Great that you are getting the ewe lambs you really want. I hope you manage to keep them. I am dismayed on your behalf that your lambs fetch such a low price when the world is running short of food. I bought a NZ leg this Easter and wish I’d listened to my own advice and bought a second leg to go in the freezer. That leg was the best ever. Delicious!
It's hard to find the sweet spot on numbers I always feel at the beginning of a cold wet spring I have 1000 too many ewes 😅, but at the end of a real good growing spring I think I could do with a 1000 extra ewes 😅
Yea mate, this ones a balancing act. None of these are for sale, all capital stock. The 2ths will go to the ram in 3 weeks, the ewe lambs not till next year. The lambs are of concern, but the less wool they have on in winter the better as they run around like silly buggers all the time, and make a huge amount of mud either on swedes or grass. The 2ths can be winter shorn, and I'm tempted to next year. Less wool at lambing means less casting, more eating, they feel the cold so move to shelter (taking lambs with them), but you have to have the feed on hand. We couldn't winter shear everything at our stocking rate though. The wool is also cleaner and higher yielding in winter.
We are on English Welsh border top price here was £200 for 53kg lambs, and I think top price cull ewes same sale was £198 with the average cull ewes £68, those lambs mother's were eating feed costing £400 a ton this time last year, and will have been fed lamb feed at £330 a ton so not all profit, everybody's scanning was 20percent less last year due to a very dry summer,
@@deepsouthsheepbeef4307 not all bad guess the rain brings plenty of grass. Has your lamb price gone up ours have risen in the UK, no advantage to us we sold out some time ago
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Great that you are getting the ewe lambs you really want. I hope you manage to keep them. I am dismayed on your behalf that your lambs fetch such a low price when the world is running short of food. I bought a NZ leg this Easter and wish I’d listened to my own advice and bought a second leg to go in the freezer. That leg was the best ever. Delicious!
Best thing you can do is buy them!I'm not sure whats going so wrong, a great product in demand, but the $$$ just aren't there.
Feed situation looks great going into winter, that swede crop looks outstanding
Cheers mate, still got 60% of works lambs and 75% of cattle on though
It's hard to find the sweet spot on numbers I always feel at the beginning of a cold wet spring I have 1000 too many ewes 😅, but at the end of a real good growing spring I think I could do with a 1000 extra ewes 😅
Hearing ya 😅
I had the same music issue, a hassle haha. Awesome video!
Cheers mate!Yea, asking the shearers to turn the radio off is just wrong 😅
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Great video Ben 👌
Cheers mate
Hi I like your video
Gday big fella.
As you know I know nothing about sheep - why shear now when the weather is only going to deteriorate? When will you sell them?
Yea mate, this ones a balancing act. None of these are for sale, all capital stock. The 2ths will go to the ram in 3 weeks, the ewe lambs not till next year. The lambs are of concern, but the less wool they have on in winter the better as they run around like silly buggers all the time, and make a huge amount of mud either on swedes or grass. The 2ths can be winter shorn, and I'm tempted to next year. Less wool at lambing means less casting, more eating, they feel the cold so move to shelter (taking lambs with them), but you have to have the feed on hand. We couldn't winter shear everything at our stocking rate though. The wool is also cleaner and higher yielding in winter.
Hi sort out which ones to keep
Heavy cull ewes making 650 dollars, 30 kg lambs making 445 dollars in Northern Ireland, in England add on 100 dollars
Not going to last tho don't worry about that
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We are on English Welsh border top price here was £200 for 53kg lambs, and I think top price cull ewes same sale was £198 with the average cull ewes £68, those lambs mother's were eating feed costing £400 a ton this time last year, and will have been fed lamb feed at £330 a ton so not all profit, everybody's scanning was 20percent less last year due to a very dry summer,
Those sweeds look well, did you plant any maize this year
Nah, El Nino tends to bring summer rain, and has. Will do it again in La Nina years.
@@deepsouthsheepbeef4307 not all bad guess the rain brings plenty of grass. Has your lamb price gone up ours have risen in the UK, no advantage to us we sold out some time ago
Nope, things are pretty dismal. Equivelant to £3/kg
@@deepsouthsheepbeef4307shit not good, that's dead weight I presume, some here have been up to £4 kg live weight,
Is it winter that’s the pinch point as far as stocking rate goes? Or more wet/dry season? Is joining ewe lambs not an option where you are?
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