of make enough to keep you at it for another year. Workload is minimal. Little bit of dosing and vaccinating on arrival the odd fluke dose over the winter and then a few lame ones every now and then. </p><p></p><p>It won’t work with bad ewe lambs as they’ll be bad shearlings. And it won’t work with the beat ewe lambs either as your competing against buyers that are are going to lamb them As ewe lambs and put them into their own flocks.</p><p></p><p>We always targeted the 40-44 kg lowland ewe lamb in September October. This would be area influenced of course. </p><p></p><p>They were good enough to thrive on and not as dear as the 50kg lambs. We always looked for ewe lambs that hadn’t gotten meal so you’ll have to go around handling them looking for the ones that aren’t mud fat.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dkb, post: 7250330, member: 62962"] We used to do a good bit of this when I was in school before we increased the ewe flock size. You’ll never really loose money. But you might only break even in a bad year. In a good year you’ll make a very nice profit compared to workload and the other years you’ll just kind of make enough to keep you at it for another year. Workload is minimal. Little bit of dosing and vaccinating on arrival the odd fluke dose over the winter and then a few lame ones every now and then. It won’t work with bad ewe lambs as they’ll be bad shearlings. And it won’t work with the beat ewe lambs either as your competing against buyers that are are going to lamb them As ewe lambs and put them into their own flocks. We always targeted the 40-44 kg lowland ewe lamb in September October. This would be area influenced of course. They were good enough to thrive on and not as dear as the 50kg lambs. We always looked for ewe lambs that hadn’t gotten meal so you’ll have to go around handling them looking for the ones that aren’t mud fat. [/QUOTE]
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