Confessions of the Sheep/Beef Cattle/Pig Addicts

[DieselRob]

I think people who have made good money this time will be keen to try again and those who missed out will be even more keen no matter what the fat is.

It’ll be those that end up getting their fingers burnt. Couple of folk I know have gone too hard at the smart end stores and had to hold far too long to get out on them. 2 years ago they got lucky with trade lifting and then last year they got burnt

 

[spark_28]

I'd expect them to be £25 -£30 more but it all depends on the fat price in the autumn

Think I'll be keeping all my lambs into the start of next winter. Got the hill ground for it. Not like they will be taking up space.

 

[Gulli]

I had 4 calve unassisted last week only 18month old and great little mothers, they must have snuck under a single electric and got bulled by hereford …

I had one calve this morning at 24 months and ten days.
Her 2nd calf first one was at 14 months, spat it out in the field with all the other youngstock

 

[unlacedgecko]

£140-150 for your £100-110 types

£100 for your £50-60

So my £70 lambs should be £105 this year?

 

[unlacedgecko]

Who will be the registered dam?

The cow in the photo.

 

[Skintagain]

So my £70 lambs should be £105 this year?

Why not? Most lambs have wintered and added £80-£100 so £35 back to the breeder seems if anything too little

 

[livestock 1]

It’ll be those that end up getting their fingers burnt. Couple of folk I know have gone too hard at the smart end stores and had to hold far too long to get out on them. 2 years ago they got lucky with trade lifting and then last year they got burnt

I might have the years wrong but kept 500/700 hoggs over in 2012 did fairly well out of them 2013 decided to do 3000 and sold them all for £60 ish

 

[S J H]

Why not? Most lambs have wintered and added £80-£100 so £35 back to the breeder seems if anything too little

If my lambs went up £35 as stores, I’d sell them all as that and not bother with them as hoggs, i don’t think the moneys that good to keep them through at that, would much rather sell as one lot in September and not have the risk.

 

[DieselRob]

I might have the years wrong but kept 500/700 hoggs over in 2012 did fairly well out of them 2013 decided to do 3000 and sold them all for £60 ish

What’s your crystal ball saying to do for this next year?

 

[unlacedgecko]

What’s your crystal ball saying to do for this next year?

Sell the farm and move to a desert island. Spend what little life he has left on a sunkissed beach in the company of dusky maidens smoking grass and drinking rum.

 

[Skintagain]

If my lambs went up £35 as stores, I’d sell them all as that and not bother with them as hoggs, i don’t think the moneys that good to keep them through at that, would much rather sell as one lot in September and not have the risk.

Job will settle to bring enough out of the woodwork for the buyers some folk will hold out some folk will take the bribe

personally outing them all in September is great but I want at least £100 to do so. £60 doesn’t float my boat in this day and age

 

[livestock 1]

What’s your crystal ball saying to do for this next year?

No idea I just remember what I did in reaction that year kept more over then they were crap everyone else had the same idea so the job was overdone
Might be a bit more resilience in the trade these days if I dare say that
Don’t take any advice off me I thought hoggs would struggle to be 300p by March they are £1 a kilo more than I thought they would be at the moment

 

[Skintagain]

No idea I just remember what I did in reaction that year kept more over then they were crap everyone else had the same idea so the job was overdone
Might be a bit more resilience in the trade these days if I dare say that
Don’t take any advice off me I thought hoggs would struggle to be 300p by March they are £1 a kilo more than I thought they would be at the moment

You thought I was nuts

 

[livestock 1]

Sell the farm and move to a desert island. Spend what little life he has left on a sunkissed beach in the company of dusky maidens smoking grass and drinking rum.

Actually I was having a serious discussion with the wife about this for planning ahead the other day

 

[DieselRob]

No idea I just remember what I did in reaction that year kept more over then they were crap everyone else had the same idea so the job was overdone
Might be a bit more resilience in the trade these days if I dare say that
Don’t take any advice off me I thought hoggs would struggle to be 300p by March they are £1 a kilo more than I thought they would be at the moment

You're not the only 1 who didn’t expect it, pre season I had planned to get stuck in and buy a lot more than I did but it just didn’t feel right at the time esp when pre Christmas trade was sub 300ppk

Hindsight is always 20:20

 

[Anymulewilldo]

@Anymulewilldo will have to get someone to halve the depth of his pockets otherwise he’ll never reach at those prices

I’ll take sheep on tack for you. Don’t worry about me

 

[Skintagain]

I wouldn’t be looking forward to buying a lot of stores this year

 

[Anymulewilldo]

I might have the years wrong but kept 500/700 hoggs over in 2012 did fairly well out of them 2013 decided to do 3000 and sold them all for £60 ish

2013 I paid £62 in Skipton for mule wethers in November. Sold them for £69 the following April.

 

[Anymulewilldo]

If my lambs went up £35 as stores, I’d sell them all as that and not bother with them as hoggs, i don’t think the moneys that good to keep them through at that, would much rather sell as one lot in September and not have the risk.

Store price was getting sorely tempting last November I must admit. In mid January I wished I’d just taken it and sold them, then by mid March I was glad I hadn’t. But yes, stores at £120 in august… I’d be having a draw

 

[Anymulewilldo]

You're not the only 1 who didn’t expect it, pre season I had planned to get stuck in and buy a lot more than I did but it just didn’t feel right at the time esp when pre Christmas trade was sub 300ppk

Hindsight is always 20:20

Well I did tell you to get stuck in…