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Sheep profitability

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  • #32
    cattle man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 201 ✭✭cattle man


    ganmo wrote: »
    If I was expanding I'd be keeping more ewe lambs and reducing culling
    We sell 40 ish 3/4 yo breeding ewes every year and culls sold seperately so there are genuine sellers out there

    Yes exactly seeing ewes on done deal now 3 and 4 year olds suppose to be genuine but you just don't know. If they were genuine then they would be good value as less lambing trouble and high scanning percentage over hoggets. But maybe for the extra 30-40 euro I might be better with young fresh sheep


  • #33
    Icelandicseige
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 452 ✭✭Icelandicseige


    rangler1 wrote: »
    Id just be afraid of the reason for selling 3 -4 yr olds, we'd cull about 120 here every year and i could pick out 30 smashing looking ewes out of the culls, but every one would have a history of doing something......lack of milk, prolapse, rejecting lambs, ring womb, etc....and no one would ever guess by looking at them

    Would you cover the slats first with something before putting in the straw?
    Would you have trouble emptying the tank?


  • #34
    rangler1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,497 ✭✭✭rangler1


    Icelandicseige wrote: »
    Would you cover the slats first with something before putting in the straw?
    Would you have trouble emptying the tank?

    Nothing on the slats, just roll the round bales out like a carpet on the slats,
    I put 5ft water in the tanks at the start, probably will get hell agitating it alright, slats are from 1977 so probably wouldn't hold up cattle now, plenty of cracks.
    Clean out the bedding every year with a levelling bucket on a micro digger, to keep weight down


  • #35
    Green farmer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,004 ✭✭✭Green farmer


    rangler1 wrote: »
    we'd cull about 120 here every year and i could pick out 30 smashing looking ewes out of the culls, but every one would have a history of doing something......lack of milk, prolapse, rejecting lambs, ring womb, etc....and no one would ever guess by looking at them


    Agree with rangler, Went through my ewes this evening. Had some really nice Looking ones, some as young as hoggets that I had marked earlier in the year as culls , and I cannt remember why they were marked as they look perfect. Was tempted to keep then around, but going to stand firm and
    Send them to factory.


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