I agree some of them are a great buy..I'd be looking for ones with a big frame and no meat on them..a good dose/ mineral drenchand some good grass and they will turn inside out. Avoid short butty types that will never grow
Anyone get a price for this week yet? Hoping to bring my last bunch tomorrow evening
€6.80/kg for Kildare.
Sounds low. You have small numbers I think kevin? Heard of 7.00 for larger numbers
Yeah dont have too many. Agent said they are struggling with staff shortages.
Ask your agent is COVID not present in the beef lines...beef going up by the minute up to 4.50 for full trailers...b!"£$%^t
Don't send them lambs and see how that shortage impacts.
Just heard NZ lamb have landed in the UK ..I suspect same in France..that's the reason.
Lambs are fit now. If i hold and the price drops more ill be kicking myself. If it recovers by 20 cent in a week ive gained €4.60 per lamb but will probably have gifted the Factory a kg of free meat at €7 that has cost me about €3 when i take into account meal straw etc. In addition, they are only paying €145 for lambs that are over a dead weight of 25kg. Mine will be heading for 24 now so ill be heading for the chilling tonight.
Ah I know but can be frustrating seeing a drop.
If lamb is worth 6.80, beef must be worth 5.80, it's easy for the price to rise.
No shortage of lambs in Kildare. Artic was emptying as i was there. Lambs from donegal
Kildare and ICM are quoting 6.50 on the 'journal' this week. I always sell the lambs as they become fit, I wouldn't be bothered holding them once they're fit
Lambs were 7.50 around end Nov / start Dec were they?
Now, not sure its a full euro fall, as 7.50 might ahve been hard got, and I'd say more than 6.50 is on the go now - but still, its a good fall...
Wont be selling mine for another few weeks, hope the price is after improving by then... 😖
At that kind of fall you be tempted to hold, let go over weight and sell in the mart. They will get scarce in 2-3 weeks time again. Problem with adlib feeding is a lot of lambs come fit at the same time. If you had them on adlib and they had a bit of time would you be better off reducing to a twice a day so they would stretch to late Feb/ early March
Yea, the journal quotes are just for the groups, I've said on here many times that the real price is 20c more
7 or 7.10 was to be got this week. Your right in what you say about the journal quotes.
54.5kg wethers at €156 mart.
7 euro was going rate early this week without any pressure .Dropped back to 6.80/6.90 midweek .Imagine 7 euro will be got perhaps in the coming week or two .
7.50 was going before Christmas .Sold some at that but most lambs went from here at 7.30/7.40 around that time .
Handful of ewe lambs left here with majority of them getting there.Few runts of under 30kgs as we but they are on meal a good while now so all going regardless soon .
Holding fit full weight lambs for anything more than a few days is a waste of time as a 10 or 20 cent rise will soon be gone in meal eaten .Not a good plan to restrict ad lib fed lambs .
Couple of places coming down gard on 26kg plus lambs at the moment with max price limits .Heard of 150 euro and 140 euro cut off in a couple of different plants for very overweight lambs .
140 at 23 kg equates to 6.10 and 150 is around 6.50 so even going at 6.80 is better than allowing them to go too heavy.
Now that restrictions are about to be lifted here and the UK I think lambs have one last good rally in them prior to the arrival of the new spring lamb. I honestly don't believe the numbers are out there. if I was a betting man (which I am not) id buy as much forward lambs I could get my hands on.
Navan were cutting 30c on over weights. Picked off 10 ewe lambs that I don't think would make the grade as hoggets for keeping and didn't want running them on till August time till sell. Five of them killed out over 25 with the heaviest being 31 dead weight. No meal on them but still a nice few pound to miss out on. Mart would have been the right way to go in hindsight.
That's the sickening thing about the factory. Its not as if the overweight lambs had the over limit bits of the carcass skipped.
Well it’s amazing they all thought of this at the one time isn’t it. Usual cartel nonsense but no one to do anything about it.
cabt see how the lambs are there. Prices should pick up in a couple of weeks. Hospitality is open now again and allot of vent up demand for meals out in restaurants.
Very seldom see lamb on a hotel menu, a lot more demand on the home market since the start of Covid and people eating at home , hope they keep it up now
Judging by the amount of stores in the marts since last autumn I can't see any scarcity for some time.
More northern reg artics been spotted at the plants as well.
If people start dining out more won't help either.
Keeps lambs moved as they become fit. First loss is often the best. Especially with current meal prices.
They don't want heavy lambs, it's as simple as that, go to the butchers with the heavy ones
6.70 including QA in ICM for Monday, i said no.
i brought 16 tonight , here plus 50kg , and i need to tighten them up to get slurry out, plus ad lib intensive pellets are too dear to give factories free meat i paid dear to put on. id say they will come up now in next 2 weeks . lairage packed tonight, feeling plenty of british lambs and sheep there. 45 left to kill
Any quotes for next week ?
7 euro inc QA to 23kgs today .
Any quotes for next week
