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How many sheep

  • 07-11-2014 11:09AM
    #1
    newbuild14
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4 ✭


    How many sheep would you need lowland say, to have a wage of 500 a week from sheep farming?


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  • #2
    Username John
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,237 ✭✭✭Username John


    newbuild14 wrote: »
    How many sheep would you need lowland say, to have a wage of 500 a week from sheep farming?

    http://www.teagasc.ie/publications/2014/3244/drystock-eProfit-Booklet.pdf

    See page 17 (for some depressing reading)
    The average gross margin per ewe was €48, which was
    €34 lower than what was achieved on the top 1/3 (€82).

    Note that's gross (not Net) margin

    €500 / week = €26,000 / year NET = €33,000 GROSS

    So based on this, you'd need up to 1000 ewes... :(


  • #3
    rangler1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,497 ✭✭✭rangler1


    newbuild14 wrote: »
    How many sheep would you need lowland say, to have a wage of 500 a week from sheep farming?

    You'd make it on 500 ewes if someone handed you a fenced and equipped farm and 500 ewes, otherwise it'd be very hard


  • #4
    WhiteWalls
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 945 ✭✭✭WhiteWalls


    rangler1 wrote: »
    You'd make it on 500 ewes if someone handed you a fenced and equipped farm and 500 ewes, otherwise it'd be very hard

    not a chance of making it with 500 ewes


  • #5
    Cran
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,278 ✭✭✭Cran


    WhiteWalls wrote: »
    not a chance of making it with 500 ewes

    Why not would the top 1/3 at 83 margin not make it on 500 ewes?


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


    WhiteWalls wrote: »
    not a chance of making it with 500 ewes

    We'd gross €150/ewe here with csts of €90/ewe on a bad year( like 2013) and €60/ewe on a good year, so between €60 -90 ewe Gross margin, so whatever your fixed costs are....that's on a high stocking rate


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  • #7
    Feckthis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 504 ✭✭✭Feckthis


    rangler1 wrote: »
    We'd gross €150/ewe here with csts of €90/ewe on a bad year( like 2013) and €60/ewe on a good year, so between €60 -90 ewe Gross margin, so whatever your fixed costs are....that's on a high stocking rate

    Just curious. What kind of infrastructure have you rangler? What's your stocking rate and how many ewes are you farming?


  • #8
    tomwaterford
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    WhiteWalls wrote: »
    not a chance of making it with 500 ewes

    lowland sheep though??
    though if were lowland with capacity for that many sheep around here....you would be regarded as a bit simple if you didn't want to follow cows around twice a day


  • #9
    solerina
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,438 ✭✭✭solerina


    tomwaterford wrote: »
    lowland sheep though??
    though if were lowland with capacity for that many sheep around here....you would be regarded as a bit simple if you didn't want to follow cows around twice a day


    You certainly would make that amount off mountain sheep anyway....unless you don't feed them at all.....we keep overheads to a minimum and run a fairly tight ship and still couldn't make 500 a week from sheep alone


  • #10
    rangler1
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    Feckthis wrote: »
    Just curious. What kind of infrastructure have you rangler? What's your stocking rate and how many ewes are you farming?
    That's why I said fully fenced and equipped and stocked, its taken me many years to get set up, I have 550 sheep this year on110 acre


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