what are pet lambs worth?

[SteveHants]

How did they manage to turn lambs into pork!

Magic!

 

[gone up the hill]

I share some, but not all, of his pessimism. I can’t see these prices being anything other than temporary I’m afraid.

Don’t tell @gone up the hill , but I know what my minimum price will be at any point in the next 12 months, which certainly gives me confidence in buying the milk powder.

Each to their own, if you want to sigh a contract for your lambs and end up like the chicken/pig boys who signed such contracts a few years ago and look at those sectors now!! on the floor and rock bottom prices and that will happen with sheep/cattle if people are daft enough to sign such contracts!

As an aside i have noticed on TFF the last few weeks @neilo that the only posters talking down the sheep trade none stop is hard left EU remainers like yourself!

 

[exmoorromney]

What are 2+ week old strong lambs making in market now?

 

[muleman]

Mine are worth a gay bit now with what thev supped!

 

[Quaddog]

I’ll sell some for ten pounds. Texel cross. One to three weeks old.

 

[Anymulewilldo]

Under a week, straight off the ewe £5.
Over a week or had the bottle £10
No picking, take what I give you. Suits me grand. I just don’t want the hassle of rearing Cade lambs. I’ve a couple of regulars who’ve been having them for years. Sometimes they make a decent packet per lamb, sometimes they don’t make a penny. I don’t begrudge them a good do, by gawd they earn it!

 

[Agrivator]

We have been selling young lambs with their mothers at £85 each. So each time a lamb dies, it seems that we've lost £85.

But a philosopher would say that if you are selling young lambs at £85, (or £120 at 10-month old), you can afford to lose a few on the way. It's when prices are at rock bottom that you can't afford to lose them.

 

[Keepers]

I’ve averaged £17 so far this year, plenty people been picking up from farm but they tend to want ewe lambs or “pretty ones”
When I get tired of a group I take them to market
Probably would have been worth a proper set up, even if a shepherdess feeder and doing it well
Will see what next year brings, if I can warrant it may sort a better system

 

[Al R]

Anyone jealous that I have no pets

 

[Bill dog]

Anyone jealous that I have no pets

Fancy mine ?
25 of the wee sods , kids love them for a day or 2, then I seem to get them again !
Thank god for the heatwave machine!

 

[Fendt516profi]

We have been selling young lambs with their mothers at £85 each. So each time a lamb dies, it seems that we've lost £85.

But a philosopher would say that if you are selling young lambs at £85, (or £120 at 10-month old), you can afford to lose a few on the way. It's when prices are at rock bottom that you can't afford to lose them.

You'd be better splitting family and selling lambs @ £85 and selling ewes fat where they'd make more

 

[scrubbuster]

I got a bottle of Jack Daniels for 3

 

[Agrivator]

You'd be better splitting family and selling lambs @ £85 and selling ewes fat where they'd make more

Call yourself a Yorkshireman. And if thoo isn't a Yorkshireman, thoos just as daft as if thoo wos. ( sorry, just joking)

Who would pay £85/hd for orphan lambs at two to four weeks of age.?????? And singles with their mothers can make £90.

It's interesting that a number of buyers prefer singles to twins and will pay more per head. They sell quicker, and if the ewe goes wrong in a quarter, her single lamb will survive better than would a pair of twins.

 

[ShooTa]

2 month old lambs got £20 in ruthin the otherday - less than impressed/

 

[Northeastfarmer]

2 month old lambs got £20 in ruthin the otherday - less than impressed/

Why bother selling them at that age? The hard work is done

 

[andybk]

2 month old lambs got £20 in ruthin the otherday - less than impressed/

would have drank £20 worth of milk at that age

 

[ShooTa]

not really enough time to integrate them into the flock - both males and trade seemed good at the mart - was expecting 30 odd....
im not a fan of not seeing the buyers bid atm- theres already enough of a murmer of rings happening for me.