Spring lamb prices

Lambman

€1 is needed the hardest part off clipping is the belly and around the ass... as pointed out here yous have the fleece off them as quick... a lot off farmers clipping lambs b4 going as I think lorry had dirty lambs back up with them.

kk.man

Was offered 5.40 for lambs and 3.00 for ewes this evening. I didn't commit what are you hearing?

MD1983

got 5.50 on monday

kk.man

MD1983 wrote: »

got 5.50 on monday

Is that from a bigger plant? My quote was from a Butcher.

MD1983

yes - a factory

Robson99

€ 5.50 all in at the moment. Can see them hitting € 6.00 in the next fortnight with Easter on the Horizon

MD1983

kk.man wrote: »

Is that from a bigger plant? My quote was from a Butcher.

when you say a butcher, are you actually selling them to a butcher with a shop or what is the set-up? Where does the butcher slaughter the animal?

Does he pay up to full carcass weight or only up to say 23kg?

thanks

kk.man

MD1983 wrote: »

kk.man wrote: »

Is that from a bigger plant? My quote was from a Butcher.

when you say a butcher, are you actually selling them to a butcher with a shop or what is the set-up? Where does the butcher slaughter the animal?

Does he pay up to full carcass weight or only up to say 23kg?

thanks

Full 23kgs his premises would be reasonable big. Not a factory.
He is handy to drop them to the night before and they would be clean when klled.

early_riser

Have had 2 factorys ring looking for sheep today and a text from mart looking for hoggots tomorrow due to high demand.. unfortunately i have nothing to sell at the min but anyone with some should get good money, wonder how strict will the be with dirty lambs this week it would be hard have them dry and clean if outside the last week

Dickie10

got 5.55 for lambs last tuesday , came into 123.00 on average

Green farmer

Ifa are reporting jump in lamb prices. Saying €5.90 to €6 is out there

Robson99

If hoggets hit the € 6.00 / kg in the next few days where do lads see them being at the end of the month ?
I know the Easter trade will be over at that stage but there surely wont be enough of early lambs on the market to meet demand ?

Green farmer

Took €5.80 on offer today .probably should have squeezed more, but think it’s good money and happy to be rid of last of the screws and empties .

sea12

Green farmer wrote: »

Took €5.80 on offer today .probably should have squeezed more, but think it’s good money and happy to be rid of last of the screws and empties .

Good money. What weight are they. Think I will go through all my ewe lambs snd pick out the ones. Is that won't make nice ewe hoggets in the autumn. Will probably make as much on them. Now

Green farmer

sea12 wrote: »

Good money. What weight are they. Think I will go through all my ewe lambs snd pick out the ones. Is that won't make nice ewe hoggets in the autumn. Will probably make as much on them. Now

They were small Lleyns k.o around 20kg. The ones that weren’t good enough to breed off and a few that didn’t go in lamb.

ganmo

Robson99 wrote: »

If hoggets hit the € 6.00 / kg in the next few days where do lads see them being at the end of the month ?
I know the Easter trade will be over at that stage but there surely wont be enough of early lambs on the market to meet demand ?

I'm guessing the weather has a fair bit to do with this jump

although...


it'll be interesting to see what new lambs open on

Siamsa Sessions

ganmo wrote: »

I'm guessing the weather has a fair bit to do with this jump

although...


it'll be interesting to see what new lambs open on

Nice chart - is it from online someplace or one you generated yourself?

ganmo

bord bia farmers section
they have prices and throughput info there

kk.man

According to today's paper 6 euro plus is being achieved. What's being quoted to yourselves?

paddysdream

kk.man wrote: »

Accounting to today's paper 6 euro plus is being achieved. What's being quoted to yourselves?

6:15 inc.qa in kildare this morning

sea12

Hopefully allot of lads with ewe lambs will weed out the poor ones and take advantage of good price. This might reduce the amount of ewe hoggets in the autumn.

IH784man

sea12 wrote: »

Hopefully allot of lads with ewe lambs will weed out the poor ones and take advantage of good price. This might reduce the amount of ewe hoggets in the autumn.

Makes as much sense to sell now at €6.15 to 23/24 kg than to keep till autumn.Would hoggets average €150 in the autumn?

Robson99

Any update on prices ?

farming93

was selling a few in the mart today didn't stick around as I was in early but I got €100 for 38.5kg ewe lambs that were very underfleshed and 3 ram lambs 28.5 kg 76 euro . I sold a couple of cast ewes as well and got on well that was me just cleaning up the flock a bit with how good the prices are atm. there was hardly any sheep in the mart which I was surprised at I wonder is it a lack of sheep around atm or did the weather play a part?

Green farmer

Makes you wonder if the lack of sheep around is a result of not as many lads buying stores this year after what the factories did to us last year.

wrangler

Green farmer wrote: »

Makes you wonder if the lack of sheep around is a result of not as many lads buying stores this year after what the factories did to us last year.

High prices cure high prices and conversely
Low prices cure low prices.
Just shows that you have to do the same system every year because if you hop from one to another you're liable to get caught in the bad years every time.
Hopefully the ''clean sheep policy'' won't stop the store buyers from under pinning the prices next Sept/ Oct for us

Western Pomise

What kind of money are dry ewes making?.....strong Suffolk x well fed sheep....have 5 to offload.
Dosed them with Flukiver at scanning time (were done before I thought of it)....

Is there a withdrawal period with Flukiver before you can kill sheep?

Ard_MC

Western Pomise wrote: »

What kind of money are dry ewes making?.....strong Suffolk x well fed sheep....have 5 to offload.
Dosed them with Flukiver at scanning time (were done before I thought of it)....

Is there a withdrawal period with Flukiver before you can kill sheep?

Defo a wihdrawl period but i dont know what it is. Google it and you will find it.

Ard_MC

Went through my hoggets today and anythin not lookin promising have housed them and going to finish them. Hopefully the prices stay up.

They have been on 300 grams of stock blend meal and a pinch of whole oats for the winter. Going put them on intensive nuts..how much should the be built up to for ad lib..and gone by end of April.

Green farmer

Western Pomise wrote: »

What kind of money are dry ewes making?.....strong Suffolk x well fed sheep....have 5 to offload.
Dosed them with Flukiver at scanning time (were done before I thought of it)....

Is there a withdrawal period with Flukiver before you can kill sheep?

€3.20 a kilo deadweight up to 40kg. Be careful with the withdrawals.