What to do with tup lambs?

Guiggs

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Location
Leicestershire
Best way of making a few quid without spending too much?
Longer keep suffolks out of welsh types, don't want them around forever, thinking of just grazing them through the winter and selling on,
Should I offer them some hard feed?
All feed would need buying in, Will it/ they pay?
 

sean m

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Northants
Best way of making a few quid without spending too much?
Longer keep suffolks out of welsh types, don't want them around forever, thinking of just grazing them through the winter and selling on,
Should I offer them some hard feed?
All feed would need buying in, Will it/ they pay?
put them in the stores next week,they will never be worth more
 

Guiggs

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Location
Leicestershire
I personally would buy something more saleable for your area, conti x, grow them on and when your out of grass pass them on.
Or have I got it wrong and you already have them?
I've not got them yet, been offered them with some ewe lambs that I've got coming, just weighing up what to do!
 
If they're cheap and you've got decent grass they might be alright. Keep them growing slowly then put them on ad-lib pellets early spring. I've had to do this for the first time this year. Four weeks on pellets transforms them. Will do my sums once the grading sheet comes back on Monday. Can't say I enjoy feeding them like pigs, though. Particularly when they probably burn off most of it off bumming/fighting/sniffing each other's knobs 😡
 

Ysgythan

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Ammanford
Best way of making a few quid without spending too much?
Longer keep suffolks out of welsh types, don't want them around forever, thinking of just grazing them through the winter and selling on,
Should I offer them some hard feed?
All feed would need buying in, Will it/ they pay?

they won’t need feed to fatten. Grass, dose when you need to, keep trace elements right and they’ll be fine.
 

Anymulewilldo

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Cheshire
At this time of year I’d hope they hadn’t been running with the ewe lambs. Now is when the little ewe lambs get caught!

I’d dose them up and put them in a field with a bit of decent grass. Start offering a touch of beet pulp too get them eating slowly then mid jan start belting corn into them to be away mid feb. I’ve never done any good feeding batches of tup lambs on just grass. Need more power in the feed too make up for the riding and chasing about they do
 

pgk

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This am pulled out the last tup lambs from those we are running on for rams, born April/May on grass/clover, 37.5 to 48kg, only a small number not fit so will start them on clover haylage this week to finish. Difficulty was we had nowhere to keep them away from a bunch of ewes with tup so these last few have been getting a little too excited at times. Be nice if we had a good load of grass as they always finish fine with a bit of green bite ahead of them.
 
This am pulled out the last tup lambs from those we are running on for rams, born April/May on grass/clover, 37.5 to 48kg, only a small number not fit so will start them on clover haylage this week to finish. Difficulty was we had nowhere to keep them away from a bunch of ewes with tup so these last few have been getting a little too excited at times. Be nice if we had a good load of grass as they always finish fine with a bit of green bite ahead of them.
Normally I get mine finished no problem on a clover/plantain mix but I left one field a year too long and the plantain has all but disappeared out of the other one, so that wasn't an option. Needed them away from the ewe lambs too and needing the grass for tupping, so housing was the only option left.
 

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