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Store Lambs

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  • #32
    Dickie10
    Registered Users Posts: 3,862 ✭✭✭Dickie10


    my 114 store lamsb arrived tonight, gave them a count in the yard, all 114 there and in great nick, very happy with them straight out of kenmare mart, brilliant service 3 euro dlivered


  • #33
    razor8
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    Dickie10 wrote: »
    my 114 store lamsb arrived tonight, gave them a count in the yard, all 114 there and in great nick, very happy with them straight out of kenmare mart, brilliant service 3 euro dlivered

    Any photos?


  • #34
    Dinzee Conlee
    Registered Users Posts: 2,137 ✭✭✭Dinzee Conlee


    Dickie10 wrote: »
    my 114 store lamsb arrived tonight, gave them a count in the yard, all 114 there and in great nick, very happy with them straight out of kenmare mart, brilliant service 3 euro dlivered

    What’s your routine for them now Dickie - I mean in terms of worms, minerals, fluke?, etc...

    If you don’t mind me asking... ;)


  • #35
    Hard Knocks
    Registered Users Posts: 3,918 ✭✭✭Hard Knocks


    Dickie10 wrote: »
    my 114 store lamsb around tonight, gave them a count in the yard, all 114 there and in great nick, very happy with them straight out of kenmare mart, brilliant service 3 euro dlivered
    Good luck with them
    Does the fence have to be top notch?


  • #36
    Dickie10
    Registered Users Posts: 3,862 ✭✭✭Dickie10


    ah yeah decent fencing ya know the usual sheep mesh and strand of barb with strand of electric is what i usually get done , grant spec stuff. if you dont have adequate fencing forget about any type of sheep you will just annoy yourself and cause stress, nobody needs that. i was just going to ask anyone here what there routine is!? anyway first thing i did was not annoy or stress the poor devils for a day or two they were on the lorry at 1.30 tuesday afternoon and didnt get out til 10.45 pm tuesday night. roughly the plan will be worm dose , probably vaccinate 8 in 1, dip , and seperate rams and ewes/weathers. but yesterday and today they spent eating and sleeping in the sun . ill stick up pics soon


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  • #37
    Dickie10
    Registered Users Posts: 3,862 ✭✭✭Dickie10


    im sticking up two pics from my phone there not great quality ill get a few good ones tomorrow, have to go to sleep need to be at dawn meats in slane at 6am .......:(


  • #38
    Dickie10
    Registered Users Posts: 3,862 ✭✭✭Dickie10


    Here’s a pic


  • #39
    RobinBanks
    Registered Users Posts: 921 ✭✭✭RobinBanks


    Brought in lambs today to run through foot bath. Noticed one very lame and when I checked it out her hoof is broken to the point where you can see flesh underneath. Poor thing is in pain. I have little experience with sheep but I don’t know if this is a job for a vet or someone else? I sprayed her with alamycin and gave her an anti inflammatory + antibiotic injection I had for another job. Anyone seen anything like this before.


  • #40
    390kid
    Registered Users Posts: 409 ✭✭390kid


    Albert Johnson wrote: »
    Those weight of horned lambs were from €45 to €60 in Drumshanbo Thursday. They were the first of the hill lambs and should be coming out I'm greater numbers weekly from now on.

    Was there many fat lambs in Drumshanbo Albert?


  • #41
    memorystick
    Registered Users Posts: 1,575 ✭✭✭memorystick


    Dickie10 wrote: »
    ah yeah decent fencing ya know the usual sheep mesh and strand of barb with strand of electric is what i usually get done , grant spec stuff. if you dont have adequate fencing forget about any type of sheep you will just annoy yourself and cause stress, nobody needs that. i was just going to ask anyone here what there routine is!? anyway first thing i did was not annoy or stress the poor devils for a day or two they were on the lorry at 1.30 tuesday afternoon and didnt get out til 10.45 pm tuesday night. roughly the plan will be worm dose , probably vaccinate 8 in 1, dip , and seperate rams and ewes/weathers. but yesterday and today they spent eating and sleeping in the sun . ill stick up pics soon

    Are they roaming or just settled into field? Would have ok fences but would give a pinch of meal to keep them quiet. Not buying until October. Super looking stock.


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  • #42
    Country lad
    Registered Users Posts: 199 ✭✭Country lad


    RobinBanks wrote: »
    Brought in lambs today to run through foot bath. Noticed one very lame and when I checked it out her hoof is broken to the point where you can see flesh underneath. Poor thing is in pain. I have little experience with sheep but I don’t know if this is a job for a vet or someone else? I sprayed her with alamycin and gave her an anti inflammatory + antibiotic injection I had for another job. Anyone seen anything like this before.

    She should be grand after treatment as that's the joys of sheep farming no need for vet just spray her foot again if no better in a couple of days


  • #43
    kk.man
    Registered Users Posts: 3,416 ✭✭✭kk.man


    RobinBanks wrote: »
    Brought in lambs today to run through foot bath. Noticed one very lame and when I checked it out her hoof is broken to the point where you can see flesh underneath. Poor thing is in pain. I have little experience with sheep but I don’t know if this is a job for a vet or someone else? I sprayed her with alamycin and gave her an anti inflammatory + antibiotic injection I had for another job. Anyone seen anything like this before.

    +1 With country lad on this.
    Make sure it is in a dry area for 20mins after spray as wet grass will take away any good u did by spraying in the 1st place.


  • #44
    Dickie10
    Registered Users Posts: 3,862 ✭✭✭Dickie10


    no there well settled ill dose next week and seperate rams from ewes


  • #45
    RobinBanks
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    Country lad wrote: »
    She should be grand after treatment as that's the joys of sheep farming no need for vet just spray her foot again if no better in a couple of days


    You were right. I went through them this evening and I can’t pick out the lame one. If only cows would heal as quick. Thanks for the advice


  • #46
    RobinBanks
    Registered Users Posts: 921 ✭✭✭RobinBanks


    kk.man wrote: »
    +1 With country lad on this.
    Make sure it is in a dry area for 20mins after spray as wet grass will take away any good u did by spraying in the 1st place.

    Thank you for advice kk.man. Learning day by day thanks to the Help from all the members here


  • #47
    Dickie10
    Registered Users Posts: 3,862 ✭✭✭Dickie10


    those lambs i bought from kenmare ended up €68 in the yard (inc. €3/hd. transport). was about to dip them today but the rain came going to just spray them until i get a half dry day.


  • #48
    Albert Johnson
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 1,869 Mod ✭✭✭✭Albert Johnson


    390kid wrote: »
    Albert Johnson wrote: »
    Those weight of horned lambs were from €45 to €60 in Drumshanbo Thursday. They were the first of the hill lambs and should be coming out I'm greater numbers weekly from now on.

    Was there many fat lambs in Drumshanbo Albert?

    Sorry didn't get a notification about your reply and only seen it now. Drumshanbo wouldn't really be a town for fat lambs, be mostly stores and ewes/hogget's. The fat lamb's would usually go to Dowra, Ballymote or Elphin where there's more factory buyer's. Having said that 47kg ewe lambs made €97 (gone for breeding) and the comrade rams 49kg made €93 (Galway type lambs with wooly heads).


  • #49
    Green farmer
    Registered Users Posts: 4,005 ✭✭✭Green farmer


    Albert Johnson wrote: »
    Having said that 47kg ewe lambs made €97 (gone for breeding) and the comrade rams 49kg made €93 (Galway type lambs with wooly heads).

    I always feel disappointed when any 49kg lambs fail to make the €100 mark.


  • #50
    Albert Johnson
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    Green farmer wrote: »
    Albert Johnson wrote: »
    Having said that 47kg ewe lambs made €97 (gone for breeding) and the comrade rams 49kg made €93 (Galway type lambs with wooly heads).

    I always feel disappointed when any 49kg lambs fail to make the €100 mark.

    I understand the disappointment but they were pure bred Galway ram lambs and it was near enough the price of them imo. I don't know much about selling dead weight but I do know that anything unusual doesn't usually sell well live. The Galway sheep seem to be a bigger sheep in my limited experience and even though​they were 49kg I don't think they were over fleshed. However I'm skeptical if feeding them for another few weeks and going overweight would be of any great financial advantage either.


  • #51
    390kid
    Registered Users Posts: 409 ✭✭390kid


    Albert Johnson wrote: »
    Sorry didn't get a notification about your reply and only seen it now. Drumshanbo wouldn't really be a town for fat lambs, be mostly stores and ewes/hogget's. The fat lamb's would usually go to Dowra, Ballymote or Elphin where there's more factory buyer's. Having said that 47kg ewe lambs made €97 (gone for breeding) and the comrade rams 49kg made €93 (Galway type lambs with wooly heads).
    Ye there seems to be lots going through dowra I wouldn’t have thought there would be many for them there. Have a few nice ewe lambs that would suit breeding just not to sure where to go with them yet


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  • #52
    Albert Johnson
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 1,869 Mod ✭✭✭✭Albert Johnson


    390kid wrote: »
    Albert Johnson wrote: »
    Sorry didn't get a notification about your reply and only seen it now. Drumshanbo wouldn't really be a town for fat lambs, be mostly stores and ewes/hogget's. The fat lamb's would usually go to Dowra, Ballymote or Elphin where there's more factory buyer's. Having said that 47kg ewe lambs made €97 (gone for breeding) and the comrade rams 49kg made €93 (Galway type lambs with wooly heads).
    Ye there seems to be lots going through dowra I wouldn’t have thought there would be many for them there. Have a few nice ewe lambs that would suit breeding just not to sure where to go with them yet

    It depends on the weight of the ewe lambs. Anything over 40kg doesn't always sell that well in Drumshanbo but it depends on who's there on the day. Ewe lambs will be in demand from now on, there's a few older lads that run dry hogget's and buy replacements each week as they sell this year's crop. Well matched bundles of 5-10 ewe lambs usually attract a premium over slaughter price.


  • #53
    memorystick
    Registered Users Posts: 1,575 ✭✭✭memorystick


    What are light store lambs making?


  • #54
    Lambman
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    Maybe 5 over €2 a kg for less than 35kg


  • #55
    Lambman
    Registered Users Posts: 1,041 ✭✭✭Lambman


    Maybe 5 over €2 a kg for less than 35kg


  • #56
    Green farmer
    Registered Users Posts: 4,005 ✭✭✭Green farmer


    Lambman wrote: »
    Maybe 5 over €2 a kg for less than 35kg

    And add another €5 again for ewe lambs


  • #57
    Ard_MC
    Registered Users Posts: 516 ✭✭✭Ard_MC


    At a sale last night, thought trade was back a bit compared to 2 weeks ago.


  • #58
    Albert Johnson
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    Ard_MC wrote: »
    At a sale last night, thought trade was back a bit compared to 2 weeks ago.

    Store's are back a bit on previous weeks but it's only a few euro a head and there still a good trade imo. The year is moving on and average type lambs are in no short supply atm, if the trade holds it's own for a few weeks then I'd be content being honest. There's a lot of lambs bought that will struggle to get money imo, especially the real longer keep types that were making €40-55 up to last week. From now until next March/April is a long time in the life of a sheep.


  • #59
    Robson99
    Registered Users Posts: 4,183 ✭✭✭Robson99


    Dickie10 wrote: »
    those lambs i bought from kenmare ended up €68 in the yard (inc. €3/hd. transport). was about to dip them today but the rain came going to just spray them until i get a half dry day.

    How are the lambs thriving Dickie ?
    Have those type of stores come back anybit?


  • #60
    Green farmer
    Registered Users Posts: 4,005 ✭✭✭Green farmer


    Was in roscrea yesterday. The run of it was, €2 a kilo plus €5-€7 for ewe lambs.


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  • #61
    Dickie10
    Registered Users Posts: 3,862 ✭✭✭Dickie10


    Robson99 wrote: »
    How are the lambs thriving Dickie ?
    Have those type of stores come back anybit?

    Well lads , yes the lambs are doing great really seem to have thrived and some putting on serious weight by my eye, so much so that i have pulled three nice speckled faces to be put to the ram with my own replacement ewe lambs at end of october. there due there second vaccination (booster) in 3 weeks. i rang the mart manager Dan on monday evening to put in another order for 80-100 more , he said the trade seems to have eased a bit . i told him to go for 33-36 kg average id hope they will only be around €70/head. i have 19 ram lambs of my own on ad lib intensive lamb nut. around 12 are fit now probably go next week , the others should be fit within fortnight. there eating 1.5 kg /day on average some prob eating more others less


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