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got to make financial sense hasn’t it by the time there’s a call out vet time plus meds it’s never going to pay you back
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They’ve never dropped out to me, we collect when we know we are near them or have a dog in for treatment etc. My health plan bill isn’t 3 figures but still more than my annual Betamox/alamycin spend BUT I don’t have store lambs or alamycin could be higher. Health plan done over the phone.got to make financial sense hasn’t it by the time there’s a call out vet time plus meds it’s never going to pay you back
There seems to be an awful lot of Zolvix used by Forum members.I thought that the BVA were telling people to use it sparingly as it was the wormer of last resort? What happens when it is resistant and ineffective?
I’ve just had a flick through the book. According to my records the last year we blew real money on stores was 2014. Buying September - mid December, selling February - April with a £15 margin between incoming price and out going price. That was mule wethers and texel crosses. Ironically the only lambs that year that made a healthy profit were a pen of 40 swale x herdwick wethers out of Skipton, mid December cost £38 incoming, went late February @ £74.50. All straight off dairy grass. Grandad went mental when I bought them. Looking back it could have been them that started me on the horned lamb job?I know there been plenty bad years but it’s been quite a few years since there was fudge all money in the … bought correctly of course…
I think thats what it will be like this year. £80 incoming. £95 out.I’ve just had a flick through the book. According to my records the last year we blew real money on stores was 2014. Buying September - mid December, selling February - April with a £15 margin between incoming price and out going price. That was mule wethers and texel crosses. Ironically the only lambs that year that made a healthy profit were a pen of 40 swale x herdwick wethers out of Skipton, mid December cost £38 incoming, went late February @ £74.50. All straight off dairy grass. Grandad went mental when I bought them. Looking back it could have been them that started me on the horned lamb job?
Although they did cause 1 good wintering man too ban me from ever sending horned hoggs too him again. His farm is well fenced but he couldn’t keep them in!!
That’s what worries me.I think thats what it will be like this year. £80 incoming. £95 out.
I think thats what it will be like this year. £80 incoming. £95 out.
That’s what worries me.
You don’t need store lambs to buy RR’sHark at you guys, trying hard to talk the trade down before it's started.
@hill shepherd is expecting you to step up to the mark, having doubled your money in the Spring. Surely you can't all have spent it on fancy new Range Rovers and their repair bills?
I’ve spent it on breeding sheep and suckler cows! rightly or wrongly who knowsHark at you guys, trying hard to talk the trade down before it's started.
@hill shepherd is expecting you to step up to the mark, having doubled your money in the Spring. Surely you can't all have spent it on fancy new Range Rovers and their repair bills?
I use zolvix or startect when the lambs are weaned and moved to clean grazing (then never worm again) and any sheep that I buy in gets it and kept in the shed for a couple of days to kick the worms out before they hit my grass. I don't think that over use at all, in fact use of wormers at all is bugger all these days as just cydectin lean ewes and hoggs at lambing, white wormer for lambs at 6 weeks and the zolix at weaning. No lambs run on the permanent pasture between weaning and April when the ewe hoggs come back.There seems to be an awful lot of Zolvix used by Forum members.I thought that the BVA were telling people to use it sparingly as it was the wormer of last resort? What happens when it is resistant and ineffective?
Just reading a few of these posts, do people regard the yellow wormer as pretty much redundant now ?
Nope, I use it as part of the rotation. I might not use it every year but it still has a placeJust reading a few of these posts, do people regard the yellow wormer as pretty much redundant now ?
Just to put it out there I don’t always follow the advise of “professionals”
I think thats what it will be like this year. £80 incoming. £95 out.
They’ll learn! it would be nice, don’t get me wrong. But we’ve been kicked often enough too be sceptical of jam tomorrow…Seems to be a lot of new folk buying stores who are budgeting on selling their lambs for well over £100.