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[Kidds]

A No, the rams they sent made £20

Other than that I don't know, nor do I know anything about sheep or sheep prices. All I know is the last leg of lamb I bought was more than that.

 

[neilo]

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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.

My apologies. Maybe they will make great finished lambs and consequently the store buyers will bid up well for them.

Good luck @DartmoorEwe . As I posted above, I would just make sure they are dagged/crutched, but I can't see what else would improve their store value other than feeding them up (which obviously eats into the price). With the current uplift in finished price, now would be as good a time to cash them in I'd have thought.

 

[DartmoorEwe]

Thanks guys, sorry ... went to bed last night. Just going to load them now. Wish me luck.

 

[yellowbelly]

Thanks guys, sorry ... went to bed last night. Just going to load them now. Wish me luck.

Good luck. See you in Beef/Lamb & Pig Price Tracker tonight

 

[Al R]

 

[DartmoorEwe]

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lol ... I hope I'm not taken for a ride

 

[CharcoalWally]

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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.

They're certainly not a poor finished lamb. When I've had them in the past and stuck them on good dairy grass they've been at £80+ from February onwards.

Put them on decent grass and they will finish as firm as most other lambs.

 

[DartmoorEwe]

I got to the market and the man immediately sorted them into polled/horned. I would have sorted them by size and we ended up with the biggest in with the smallest. Why do buyers not like horns?

 

[Al R]

I got to the market and the man immediately sorted them into polled/horned. I would have sorted them by size and we ended up with the biggest in with the smallest. Why do buyers not like horns?

I wouldn’t buy anything with horns, especially on long term lambs. Are they entire? The only lambs I’ve ever seen with horns has been welsh entire ram lambs that even being a good size were £10/head cheaper than the pen of un horned castrated makes next to them that were smaller animals.

 

[DartmoorEwe]

They were all boys and banded at 24 hours. Most of the lambs (and ewes) at the market today had horns. My pen of little polled mongrels might set a record.

 

[Al R]

They were all boys and banded at 24 hours. Most of the lambs (and ewes) at the market today had horns. My pen of little polled mongrels might set a record.

What sort of weights and what price?

 

[landslave the 2nd]

@DartmoorEwe must be still in market bar celebrating ....... update pleases

 

[DartmoorEwe]

I'd like to say I was out celebrating. Actually at hospital visiting.

I got £28 for the pen of sbf and £38 for the sbf x lleyns

I cut the obvious danglies off in the market but stopped when I cut myself and the lamb - selling animals covered in my blood and dripping their own seemed unlikely to help their value.

They were 17 - 25kg on 13/11 and they will not have changed much.

Thanks for your help and support.

 

[GTB]

Sorry but I've only just seen this thread. Had I seen it sooner I would have advised @DartmoorEwe to stick the lambs in a shed on adlib pellets for a month and they would have easily paid for their grub.