Contract lambing work

[Tess21]

Evening all,

Just wondering what most other people are charging per hour for lambing work.

I've been contract lambing for a number of years, I tend to run lambing sheds of 500-600 ewes dealing with calcium cases, prolapses and difficult lambings etc... the only assistance I tend to get is help coming to take ewes and lambs out from the shed to the field. (Everything is scratched and drenched by me before they are taken out).

I know it's predominantly subjective to experience, I'm definitely not an expert but have been lambing for 6+ years and I'm just wondering if I'm under charging currently.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Many thanks

 

[aangus]

A few questions I would like to ask first are you working on your own, days or nights, 500 in a shed is a handful or two

 

[Tess21]

Evening all,

Just wondering what most other people are charging per hour for lambing work.

I've been contract lambing for a number of years, I tend to run lambing sheds of 500-600 ewes dealing with calcium cases, prolapses and difficult lambings etc... the only assistance I tend to get is help coming to take ewes and lambs out from the shed to the field. (Everything is scratched and drenched by me before they are taken out).

I know it's predominantly subjective to experience, I'm definitely not an expert but have been lambing for 6+ years and I'm just wondering if I'm under charging currently.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Many thanks

A few questions I would like to ask first are you working on your own, days or nights, 500 in a shed is a handful or two

Yes predominantly by myself roughly 80% of the time. Days and nights

 

[aangus]

£15-18/hr

 

[aangus]

What do you do for the rest of the year when not lambing?