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Spring lamb prices

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    #3032
    razor8
    Registered Users Posts: 2,321 ✭✭✭razor8


    orm0nd wrote: »
    springs are powering on like wildfire this year and I reckon will be coming out in droves in a couple of weeks, that and the big number of store hoggetts that went through the sales this spring, I can't see any dramatic scarcity or lift in prices,

    Can’t say I agree. Lambs are very scarce even the factory agents say numbers are tight


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    #3033
    Green farmer
    Registered Users Posts: 4,005 ✭✭✭Green farmer


    razor8 wrote: »
    Can’t say I agree. Lambs are very scarce even the factory agents say numbers are tight

    Last time I was in the factory, I offloaded my lambs and they went straight from the trailer to up the line. Nothing else there.


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    #3034
    Dinzee Conlee
    Registered Users Posts: 2,149 ✭✭✭Dinzee Conlee


    razor8 wrote: »
    Hindsight would solve a lot of problems. Bought stores before Xmas and hoping to get €6.50 or close to it too. Had to let some go last week as they were getting way to heavy at 5.50 but got no meal so not to bad

    Jaysus, they were heavy - did I see 30kg deadweight? And off grass alone?

    What weight did you buy em at before Christmas as a matter of interest?

    Edit - I see you said no meal, so maybe they were on some kinda fodder crop?


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    #3035
    Green farmer
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    razor8 wrote: »
    Hindsight would solve a lot of problems. Bought stores before Xmas and hoping to get €6.50 or close to it too. Had to let some go last week as they were getting way to heavy at 5.50 but got no meal so not to bad

    Break your heart giving them free meat, but what can you do.


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    #3036
    orm0nd
    Registered Users Posts: 4,198 ✭✭✭orm0nd


    razor8 wrote: »
    Can’t say I agree. Lambs are very scarce even the factory agents say numbers are tight

    Hope you're right . we'll be moving springs at least 10 days earlier than last year and bigger draws as well.


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    #3037
    Box09
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    Not scarce in ICM this morning. Full up and the field


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    #3038
    orm0nd
    Registered Users Posts: 4,198 ✭✭✭orm0nd


    Box09 wrote: »
    Not scarce in ICM this morning. Full up and the field

    lorries from the north spotted heading south as well,


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    #3039
    Duke92
    Registered Users Posts: 351 ✭✭Duke92


    Box09 wrote: »
    Not scarce in ICM this morning. Full up and the field

    They must want them I got a phone call today looking for lambs he brings them to icm
    And I’ve none to sell


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    #3040
    Dinzee Conlee
    Registered Users Posts: 2,149 ✭✭✭Dinzee Conlee


    Duke92 wrote: »
    They must want them I got a phone call today looking for lambs he brings them to icm
    And I’ve none to sell

    What price did they quote you?


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    #3041
    manno
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    Small improvement in Athenry today. Hoggets over 50kg making up to €130 but no more.


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    #3042
    Duke92
    Registered Users Posts: 351 ✭✭Duke92


    Dinzee Conlee wrote: »
    What price did they quote you?

    He said 5:80 for a number they could be more got I had no reason to push him
    It’s a lot better from the 5:40 to 23kgs I got 3 weeks ago and my compliment was I didn’t get any weight cuts


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    #3043
    Green farmer
    Registered Users Posts: 4,005 ✭✭✭Green farmer


    Duke92 wrote: »
    He said 5:80 for a number they could be more got I had no reason to push him
    It’s a lot better from the 5:40 to 23kgs I got 3 weeks ago and my compliment was I didn’t get any weight cuts

    Got €5.80 this morning, so dukes right. it’s out there, maybe more .I was happy with that.


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    #3044
    kk.man
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    What are 3 year old ewes making with 1.4 lambs at foot?


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    #3045
    kk.man
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    What are 3 year old ewes making with 1.4 lambs at foot (In the marts) lambs 3 weeks old?


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    #3046
    tabby aspreme
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    Text fromTullow mart looking for lambs for live weighing tomorrow morning, 40-42 kgs, no price mentioned


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    #3047
    paddysdream
    Registered Users Posts: 1,779 ✭✭✭paddysdream


    tabby aspreme wrote: »
    Text fromTullow mart looking for lambs for live weighing tomorrow morning, 40-42 kgs, no price mentioned

    90 with the kilo as far as I know


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    #3048
    Hard Knocks
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    kk.man wrote: »
    What are 3 year old ewes making with 1.4 lambs at foot (In the marts) lambs 3 weeks old?

    I’d say €150+
    If you’re on Facebook check out Dowra Mart’s Ltd
    They post pics from cattle & sheep sales


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    #3049
    razor8
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    lambs are flooding in at the moment, cant get lambs killed this week. anyone else here anything?

    supposed to be looking for spring lamb for ramadam instead of hoggets this year


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    #3050
    orm0nd
    Registered Users Posts: 4,198 ✭✭✭orm0nd


    razor8 wrote: »
    lambs are flooding in at the moment, cant get lambs killed this week. anyone else here anything?

    supposed to be looking for spring lamb for ramadam instead of hoggets this year

    So the factory agents you mentioned a few posts back were talking bull. Nothing new there.


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    #3051
    wrangler
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    razor8 wrote: »
    lambs are flooding in at the moment, cant get lambs killed this week. anyone else here anything?

    supposed to be looking for spring lamb for ramadam instead of hoggets this year

    Probably be told it's too late for easter next week and drop the price.
    It's no secret that easter lamb is actually hogget every year


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    #3052
    Green farmer
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    wrangler wrote: »
    Probably be told it's too late for easter next week and drop the price.
    It's no secret that easter lamb is actually hogget every year

    Found over the last few years the demand for Ramadan is way stronger then Easter.


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    #3053
    razor8
    Registered Users Posts: 2,321 ✭✭✭razor8


    wrangler wrote: »
    Probably be told it's too late for easter next week and drop the price.
    It's no secret that easter lamb is actually hogget every year

    The agent couldn’t believe they were saying that either & said he was stuck would 2 loads til next week but wouldn’t always believe what a agent had to say


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    #3054
    Duke92
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    razor8 wrote: »
    The agent couldn’t believe they were saying that either & said he was stuck would 2 loads til next week but wouldn’t always believe what a agent had to say

    The agents love putting that out there
    And us spreading it to keep the sheep coming
    This week and next are 2 short weeks for them
    To


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    #3055
    Duke92
    Registered Users Posts: 351 ✭✭Duke92


    Is there that many spring lambs out there
    Last I sold the last of my hoggets in the middle of May and they where a great price


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    #3056
    Green farmer
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    Duke92 wrote: »
    The agents love putting that out there
    And us spreading it to keep the sheep coming
    This week and next are 2 short weeks for them
    To

    Send abit of fear out there to flush out lambs. Would make you very cynical about the industry as a whole. No wonder the younger generation aren’t bothering with sheep.


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    #3057
    wrangler
    Registered Users Posts: 11,142 ✭✭✭✭wrangler


    razor8 wrote: »
    The agent couldn’t believe they were saying that either & said he was stuck would 2 loads til next week but wouldn’t always believe what a agent had to say

    feck
    https://www.independent.ie/business/farming/factories-cut-hogget-quotes-by-1015ckg-38017331.html


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    #3058
    farawaygrass
    Registered Users Posts: 1,925 ✭✭✭farawaygrass


    The was a queue out the gate in Athenry mart Monday with spring lambs. With spring being a bit later a lot more lambs are suitable, and as you or I would do, you’d hold them for the week before Easter. Ramadan only 2 weeks ago so might be a help


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    #3059
    Hard Knocks
    Registered Users Posts: 4,025 ✭✭✭Hard Knocks


    Duke92 wrote: »
    Is there that many spring lambs out there
    Last I sold the last of my hoggets in the middle of May and they where a great price

    Ramadan was end of May last year
    Last year I Got more for spring lambs end of May than I did at Easter
    Easter & Ramadan are earlier next year


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    #3060
    farawaygrass
    Registered Users Posts: 1,925 ✭✭✭farawaygrass


    Ramadam gets earlier every year by aprox a week and a half


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    #3061
    Green farmer
    Registered Users Posts: 4,005 ✭✭✭Green farmer


    Any word on live exporters ? In previous years I never got a phone call looking for sheep at Easter, but phone always rings for Ramadan.


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