Store Lambs

They usually pay up to 23kg. between 185 amd 200 id say but none of us have a crystal ball on lamb prices

the auctioneer buys on farm and through mart

Would buy 35kg ewe lambs out of dowra and sell in mart around mid October to the dry ewe lamb men in Midlands, will do a serious thrive, nice sharp ones.

Ones with a brochie/speckled face and sharp head, will do a fierce thrive when put on good land.

BBut the antlers could be priceless 🤑🤑🤑

Depends on the lad, had a chat with a sharp head/tight skin lad one time and I said cheviot were better than blackface. Nearly got the head tore off me. Then Teagasc did a trial with both and another type lamb, guess which came out ahead. That was with Wicklows, NCC are far better. Unless you're into breeding stock, the heads and skins go in the bin afaik.

nice entry of quality short wolled stores at Ennis next Monday for any one interested

If you don’t mind me asking had you to give much more compared to last year for them?

What have you based your figures on .Thinking of buying some myself.

Serious money for culls yesterday even light unfleshed making good money

Ennis Mart Monday 4th August 2025Sheep Auction Good size sheep sale today with 562 on offer. Quite a number of store lambs today with numbers of heavy fleshed lambs small. A great trade for stores today. Average price of lambs up 20c/kg today but this was driven by the high price per kg for store lambs.

Cull ewes an excellent trade yet again and these averaged 2.56/kg and hit a high of €292.

Lambs 11 @ 40.5kgs - €164 - €4.05/kg 18 @ 45kgs - €169 - €3.76/kg 8 @ 53kgs - €186 - €3.51/kg 9 @ 51kgs - €200 - €3.92/kg 6 @ 44kgs - €167 - €3.80/kg 9 @ 47kgs - €177 - €3.77/kg7 @ 51.5kgs - €210 - €4.08/kgS

Stores 13 @ 32.5kgs - €147 - €4.52/kg 8 @ 35kgs - €135 - €3.86/kg 8 @ 32.5kgs - €152 - €4.68/kg10 @ 38kgs - €150 - €4.19/kg9 @ 31kgs - €149 - €3.92/kg15 @ 30kgs - €146 - €4.87/kg

I would have thought Ennis would be a strange place to buy store lambs? Isn’t Clare in top 3 counties in Ireland with the least sheep? Bound to be scarce and thus expensive

they could be gone back up 20c by end of week if farmers hold off.

Is there any value out there at all?

Just watching the trade in Drumshanbo and sticking the prices into a store lamb calculator i was messing around with before. Not much value unless you have a big pile of grass to graze. Forward stores be leaving very little for a man putting them into a shed. Are many of you going finishing stores this year? A lot of money to tie up in stock for the return