Price of sheep ration

Green farmer

Being ringing around pricing ewe and lamb nuts and lamb finisher. The cheapest 18% for the ewes are €280+ and €300+ For lamb finisher. Considering you can buy cattle rations for well less then this, are the lower grain prices being passed on to the sheep industry this year ?

premier10

Got Sheep ration today, bags, 18% protein, €265/tonne probably bit cheaper loose. Don't know about the rest.

grassroot1

Soya bean meal, barley and beet pulp nuts plus molasses and mins/vits 280 euro in bulk
as above but with some barley replaced with maize and oats 285 euro.
available in Wexford

Nekarsulm

McCabes of Canningstown, Cavan, 21% ewe and lamb, 300 /ton. coarse ration in approx 650 bags.

davidk1394

Green farmer wrote: »

Being ringing around pricing ewe and lamb nuts and lamb finisher. The cheapest 18% for the ewes are €280+ and €300+ For lamb finisher. Considering you can buy cattle rations for well less then this, are the lower grain prices being passed on to the sheep industry this year ?

If you buy cattle ration sheep will drop like flies in 1 week... copper if cattle feed is toxic to sheep

Green farmer

You wouldn't be wrong there. Other then the copper taken out of sheep rations, do the raw ingredients for cattle rations be much different to sheep ? I was asking a rep recently why cattle fattening ration is €230 at the moment but the sheep fattening is €290. I got a vague answer.

ganmo

There shouldn't be a massive difference in ingredients, few years ago we got a beef ration with no minerals and they did fine on it
We switched because the lambs just weren't performing on the lamb ration so switched and a few mineral buckets