Flock Sizes

[spark_28]

@spark_28 BF and fixed pen better use deer netting buried in the ground. We just put hames on one, couldn't see anywhere that she and her lamb were getting out onto the road. Caught her squeezing through the very tight fence wires, showing the offspring the ropes .

I know!!!

It's going to be 8ft high block walls with no gaps anywhere for horns or heads to get under

Bizarrely they aren't too bad on fences as fences are almost completely alien to them as they live high up on the hill....the Hebrideans however are very much clued up on ways to get under them

 

[Jasper]

We spend an absolute fortune on our ewes at work, expensive mules, there houses for 3 months, 60kg head cake, plenty of lambing staff and sheep get every treatment and vaccine, all with an aim to sell 200%. My own are completely opposite, cheap home bred or bad bred mules, no feeding at all, lamb on there own and never get any vaccine just keep them wormed and cliked, aim to sell 150%. Make almost identical profits out of the 2 systems

Please can you explain profit .Is it something from the old days

 

[Nithsdale]

Please can you explain profit .Is it something from the old days

Profit;
Noun


Definition: Tax Burden.

 

[Wood field]

I think it was touched upon on the “ f**k up fortnight “ thread
we jest “ what do you do after breakfast “ but all farms are different grass growth to climate to terrain.
We lambed 500 this year ( still some to do) and run 100 replacements, that on my own exept this years vet students
Better ground I would run 1000 .
Average flock I believe to be around 350/400
But the figures will be distorted by the 50 ewe farm as well as the 3,000 ewe farm
After a crap year, as long as I am happy and there’s food on the table then that’s all I want

 

[primmiemoo]

What sort of profit would you have woth 100-150 ewes (ish )

The Farm Business Survey run by defra has stats, if you're feeling brave ~

Farm Business Income in England, 2023/24 forecast

www.gov.uk