- Location
- Montgomeryshire
Lanark texel sales, today.
- Thread starter Greythundercloudys
- Start date
whether you like it as an analogy or not that’s the way of the world, and always has been.
clod hopper
Member
- Location
- SHREWSBURY, shropshire
I know what your saying but this is their target market not your 350 pound commercial rams. Ever since pedigree stock was created there have been people who try to buy a reputation, good luck to them. They never last long, gets too hard and move on to other breeds or something else but someone else is always keen to jump in there shoes. It will not change. Human nature sadly.
Poor muscle depth too lean and no arse according to that, overall index made up of supposed superb growth rate, a turner is just a painting from the man who is sought after, I have a local artist, who has sold paintings for a few thousand, he says once you have got one sold to hang in a corporate board room then the rest follow, because they don't want to miss out or be seen to miss out, Good luck to Charlie and family they have invested for years, they have a good reputation for being straight, but unfortunately I don't think it has much to do with the man who knocks on my door to buy a tup, and the real problem with the whole job is the thousands of unsold, not quite good enough embryo Lanark day types, which are flooding the market from folk who don't do it for their living, that's where it affects folk like me, in the pocket. Any how I liked your 1st lamb in, and pleased you got him away for good money, he had the bits that are needed.
That is a big big problem. These folk have been sucked into buying high price gimmers at winter in lamb sales. More often than not they breed lambs that don't live up to the price tag of their mother, but people keep flushing and flushing hopeing some frozen semen will click. It doesnt seem to matter to these people that they're throwing good money after bad, nevermind any health issues the ewes have either.
I wish there was a way of establishing rules within the society that ewes cannot be flushed unless they meet certain health criteria as a minimum and have reared lambs naturally for X number of years. Whether they breed well enough could be up to the owners discretion, but at least it would set a precident for prioritising maternal and health traits. Unfortunately policing this would be nigh on impossible unless the DNA/genomics programme is ramped up further and would likely add significantly more cost.
The thing with the embryo side that gets me is a fair lot of folk will keep Texel x ewes, with all these embryo lambs on the ground there can be no real indication of how maternal the traits these rams pass on will be as they are born out of & reared by x ewes/gimmers.
That’s very kind of you. They’re needed but not necessarily wanted in that location. Valuable lesson learned.
that was the case when the technology first arrived. They considered a donor MOT but fell down on the side of not being a Nanny to breeders.
when you’re selling nobody, and I mean nobody, does any research on the dam apart from looking at a picture, show results and progeny sales. You could say the vendors and purchasers deserve each other.
sheepwise
Member
- Location
- SW Scotland
Think my son had your lamb marked as a right carcase lamb when viewing the night before. Don't think he got started on the online bidding though. What number was he and I'll check with him?
the girls lamb was 200
my parents lambs were 424 and 425
If he had 425 he had the bargain of the day (century) and I wish him all the best with him.
sheepwise
Member
- Location
- SW Scotland
Sorry must have mistaken you for another Welsh lamb. How did your's sell?
muleman
Member
Which perhaps shows its not as much of a 'set up' job as some people think....if it was the 350 gns one would have had another 1 or 2 noughts put on the end!
- Location
- Scottish Highlands
Getting exciting over there still @Jim75?
Looks like my pick is back top of the tree, but still an hour or so to go.
livestock 1
Member
Yes exactly. The head always comes out it’s what’s coming behind that doesn’tI would be more concerned about the width of his shoulders than I would about his head.
Woolless
Member
- Location
- Berwickshire, Scottish Borders
I might hold you to that!
He looks like he's wearing my Uncle's old Army Jersey. But without a tatoo on his arm.
Woolless
Member
- Location
- Berwickshire, Scottish Borders
As I suspected, a nose-end to die for!
- Location
- sw scotland
The farm manager quoted on BBC as saying it is an obscene sum for a sheep but that's what it takes for the right genetics.
Well, maybe.
Well, maybe.