Your enterprise

[DB67]

This isn't intended to be a willy waving competition for farm size by the way. More a look at how diverse our sector is in size and types. A brief overview of what your business is and numbers of stock and acres of arable?

If your 'part time' or have other work then mention it.

I'll kick off.

2000 blackie ewes (half kept pure, half crossed with blue), 500 BF ewe lambs kept as replacements, 400 scotch mules (crossed with texel). All lambs sold fat or breeding and 80 mainly Lim x sucklers put to Charolais bull with calves sold at 7 months.. Zero arable.

 

[poorsheepfarmer]

400 ewes mix of mule, tex x, lleyn x
100 replacements
Part time

 

[Nithsdale]

450 ewes, 120 ewe lambs (lambed). Lleyn bred, mostly pure now.

90 sucklers - mixed bag but settling onto SimX cows.

All lambs sold direct, calves sold store around 12-15months.



Currently reviewing things - with the intention to up put a few more ewes on, and utilise the poorest ground more.

Theres 2 of us, both full-time. We undertake all work, no contractors or outside help.

 

[beltextexel]

1500 ewes going to the tup this autumn. 200 pure beltex,Texel, tup breeders. 1100 mules,chec mules, Tex x. 200 belt x Tex Hogg to sell with lambs at foot. 20 simmy sucklers. 100 store cattle( not for much longer), 1800 b&b bacon pigs, 1000 ac arable. 5 of us including the old man!

 

[Chris 23]

15 ewes............................... Not sure I can even say part time.

 

[RomneyBob]

140 dairy Holstein Friesian , 650 ewes mainly mules with romneys and Suffolk cross thrown in, and 40 AA sucklers plus 150 acres? arable
Nice to keep things varied

 

[ARW]

7 ewes ... looking to expand

 

[markpentre]

15 sucklers. 50 calfs bought in each year everything kept to about 18 mnth and sold as stores. Part time. Rest of time mechanic/weld/fencing

 

[Bob c]

400 ewe`s
but also a cad drafman as day job

 

[harperfarmer]

500 feb lambing ewes - suffolk x mule/texel x mule to charollais tups
50 sucklers - blue cross dairy going to charolais and lim bulls (expanding to 100 then maybe cut back sheep)
50 bought in store cattle (continental steers)
25 bought in suckled bulls
450 acres arable

Me, dad and one man.

 

[sean m]

600 easycare ewes, 50 to 60 horses at various types of livery,sheep dipping buisness,myself wife and son, i spend a lot of the winter hunting

 

[AvonValleyFarmer]

400 breeding ewes, comprising of NC mules, Texels amd Lleyns, although moving away from the Mules. Mules to Suffolk tups, white faces to Charollais tups.

80 sucklers, with calves at foot, all to Limousin bulls. 80 yearlings, half of which will be sold as stores, half kept for fattening. 40 being fattened at the minute.

On about 400 acres of grassland, also own about 120 acres of arable in a separate block. Just me and my uncle, except at lambing when we have help from a young lad nearby.

 

[Gulli]

40 April lambing ewes
3 ped Hereford heifers and a Hereford bull
Tractor driver/will work for anyone who pays me.

Family farm which is unsurprisingly a complicated setup roughly 200 beef cattle -- 30 odd sucklers, bought in calves everything sold as stores.
On about 110 acres with a fair bit of silage ground and grazing rented here and there.

 

[Johnny400]

Just over 600 went to the tup last year, which included 130 ewe lambs. Mostly highlanders, a few pure charollais and 100 draft cheviots. Put to Highlander, a Logie and Charollais tups. Breeds own replacements and finish all lambs. 250 acres in cereal and forage crops. Me, partish time retired dad and use of some contractors.

 

[Jgs]

200 milkers, 150 heifer replacements and 80 beef X sold store 500 acres all rented, take about 800 sheep over winter too.
Myself, dad and 1 part time

 

[cotswoldcs]

659 ewes to tup last year
180 ewe lambs running dry
300 acres arable land although some of this is growing kale & HLS options.
Myself, 1 full time man, parents help part time.
Some contractors used (shearing, baling) and external help with property repairs. Some contracting done.

oh and 3 weaner pigs now! Contempating Total Domination of Outdoor Pig Sector but keeping numbers roughly the same next year. For now.

 

[Spartacus]

550 breeding sheep, 140 hogs (shearlings now), 50 sucklers but building back up to 60. Not even 40 acres of meadow never mind any arable!