Selling your lambs, a poll!

[DB67]

Interesting to see how everyone markets their lambs over the course of a year. What's the preferred choice of tff members?

Private poll.

 

[Northeastfarmer]

All live here

 

[yellowbelly]

All live except for a few in boxes for private customers.

 

[Ladybird]

Badly!!!![emoji24][emoji24][emoji24]

Mixture of live and deadweight.

 

[spin cycle]

what commission do marts charge?...heard my local mart is 15% +7.5% buyers.....can't think it's true....thats a tenner on a £70 lamb for seller.....and a tenner for buyer after levies

 

[Northeastfarmer]

what commission do marts charge?...heard my local mart is 15% +7.5% buyers.....can't think it's true....thats a tenner on a £70 lamb for seller.....and a tenner for buyer after levies

Behave...

 

[GTB]

All deadweight here. Have two good abattoirs closer than a decent live market. Could take them to a local live market but they'd end up in the same abattoir as they do now but for a knock down price.

 

[spin cycle]

Behave...

 

[Northeastfarmer]

15%?!

 

[spin cycle]

15%?!

thats what my vet told me..@norfolk n sheep was there he can staighten it out....what do pay?

 

[Northeastfarmer]

thats what my vet told me..@norfolknsheep was there he can staighten it out....what do pay?

Think it's 2.95% around £2-£3 a lamb anyway

 

[spin cycle]

Think it's 2.95% around £2-£3 a lamb anyway

sounds about right....think the vet must have it wrong

 

[GTB]

I think Welshpool charge 4% ? Other marts around here 2.5 to 3%

@neilo

 

[norfolk n sheep]

Yes, as your scanning results, the vet was wrong

 

[exmoor dave]

Badly!!!![emoji24][emoji24][emoji24]

Mixture of live and deadweight.

Haha! know the feeling

 

[John100]

Yup around 3% commission on livestock

 

[exmoor dave]

Used to sell everything live

Then everything dead

Now bit of both, often put some through the ring and some on the collection lorry on the same day, both at same market so easy to do.

 

[Woolless]

Pretty much all deadweight here. Fallen out with the local mart since I got an absolute kicking with some hoggs in the spring and auctioneer didn't return my (very polite) call.

 

[CharcoalWally]

thats what my vet told me

@spin cycle , does your vet have a sideline in deadweight sales??

 

[yellowbelly]

what commission do marts charge?.

Ours is 3.75% but unfortunately it doesn't end there......