What’s in lamb sheep going to be worth

[livestock 1]

And there was me thinking it was looks that made sheep attractive too you hill boys? I didn’t realise the time of year held sway too?

It always amazes me that a bit of sunshine and time of year makes all the difference
A bad spring and no one wants inlambers up here

 

[michael N123]

Just lamb them at current fat lamb prices even extra pet lambs will look profitable

 

[Anymulewilldo]

Just lamb them at current fat lamb prices even extra pet lambs will look profitable

Emphasis on “look”

 

[michael N123]

Emphasis on “look”

Hire in a auto feeder be grand

 

[neilo]

Hire in a auto feeder be grand

This. I'm happy to spend £50 rearing a cade well if I can sell them to average over £100. Surely a no-brainer with lamb prices where they are?

 

[michael N123]

This. I'm happy to spend £50 rearing a cade well if I can sell them to average over £100. Surely a no-brainer with lamb prices where they are?

@valtraman theres a fella at long Marton who services and hires out feeders so don’t need to arse on with bottles

 

[Anymulewilldo]

This. I'm happy to spend £50 rearing a cade well if I can sell them to average over £100. Surely a no-brainer with lamb prices where they are?

I don’t know, the maths is good but they always seem to just be a PITA when you’ve plenty of other stuff too be doing? I still think selling them at 4-7day old for £10 for someone else too rear works better for me personally.

 

[Mc115reed]

This. I'm happy to spend £50 rearing a cade well if I can sell them to average over £100. Surely a no-brainer with lamb prices where they are?

Think your maths might be a bit off… last year my cades had £40 of milk powder, £30 of creep… then the hay and straw and time… oh and the dead ones…

 

[neilo]

Think your maths might be a bit off… last year my cades had £40 of milk powder, £30 of creep… then the hay and straw and time… oh and the dead ones…

On a machine, mine got through just over half a bag of milk powder (£25) and 30kg of lamb creep (£10), then straw, water, electric, vaccine (x2) and 5% losses. A handful went early (£100) and the rest were turfed in with my weaned lambs and currently being sold at £125-135.

I wouldn’t entertain it without a proper machine (which cost £175 approaching 20 years ago) though. Messing about with bottles, or even a Shepherdess type thing, just wouldn’t get done on time and the last thing I’d want to pee about with last thing at night. A machine means they take next to no time on a daily basis.

 

[Mc115reed]

On a machine, mine got through just over half a bag of milk powder (£25) and 30kg of lamb creep (£10), then straw, water, electric, vaccine (x2) and 5% losses. A handful went early (£100) and the rest were turfed in with my weaned lambs and currently being sold at £125-135.

I wouldn’t entertain it without a proper machine (which cost £175 approaching 20 years ago) though. Messing about with bottles, or even a Shepherdess type thing, just wouldn’t get done on time and the last thing I’d want to pee about with last thing at night. A machine means they take next to no time on a daily basis.

Do you record them properly? Find it hard to believe you had Cade lambs fit too kill off half a bag of milk powder and just over 1 bag of creep…

Cade lambs last year never left the shed and everything they had went in a bucket and I counted it all out once the last one went they had had 3 and half bags of creep each and 3/4 a bag of milk powder in 6 weeks to weaning each, had 3 bales of hay and 2 bales of straw and were killed between 16 and 20 weeks 37kilo average and made £98 average raised on a shepherdess texel X out of either a mule or a suffolk

 

[neilo]

Do you record them properly? Find it hard to believe you had Cade lambs fit too kill off half a bag of milk powder and just over 1 bag of creep…

Cade lambs last year never left the shed and everything they had went in a bucket and I counted it all out once the last one went they had had 3 and half bags of creep each and 3/4 a bag of milk powder in 6 weeks to weaning each, had 3 bales of hay and 2 bales of straw and were killed between 16 and 20 weeks 37kilo average and made £98 average raised on a shepherdess texel X out of either a mule or a suffolk

Mine was the total amount of milk & bought creep used, split over the number of lambs. Lambs were a spread of ages (born over the lambing period) so the older ones that were sold fat will have eaten more, the younger ones, weaned onto grass, will have eaten less.
Mine were April born, so weaned off pellets onto fresh grass. If they’d been born earlier then I’d probably have kept them in until finished, or at least carried on creeping them.
I always wean at 5 weeks, otherwise they start dropping like flies ime. Those older lambs will put some milk away and look smashing in that last week, right up until you find them blown up with redgut.

 

[Estate fencing.]

Do you record them properly? Find it hard to believe you had Cade lambs fit too kill off half a bag of milk powder and just over 1 bag of creep…

Cade lambs last year never left the shed and everything they had went in a bucket and I counted it all out once the last one went they had had 3 and half bags of creep each and 3/4 a bag of milk powder in 6 weeks to weaning each, had 3 bales of hay and 2 bales of straw and were killed between 16 and 20 weeks 37kilo average and made £98 average raised on a shepherdess texel X out of either a mule or a suffolk

I think mine cost me £67 to rear last year and averaged £96. The first lambs made £130 but the clear out in the end only did £78. Reared on a heat wave with a wydale mixer attached.

 

[Sierra Lama]

Hereford today. Best yearlings were £220-£240 a few pens a bit more. Lots of 2-4 yo scanning 170% around the £150-170 Mark. We bough 40 2,3,4 yo scanning at 180% averaging £159. Tidy White face mules to a texel tup. Would stand them at £57 a life. Fingers crossed for no nasty surprises.

 

[Estate fencing.]

Hereford today. Best yearlings were £220-£240 a few pens a bit more. Lots of 2-4 yo scanning 170% around the £150-170 Mark. We bough 40 2,3,4 yo scanning at 180% averaging £159. Tidy White face mules to a texel tup. Would stand them at £57 a life. Fingers crossed for no nasty surprises.

Where they sevenoaks or that dispersal of aberfields?

 

[Sierra Lama]

Where they sevenoaks or that dispersal of aberfields?

Neither. There was another large consignment of ewes from a farm. Must have been 200 or so ewes from a chap who had passed away. Didn't see them advertised about like the ones you mentioned but they look a genuine bunch of ewes.

 

[Estate fencing.]

Neither. There was another large consignment of ewes from a farm. Must have been 200 or so ewes from a chap who had passed away. Didn't see them advertised about like the ones you mentioned but they look a genuine bunch of ewes.

Big sheep man told me years ago “only time you buy good sheep is when someone dies”

 

[unlacedgecko]

Big sheep man told me years ago “only time you buy good sheep is when someone dies”

f**k that's grim.

 

[neilo]

Neither. There was another large consignment of ewes from a farm. Must have been 200 or so ewes from a chap who had passed away. Didn't see them advertised about like the ones you mentioned but they look a genuine bunch of ewes.

What did the Aberdoodahs make? They were a dispersal as well weren't they?

 

[Estate fencing.]

What did the Aberdoodahs make? They were a dispersal as well weren't they?

Do they come with the prolapse harnesses attached or do you have to fit them yourself.

 

[B Nichols]

Hereford Inlamb ewes and store lambs can only be described as off the clock