Coximus
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WHY?
SIMPLE?
I sold 9 DW this week as I had commitments all week and just wanted these gone for a clean sweep on the 2017 lamb crop.
All were finished and about 45-48kg live, but gutsy as been on poor ground and are my homebred closed flock type composite.
Every single one came in between 21.5 and 22.5kg.... which is bit better than normal for mine - but why do they stop paying at 21kg? The other lamb dfoesnt go in the bin, it gets sold.... so to me its just a scam to steal meat?
At least live the pkg might drop but you get paid on every kg.
That and I sell some direct myself and eat my own..... The only downside to a bigger animal is sometimes the leg is too big to cook so has to be cut down - but given most gets processed or diced or steaked anyway surely its better to have big stock to kill - same fixed slaughter overhead but more per KG again.
Feel even more that DW is always long term a looser....
No live sales then what? 21kg but suddenly if its E its 24 and R grade 19.... goals changing to make sure no one scores.
SIMPLE?
I sold 9 DW this week as I had commitments all week and just wanted these gone for a clean sweep on the 2017 lamb crop.
All were finished and about 45-48kg live, but gutsy as been on poor ground and are my homebred closed flock type composite.
Every single one came in between 21.5 and 22.5kg.... which is bit better than normal for mine - but why do they stop paying at 21kg? The other lamb dfoesnt go in the bin, it gets sold.... so to me its just a scam to steal meat?
At least live the pkg might drop but you get paid on every kg.
That and I sell some direct myself and eat my own..... The only downside to a bigger animal is sometimes the leg is too big to cook so has to be cut down - but given most gets processed or diced or steaked anyway surely its better to have big stock to kill - same fixed slaughter overhead but more per KG again.
Feel even more that DW is always long term a looser....
No live sales then what? 21kg but suddenly if its E its 24 and R grade 19.... goals changing to make sure no one scores.