Spring lamb prices

downtown3858 · 05-03-2021 09:41AM

What price you get

weatherbyfoxer · 05-03-2021 09:42AM

downtown3858 wrote: »

What price you get

700 flat

arctictree · 06-03-2021 01:26PM

Got €123 for 41Kg wether lambs earlier in the Mart. Thats the last of last year's lambs gone.

Some mad prices earlier. Lads getting €80 for 25kg hoggets!!

Tileman · 06-03-2021 02:32PM

arctictree wrote: »

Got €123 for 41Kg wether lambs earlier in the Mart. Thats the last of last year's lambs gone.

Some mad prices earlier. Lads getting €80 for 25kg hoggets!!

Was that baltinglass? Was there many sheep there

arctictree · 06-03-2021 02:52PM

Tileman wrote: »

Was that baltinglass? Was there many sheep there

Yep. About 30 lots, a lot were single lots though.

eire23 · 06-03-2021 03:13PM

arctictree wrote: »

Got €123 for 41Kg wether lambs earlier in the Mart. Thats the last of last year's lambs gone.

Some mad prices earlier. Lads getting €80 for 25kg hoggets!!

How could a hogget born last year only be 25kg??! Nearly impossible I'd have thought

arctictree · 06-03-2021 04:49PM

eire23 wrote: »

How could a hogget born last year only be 25kg??! Nearly impossible I'd have thought

I've one like that. Also there was another pen of 2 x 23kg hoggets!!

Green farmer · 06-03-2021 06:15PM

eire23 wrote: »

How could a hogget born last year only be 25kg??! Nearly impossible I'd have thought

Very easy for it to happen. All you need is a lamb that gets rejected by ewe in field, but survives somehow. Never thrives but stays the same.

arctictree · 06-03-2021 07:14PM

Green farmer wrote: »

Very easy for it to happen. All you need is a lamb that gets rejected by ewe in field, but survives somehow. Never thrives but stays the same.

I think they can manage to survive in a flock by robbing a suck off the ewes and starting to nibble grass early.

Green farmer · 06-03-2021 07:37PM

arctictree wrote: »

I think they can manage to survive in a flock by robbing a suck off the ewes and starting to nibble grass early.

Sounds about right. Had a handful of hoggets in today for a cobalt dose and have one like that. A foot smaller then everything else, but fat and healthy. It's like they get stunted and takes alot to get them moving again.

Duke92 · 06-03-2021 08:10PM

Anyone hear what hoggets are for Monday

eire23 · 06-03-2021 08:12PM

Green farmer wrote: »

Very easy for it to happen. All you need is a lamb that gets rejected by ewe in field, but survives somehow. Never thrives but stays the same.

But if you see a lamb going backward in the field because the ewe hasn't enough milk or has been rejected by the ewe would ya not take him off her and put him in with the pets and they will train him to eat. Ya will end up with a good lamb then instead of a stunted poor lamb. It would do my head in to leave a lamb like that and have to go into the field and see him!

rule supreme · 06-03-2021 08:12PM

arctictree wrote: »

Yep. About 30 lots, a lot were single lots though.

Any ewes and lambs there

Green farmer · 06-03-2021 10:13PM

eire23 wrote: »

But if you see a lamb going backward in the field because the ewe hasn't enough milk or has been rejected by the ewe would ya not take him off her and put him in with the pets and they will train him to eat. Ya will end up with a good lamb then instead of a stunted poor lamb. It would do my head in to leave a lamb like that and have to go into the field and see him!

Their easily spotted it you've a handful of ewes, but if you've a big mob in a field, they can go under the radar. Could be a month or two old by the time theyd look anyway different to the other lambs. Quiet often at first dosing of lambs. At that stage it's probably mid summer and grass is growing and your pet lambs weaned. the stunting has probably taken effect at that stage.

Dickie10 · 06-03-2021 10:24PM

lads would you still feed ewes with lambs in field meal after lambing, i always did for about a month but they have great grass this year seems a waste, but i also know the pressure a ewe with two lambs is under once lambs are 4-6 weeks old

eire23 · 06-03-2021 10:29PM

Green farmer wrote: »

Their easily spotted it you've a handful of ewes, but if you've a big mob in a field, they can go under the radar. Could be a month or two old by the time theyd look anyway different to the other lambs. Quiet often at first dosing of lambs. At that stage it's probably mid summer and grass is growing and your pet lambs weaned. the stunting has probably taken effect at that stage.

Can't agree with ya there green. Maybe if ya had a few hundred ewes in one lot ya could miss a lamb going backward but anything around the 100 ewe mark with twins running should be no bother at all.

kk.man · 06-03-2021 10:29PM

Dickie10 wrote: »

lads would you still feed ewes with lambs in field meal after lambing, i always did for about a month but they have great grass this year seems a waste, but i also know the pressure a ewe with two lambs is under once lambs are 4-6 weeks old

You have good meath ground there, i wouldn't if I was you. This evening I brought meal to my dry ewe hoggets, I got a feeling they weren't as egar for the grub. Better kept for lambs in creep feeder imo.

charolais0153 · 07-03-2021 02:54AM

Dickie10 wrote: »

lads would you still feed ewes with lambs in field meal after lambing, i always did for about a month but they have great grass this year seems a waste, but i also know the pressure a ewe with two lambs is under once lambs are 4-6 weeks old

Tetany be a worry

epfff · 11-03-2021 12:41PM

720 is best of what I'm hearing?
What's being paid atm?

DJ98 · 11-03-2021 12:54PM

Have a bunch of ewe lambs here that I kept, but kept more than required, there weighing between 35 and 45 kg at the moment and are Suffolk X cheviots, I had planned on selling them as breeders during the summer but with current prices would I be aswell to sell now?

wrangler · 11-03-2021 12:57PM

charolais0153 wrote: »

Tetany be a worry

I have good grass too, I give them Hi mag buckets from the start so they know how to eat them when the big demand comes at 3 -4 weeks old.
If they have 7 or 8 cms grass under them they shouldn't need meal, soil temp is 8 degrees this morning so grass should be growing

Dinzee Conlee · 11-03-2021 03:15PM

DJ98 wrote: »

Have a bunch of ewe lambs here that I kept, but kept more than required, there weighing between 35 and 45 kg at the moment and are Suffolk X cheviots, I had planned on selling them as breeders during the summer but with current prices would I be aswell to sell now?

35 would be too light IMO. 35kg killing at 45% would be just less than 16kg...

40kg at 45% would be 18kg, at 7euro/kg would give you 126euro before deductions...

What mature weight would they come into as sheep DJ?

Bass Reeves · 11-03-2021 03:21PM

Dinzee Conlee wrote: »

35 would be too light IMO. 35kg killing at 45% would be just less than 16kg...

40kg at 45% would be 18kg, at 7euro/kg would give you 126euro before deductions...

What nature weight would they come into as sheep DJ?

Them sort of lambs should fly now if you had grass for them. I expect that they put on nearly 2 kgs/ week LW. That would make them around 45kg the week after Easter. At present weight they would kill poorly and as well grade badly. They could be heavier than you think as well. I be inclined for good grass and the week after Easter. If prices hold you be looking at 140/ head

Dinzee Conlee · 11-03-2021 03:42PM

Bass Reeves wrote: »

Them sort of lambs should fly now if you had grass for them. I expect that they put on nearly 2 kgs/ week LW. That would make them around 45kg the week after Easter. At present weight they would kill poorly and as well grade badly. They could be heavier than you think as well. I be inclined for good grass and the week after Easter. If prices hold you be looking at 140/ head

If you wanted them gone, horse ration into them as much as you could for a few weeks would be worthwhile as well...

That's what I am doing with some I have that didn't do well. Few weeks of ration and leave them off...

Robson99 · 11-03-2021 07:52PM

You need to get as much ration into them as possible. Grass alone won't finish them

kk.man · 12-03-2021 12:37AM

Robson99 wrote: »

You need to get as much ration into them as possible. Grass alone won't finish them

And outside they might use up too much energy in poor weather.

Bass Reeves · 12-03-2021 01:04AM

kk.man wrote: »

And outside they might use up too much energy in poor weather.

It all depends on if you have grass. Lamb will thrive outside of they have access to good grass. I bought hill lambs a few times a n November. They be 20-25 kgs on arrival. I used only buy 4-5 so used to have to take what I get. I feed them 2-300 grams on grass over the winter. They be just trundling along until early February but from that to late March they bomb along. I slaughter them for the freezer the last week in March. The carcasses would be 24-28 kgs DW.

I weight them lambs to be sure of there weight. If only 35 kgs I rise them with a drench like Albex. I have them on grass ( if I had it) and build them.up to a kg of ration. Problem with killing them at 35 kgs LW is you may get penalised for poor flesh cover and they may grade very poorly. Any weight put on with a high level of ration will cost you 2.7-3.5/kg if LW or 6-7 euro/ kg of DW. They will also take a week to get used to the ration. On grass they be costing you 50c/ day Inc ration.

However you will need grass.

Kevhog1988 · 12-03-2021 01:31AM

Bass Reeves wrote: »

It all depends on if you have grass. Lamb will thrive outside of they have access to good grass. I bought hill lambs a few times a n November. They be 20-25 kgs on arrival. I used only buy 4-5 so used to have to take what I get. I feed them 2-300 grams on grass over the winter. They be just trundling along until early February but from that to late March they bomb along. I slaughter them for the freezer the last week in March. The carcasses would be 24-28 kgs DW.

I weight them lambs to be sure of there weight. If only 35 kgs I rise them with a drench like Albex. I have them on grass ( if I had it) and build them.up to a kg of ration. Problem with killing them at 35 kgs LW is you may get penalised for poor flesh cover and they may grade very poorly. Any weight put on with a high level of ration will cost you 2.7-3.5/kg if LW or 6-7 euro/ kg of DW. They will also take a week to get used to the ration. On grass they be costing you 50c/ day Inc ration.

However you will need grass.

They will perform over twice as well indoors rather than grass and concentrates according to the teagasc research. Id be inclined to agree with it too from what I've seen here.

charolais0153 · 12-03-2021 02:57AM

Kevhog1988 wrote: »

They will perform over twice as well indoors rather than grass and concentrates according to the teagasc research. Id be inclined to agree with it too from what I've seen here.

Grass is more powerful this time of year than autumn or winter , grass and meal to finsih

Kevhog1988 · 12-03-2021 10:06AM

charolais0153 wrote: »

Grass is more powerful this time of year than autumn or winter , grass and meal to finsih

Im not seeing much grass growth here at the moment. soil temp was just starting to rise and we had an absolute deluge of rain the past week or so.

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