Titivate or not

[DartmoorEwe]

Run out of grass here so selling the last of the lambs at the store market tomorrow. Don't tend to sell them live so this is new to me. What do buyers want?

 

[Northeastfarmer]

What do buyers want?

Them cheap

 

[It was already broken.]

Usually different to what you are selling. Also don't believe whatever to market have published on the infonet about prices they have achieved. They can and do lie.

 

[DartmoorEwe]

Usually different to what you are selling. Also don't believe whatever to market have published on the infonet about prices they have achieved. They can and do lie.

Oh they don't lie ... they don't publish anything at all. They say if I want to know the prices I have to go to the sales.

Them cheap

Hey guys, if you want some cheap store lambs come to Tavistock Livestock Market tomorrow.

 

[Bury the Trash]

Run out of grass here so selling the last of the lambs at the store market tomorrow. Don't tend to sell them live so this is new to me. What do buyers want?

what are they and how many?

 

[It was already broken.]

Some round here lie. I have caught one lot out in the last week. Thought it was going on in the culls so noted all the prices during the sale and all have been inflated by £10 a head on the market report for the week. Was going to start a row with them but whats the point, it won't change anything.

 

[DartmoorEwe]

16, 8 sbf and 8 sbf x lleyn. They've had Hep P twice, Footvax twice and fluked 4 weeks ago. They're small so I don't expect much for them but they are lively and they know how to eat, I just don't have any more grass to give them.

 

[CharcoalWally]

Beggin ' yer pardon @DartmoorEwe , but I misread the thread title as Titilate Or Not. .....

I'll be off now. ...

 

[Bury the Trash]

16, 8 sbf and 8 sbf x lleyn. They've had Hep P twice, Footvax twice and fluked 4 weeks ago. They're small so I don't expect much for them but they are lively and they know how to eat, I just don't have any more grass to give them.

whats sbf ?
I would prob. be interested. Pm me if you like ..

 

[Devon James]

whats sbf ?
I would prob. be interested. Pm me if you like ..

Scotch black face?

 

[neilo]

Beggin ' yer pardon @DartmoorEwe , but I misread the thread title as Titilate Or Not. .....

I'll be off now. ...

I admit that I did too, to the extent that I just scrolled back up to check.

Oops!

 

[Bury the Trash]

Scotch black face?

 

[neilo]

Ultimately pure sbf or sbf x Lleyn is never going to be a great finished lamb. It is what it is and it’s never going to set the world alight in the store or fat ring.

Tidy them up by dagging if needed, as anyone else surely would, but other than that, I don’t see how you can add a lot of value to them without feeding (& spending).

 

[Kidds]

Friend at Beeston took theirs back home again at £12/lamb today.

 

[Nithsdale]

Ultimately pure sbf or sbf x Lleyn is never going to be a great finished lamb. It is what it is and it’s never going to set the world alight in the store or fat ring.

Tidy them up by dagging if needed, as anyone else surely would, but other than that, I don’t see how you can add a lot of value to them without feeding (& spending).

Shows what you know, sir!!


Pure Blackie is sold into many top end London restaurants because of its quality

 

[neilo]

Shows what you know, sir!!


Pure Blackie is sold into many top end London restaurants because of its quality

So are you suggesting that they will indeed set the fat ring alight? Or that the fat ring buyers are disconnected with that huge market that is the top end London restaurant? I thought they were all clammering to buy Herdwicks, reared in their natural environment? Or ‘salt marsh’ lamb, for it’s exquisite taste?

How many of these ‘top end’ restaurants are there? And will the chefs all be at Dartmoor Ewe’s store mart?

 

[Nithsdale]

So are you suggesting that they will indeed set the fat ring alight? Or that the fat ring buyers are disconnected with that huge market that is the top end London restaurant? I thought they were all clammering to buy Herdwicks, reared in their natural environment? Or ‘salt marsh’ lamb, for it’s exquisite taste?

How many of these ‘top end’ restaurants are there? And will the chefs all be at Dartmoor Ewe’s store mart?

I should have highlighted the part where you said they are not great finished lambs?

Meat yield is low, so they command a lower price than lowland terminal cross lambs so of course they won't set the trade alight... but that does not diminish the meat quality.

 

[neilo]

I should have highlighted the part where you said they are not great finished lambs?

Meat yield is low, so they command a lower price than lowland terminal cross lambs so of course they won't set the trade alight... but that does not diminish the meat quality.

Hmmmm. Would that only apply if they were reared and finished on a Scottish mountain somewhere though? I somehow doubt that ‘meat quality’ would be any better if they were reared in the same way as any other store lamb.
It still doesn’t help the OP trying to sell store lambs to best advantage at her local mart though.

 

[Nithsdale]

Hmmmm. Would that only apply if they were reared and finished on a Scottish mountain somewhere though? I somehow doubt that ‘meat quality’ would be any better if they were reared in the same way as any other store lamb.
It still doesn’t help the OP trying to sell store lambs to best advantage at her local mart though.

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The meat quality will be no worse as anything else, if they are finished like any other store lamb... so your comment is still off. You are the one who said they are a poor finished lamb - it's simply not true.

 

[Al R]

Friend at Beeston took theirs back home again at £12/lamb today.

A, have they got horns and balls?
B, how many?
C, are all pens like that?

@DartmoorEwe how come you’ve footvaxed twice?