Spring lamb prices

memorystick · 10-03-2019 1:31am

Green farmer wrote: »

I sold fat lambs into the factory last week. All graded U. Pity it was all out of a bag though. Pretty much mades me a busy fool.

How much meal did they eat? 2 bags?

Dinzee Conlee · 10-03-2019 8:47am

memorystick wrote: »

A taste just a few times a week as I work and might not see them daily but fairly regular for the last 3 weeks. Very happy with them. Will €2700 last November turn into €4000 before costs in March?

Oh - did you have them on beet tops as well Memory?
Did they have access to grass as well as the beet tops?

wrangler · 10-03-2019 8:59am

Duke92 wrote: »

Buy stores in oct nov around 3.50

memorystick wrote: »

A taste just a few times a week as I work and might not see them daily but fairly regular for the last 3 weeks. Very happy with them. Will €2700 last November turn into €4000 before costs in March?

Is it 35 lambs or 350 lambs you have, or what do the figures mean

Green farmer · 10-03-2019 8:59am

memorystick wrote: »

How much meal did they eat? 2 bags?

I’ll have to sit down and go the figures once their all gone, but more then I’d have liked. Had to grow them up to 15kg live weight, so didn’t come cheap. Have another batch that had some grass but won’t be ready for another month or so, should do better on those. But anything fed from bag, the figures will be are very tight.

Dinzee Conlee · 10-03-2019 9:45am

Green farmer wrote: »

I’ll have to sit down and go the figures once their all gone, but more then I’d have liked. Had to grow them up to 15kg live weight, so didn’t come cheap. Have another batch that had some grass but won’t be ready for another month or so, should do better on those. But anything fed from bag, the figures will be are very tight.

Well, if they had a lot of ration, plus they graded U, so I assume their kill out % was high, so you don’t have to take them to very high weights...

I know it’s not much consolation... out of interest, what % did they kill out?

memorystick · 10-03-2019 11:29am

Dinzee Conlee wrote: »

Oh - did you have them on beet tops as well Memory?
Did they have access to grass as well as the beet tops?

They had access to tops but there were cattle on them. They barely grazed them as the ground was wet.

memorystick · 10-03-2019 11:30am

wrangler wrote: »

Is it 35 lambs or 350 lambs you have, or what do the figures mean

I bought €2700 worth of lambs.

Dinzee Conlee · 10-03-2019 11:35am

memorystick wrote: »

They had access to tops but there were cattle on them. They barely grazed them as the ground was wet.

Ok...

So how much ration over what length of time did they get?
And what weight did they put on?

Just out of interest, to see how they came on...

memorystick · 10-03-2019 11:36am

wrangler wrote: »

Is it 35 lambs or 350 lambs you have, or what do the figures mean

I bought €2700 worth of lambs.

wrangler · 10-03-2019 11:57am

memorystick wrote: »

I bought €2700 worth of lambs.

Was confused by post 2944, you'd need about 300 acres for 350 lambs to thrive without meal over the winter

memorystick · 10-03-2019 12:03pm

wrangler wrote: »

Was confused by post 2944, you'd need about 300 acres for 350 lambs to thrive without meal over the winter

I should be able to run at least 2 lambs per acre for the winter with a pinch of meal.

Green farmer · 10-03-2019 12:10pm

Dinzee Conlee wrote: »

Well, if they had a lot of ration, plus they graded U, so I assume their kill out % was high, so you don’t have to take them to very high weights...

I know it’s not much consolation... out of interest, what % did they kill out?

I think around 46%

Dinzee Conlee · 10-03-2019 12:30pm

Green farmer wrote: »

I think around 46%

I would have thought they’d kill a bit better, if they were on ad-lib ration... it still means you have to take em to 50kgs to kill out at 23kg...

The difference (or bother I suppose really) between getting a lamb to 46 and 50 is massive I think...

Green farmer · 10-03-2019 12:53pm

Dinzee Conlee wrote: »

I would have thought they’d kill a bit better, if they were on ad-lib ration... it still means you have to take em to 50kgs to kill out at 23kg...

The difference (or bother I suppose really) between getting a lamb to 46 and 50 is massive I think...

Ya, they were entire rams, so you have to knock off abit for the balls. The heaviest was 50kg and he k.o’d at 22.9kg. They also loose a few kg in the trailer as well, but ya, you’d have to be near 50kg in the field to get to the 23kg.

memorystick · 10-03-2019 2:17pm

Dinzee Conlee wrote: »

Ok...

So how much ration over what length of time did they get?
And what weight did they put on?

Just out of interest, to see how they came on...

The lambs I sold weighed 33 and 35 kegs at the end of November when I bought them. I'd give them 8kgs of meal every second or third day if I'd see them just to keep them quiet. For the last 3 weeks they got 1 bag of good ration per day between 36. I think it's a good way of doing it. In the short days I mightn't see them every day as I work. Would have had to get them in a good few times because of feet. I didn't mind as it was nothing serious. It's a nice simple way to farm if you had fencing and a handling yard. Better than feeding heifers at a huge loss. You'd feed a lot of lambs with €1000 of meal as compared to cattle. And less invested.

Duke92 · 12-03-2019 9:00am

memorystick wrote: »

I bought €2700 worth of lambs.

I’ve 350 lambs
And last year didn’t really matter how many lambs you had to the acre they still needed a lot of meal

memorystick · 12-03-2019 11:19am

Duke92 wrote: »

I’ve 350 lambs
And last year didn’t really matter how many lambs you had to the acre they still needed a lot of meal

There’s no 2 years the same. We could be drowned this summer.

MD1983 · 12-03-2019 11:35am

any prices for this week lads? uncle got 5.40 to 23.5kg last week

razor8 · 12-03-2019 9:22pm

MD1983 wrote: »

any prices for this week lads? uncle got 5.40 to 23.5kg last week

Don’t believe there is any improvement on that this week

Green farmer · 12-03-2019 10:31pm

Think their starting the Easter kill next week, so hopefully things will start improving from there on out.

Dinzee Conlee · 13-03-2019 7:57am

Green farmer wrote: »

Think their starting the Easter kill next week, so hopefully things will start improving from there on out.

Easter isn’t til 21st April this year.

Next week would be 5 weeks out, would they start killing for it that early?

Duke92 · 13-03-2019 9:01am

Dinzee Conlee wrote: »

Easter isn’t til 21st April this year.

Next week would be 5 weeks out, would they start killing for it that early?

They can hang them for a month some look for 21 to 28 days hanging

Green farmer · 13-03-2019 9:04am

Dinzee Conlee wrote: »

Easter isn’t til 21st April this year.

Next week would be 5 weeks out, would they start killing for it that early?

Afaik, yes, one of Larry’s men gave an interview in the farming independent and said mid March

Green farmer · 19-03-2019 10:20am

Any change in quotes this week ?

MD1983 · 19-03-2019 3:39pm

neighbor who is a large store lamb man says offered €5.90 to 24kg

Duke92 · 19-03-2019 3:47pm

MD1983 wrote: »

neighbor who is a large store lamb man says offered €5.90 to 24kg

Are you sure it wasn’t €4:90

Green farmer · 19-03-2019 4:16pm

Duke92 wrote: »

Are you sure it wasn’t €4:90

I wouldn’t dismiss the €5.90 for the select few. Ifa said prices are starting to move off €5.40 with talk of €5.60. wonder how the marts are today ? If it’s starting to feed through ?

memorystick · 19-03-2019 4:27pm

Sold the last of mine today. 44kgs Suffolk made 109. 47 kgs Chevy type 120. 40kgs mountainy type made 109. The last were the worst but they left the most- cost €63 at 28kgs. I cleared over €1100 on 37 and lost 1. Not massive money but good for first time.

MD1983 · 20-03-2019 10:40am

Green farmer wrote: »

I wouldn’t dismiss the €5.90 for the select few. Ifa said prices are starting to move off €5.40 with talk of €5.60. wonder how the marts are today ? If it’s starting to feed through ?

same guy more often than not gets a good deal, he had a contract up to a few years ago to supply hoggets at any time up till the end of may at 6.50 to 24kg, people were wandering why he would be buying hoggets in March!

Duke92 · 24-03-2019 8:56pm

All hoggets gone worked it out gave away 1050kgs of free meat to the factories

FarmerDougal · 24-03-2019 8:57pm

Duke92 wrote: »

All hoggets gone worked it out gave away 1050kgs of free meat to the factories

What weight they paying to?

Duke92 · 24-03-2019 10:59pm

Send of the last of them up to 23

early_riser · 24-03-2019 11:42pm

Duke92 wrote: »

All hoggets gone worked it out gave away 1050kgs of free meat to the factories

You say in earlier post you buy 350 hoggets, thats 3kg a head over weight or am i missing something?

Duke92 · 25-03-2019 3:56am

early_riser wrote: »

You say in earlier post you buy 350 hoggets, thats 3kg a head over weight or am i missing something?

No your not missing anything 365 in total I held a lot hoping for a price rise but had to let them to have grass for cattle

Cran · 25-03-2019 1:50pm

Duke92 wrote: »

No your not missing anything 365 in total I held a lot hoping for a price rise but had to let them to have grass for cattle

Where they being fed while holding them? 3kg over weight on average is a lot of over weight lambs out of 365

Duke92 · 25-03-2019 2:23pm

Cran wrote: »

Where they being fed while holding them? 3kg over weight on average is a lot of over weight lambs out of 365

Only fed 50 of the smaller ones had a rye grass crop taken of a tillage farmer that was cut in October for silage did very well on it never stopped growing

Duke92 · 25-03-2019 2:26pm

They where a lot I only had 2 that didnt make the weight
34kgs was my heaviest lamb
This time last year I only had 110 gone

MD1983 · 26-03-2019 12:08pm

5.45 to 23kg quoted, Agent says they are eager for lambs, no sign of it in the price yet

Green farmer · 27-03-2019 11:27am

MD1983 wrote: »

5.45 to 23kg quoted, Agent says they are eager for lambs, no sign of it in the price yet

Fair frustrating. Will have to move up.

Duke92 · 27-03-2019 2:01pm

Green farmer wrote: »

Fair frustrating. Will have to move up.

I got fed up waiting had to let them of last week 5:40 to 23 kgs

Green farmer · 27-03-2019 2:20pm

Duke92 wrote: »

I got fed up waiting had to let them of last week 5:40 to 23 kgs

I’m offloading them every week or two as well, just hope the last of them make up for the rest

Duke92 · 31-03-2019 7:41pm

Was there any stir in hoggets after or are they still at €5:40 to 23kgs

sheepfarmer92 · 01-04-2019 11:16am

5.50 in navan tomorrow to 23 kgs

MD1983 · 01-04-2019 3:28pm

5.60 in kildare to 23.5kg, 5.80 in camolin to 23.5

sheepfarmer92 · 01-04-2019 3:35pm

MD1983 wrote: »

5.60 in kildare to 23.5kg, 5.80 in camolin to 23.5

Fairplay if your getting that, may send the lorry to camolin

Duke92 · 02-04-2019 12:08am

Well he said his neighbor was getting 5:90 to 24kgs 2 weeks ago
Then I could only get €5:40 to 23kgs
It must be spring lambs he’s talking about

charolais0153 · 02-04-2019 1:34am

Duke92 wrote: »

Well he said his neighbor was getting 5:90 to 24kgs 2 weeks ago
Then I could only get €5:40 to 23kgs
It must be spring lambs he’s talking about

Spring lamb would be nearer 7e/kg and less than 21kg dw

sheepfarmer92 · 02-04-2019 7:40am

charolais0153 wrote: »

Spring lamb would be nearer 7e/kg and less than 21kg dw

No spring lamb should be at least 7 euro per kilo but they're only quoting 6 which is no good glad we got out of them years ago

farawaygrass · 02-04-2019 7:45am

sheepfarmer92 wrote: »

charolais0153 wrote: »

Spring lamb would be nearer 7e/kg and less than 21kg dw

No spring lamb should be at least 7 euro per kilo but they're only quoting 6 which is no good glad we got out of them years ago

Are they quoting 6 for spring lamb? Can’t see any quotes printed yet

farawaygrass · 02-04-2019 7:45am

sheepfarmer92 wrote: »

charolais0153 wrote: »

Spring lamb would be nearer 7e/kg and less than 21kg dw

No spring lamb should be at least 7 euro per kilo but they're only quoting 6 which is no good glad we got out of them years ago

Are they quoting 6 for spring lamb? Can’t see any quotes printed yet

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