Ewe Hoggets

kk.man

Folks I've a few nice female hoggets from last years store lambs purchase ...when would be the peak/best time to sell them ?

charolais0153

The first sale at our mart is usually the dearest

geros29

They were doin really well in kenmare last Monday. Good ones making around 140 as far as I can remember.

ganmo

geros29 wrote: »

They were doin really well in kenmare last Monday. Good ones making around 140 as far as I can remember.

For quality breeding ewe hoggets you'd want closer to 200

charolais0153

What do people normally pay for hoggetts. 180-190 usually

razor8

ganmo wrote: »

For quality breeding ewe hoggets you'd want closer to 200

Only if your selling!!...

Siamsa Sessions

Some nice ones made €200 in Tullow last week

arctictree

I planned to sell into this market this year but looks like I'll have to keep them for replacements.

Its a nice earner if you have a bit of extra ground to keep them for the year and they are not much work. And you have to be getting €200!

Green farmer

I'm a ewe lamb buyer. Long way to fall if one of them hoggets keel over.

Username John

arctictree wrote: »

I planned to sell into this market this year but looks like I'll have to keep them for replacements.

Its a nice earner if you have a bit of extra ground to keep them for the year and they are not much work. And you have to be getting €200!

Would have said 180+ anyways

The ewe lambs could be sold in March for ~125

So, carry them for another 5-6 months after this, should be reflected in the price. I would have thought 140 would be a bad price...

But - having said all right, I am the same as GreenFarmer - I would buy a few ewe lambs, dont buy hoggets.

arctictree

You just have to be careful when buying hoggets. My replacements were selected last August based on performance and separated from the main flock.

Whats to stop someone from just holding back the smallest of their ewe lambs, keeping them over the spring/summer and then selling them as breeding hoggets in the Autumn?

My advice to the buyer would be to either stick with ewe lambs or only buy farmers stock but that would be expensive.

charolais0153

The people I buy hoggetts off buys them off farmers a year before and sells them on

stantheman1979

We buy stores this time of year. Usually buy on farm in bigger groups and there will generally be a few ewe lambs with them. Well take off the ewe lambs put them in lamb and sell them in the spring. You can buy lambs around now for 75-90 and sell them for 130 upwards depending on the yr in the spring without doing much with them!!