Confessions of the Sheep/Beef Cattle/Pig Addicts

[lloyd]

Market to buy some more

Wrong answer

 

[JockCroft]

Hogg Trade has eased a bit, today, but is that because quality/finish is poorer.

THAINSTONE, Aberdeen and Northern Marts (Thursday 21st March 2024) Sold 6,750 Prime Sheep and Feeding Ewes & Rams.
Old Season Prime Lambs (5937) averaged 367p per kg (-20p) and sold to 500p per kg for Beltexs from Bridgeton, Muir of Fowlis and £230 gross for Suffolks from Woodhead, Cairness. Old Season Prime Lambs SQQ up to 45.5kg (3343) averaged 373.5p per kg (- 19.3p).

Feeding Ewes & Rams (813) averaged £104.70 and sold to £285 for a Pure Texel from Halley Farm, Deerness. “A large show of 5,937 prime hoggs continued to sell out at excellent levels with a slight ease back on last weeks record trade. A top of £230 and 500p per kg certainly didn’t look bad at all.
The ewe ring saw another increase in values for all classes

 

[Fendt516profi]

Ok we all know arable farmers go skiing when they have a
good year so what will be the chosen destination or event
for sheep/beef farmers this year?

Market to buy some more

Beat me to it, was going to say breeding sheep sale to buy some more and crash the market the following year

 

[neilo]

Ok we all know arable farmers go skiing when they have a
good year so what will be the chosen destination or event
for sheep/beef farmers this year?

Very few sheep farmers are actually seeing any benefit at all from current trade. Only those that actually have lambs/hoggs to sell now will be seeing any benefit whatsoever, which would be a minority.

Apart from store lamb buyers of course. They won’t be booking a holiday this year, but buying a holiday home somewhere sunny.

 

[livestock 1]

Quite a few hoggs laid up in lairage one place and another this week might have steadied the trade

 

[lloyd]

Very few sheep farmers are actually seeing any benefit at all from current trade. Only those that actually have lambs/hoggs to sell now will be seeing any benefit whatsoever, which would be a minority.

Apart from store lamb buyers of course. They won’t be booking a holiday this year, but buying a holiday home somewhere sunny.

Are you saying shropshire agricultural show is about as good as it gets for most?

 

[Stw88]

Getting to the time when alot of root and grass fed lambs will be starting to appear that wont have the quality finish and kill out as well as hopper fed lambs.

 

[neilo]

Quite a few hoggs laid up in lairage one place and another this week might have steadied the trade

@Hfd Cattle did send his in then?

 

[Bairdy]

We had a spot of good luck this week.
We brought a bunch of heifers in to calve last Wednesday morning. Tueday morning this week a wee calf appears out of the whins in the same field. took in to the shed, it went straight to its mother and sooked. I cant believe the wee fella was out for 6 days without a drink and didnt really look that bad.
Its doing great now, yes our fault for not noticing heifer had calved , but they can be a bit funny, she never roared looking for it anyway.
This is one of these calves that deserves a name and not a number though for sure

 

[Anymulewilldo]

If you were a vendor of hoggs in this sale, would you be happy for them to make this broad brush statement? Personally I’d be pretty f**ked off with themView attachment 1171152

When you only fatten other people’s sh!t… moderate is considered a complement!!

 

[Anymulewilldo]

Market to buy some more

Already ahead of the curve then

 

[Anymulewilldo]

Very few sheep farmers are actually seeing any benefit at all from current trade. Only those that actually have lambs/hoggs to sell now will be seeing any benefit whatsoever, which would be a minority.

Apart from store lamb buyers of course. They won’t be booking a holiday this year, but buying a holiday home somewhere sunny.

I do both! So can I have a holiday somewhere nice please?

 

[Optimus]

We had a spot of good luck this week.
We brought a bunch of heifers in to calve last Wednesday morning. Tueday morning this week a wee calf appears out of the whins in the same field. took in to the shed, it went straight to its mother and sooked. I cant believe the wee fella was out for 6 days without a drink and didnt really look that bad.
Its doing great now, yes our fault for not noticing heifer had calved , but they can be a bit funny, she never roared looking for it anyway.
This is one of these calves that deserves a name and not a number though for sure

How did it not die? 6 days with no milk?

 

[Bairdy]

How did it not die? 6 days with no milk?

It must have had its first feed , then gone and hid before we took them in.
Then sooked on whin juice??
I have no idea how on earth it lived tbh

 

[ritchiekirkland]

Have you got 1000s of dog walkers in your area?
Do you graze very hard into the ground?
Sounds like a pita.

i've got a couple of areas which are regularly used but atm
are in arable rotation.

Plenty dog walkers here, but here wasn’t the problem .
Where all bought in lambs put straight in shed on hopper . They weren’t all from the same farm or anything but it was the same slaughterhouse that binned them all. Had hoggs from same lots at another slaughterhouse and I only had 1 hogg in skip .
Have never used former again .

 

[Optimus]

It must have had its first feed , then gone and hid before we took them in.
Then sooked on whin juice??
I have no idea how on earth it lived tbh

It did well , hope it's a wee heifer calf.

 

[Gulli]

Very few sheep farmers are actually seeing any benefit at all from current trade. Only those that actually have lambs/hoggs to sell now will be seeing any benefit whatsoever, which would be a minority.

Apart from store lamb buyers of course. They won’t be booking a holiday this year, but buying a holiday home somewhere sunny.

Pays to be a bad shepherd this year!

Naturally I sold most of mine store and missed most of the good fat prices

 

[Estate fencing.]

We’ve probably had 20 like it, lamb in fine, strong lambs from good condition ewes. They have milk initially then it disappears after the initial feeds. It sometimes comes back a bit, enough to rear one lamb, but not to normal levels.

We are having a bit of that, just put it do as one of those things.

 

[livestock 1]

We are having a bit of that, just put it do as one of those things.

That happens a lot having one of those things here

 

[livestock 1]

We are having a bit of that, just put it do as one of those things.

How’s lambing going? You don’t have to answer that till nearer the end if you don’t want to