Spring lamb prices

stantheman1979

Sent 93 to Kildare last week. About 850 gone so far. They made €113 our worst price so far this year. In hindsight there was a few slightly under fleshed but wanted to get rid of them while price is decent. I reckon it’ll be close to €5 very soon.

Willfarman

stantheman1979 wrote: »

Sent 93 to Kildare last week. About 850 gone so far. They made €113 our worst price so far this year. In hindsight there was a few slightly under fleshed but wanted to get rid of them while price is decent. I reckon it’ll be close to €5 very soon.

Hard to be really sure if supplies are there.

early_riser

Willfarman wrote: »

Hard to be really sure if supplies are there.

I know not many farmers in postion to buy stores at the min but factory agents around here appear to be buying a lot of lambs in mart 40-43kgs lambs that they wouldn't usually buy as be a bit light for killing unless well fleshed, weather that means supplies of heavy lambs are scarce or not i dont know but i was in factory myself with some thursday morning and there was plenty of lambs there anyway waiting for pens to come available before you could unload

Green farmer

Was in Kildare on Friday. Didn’t seem over busy, abit quiet actually, but they still had nice lambs there for slaughter, I only had culls. Can see supplies being tight enough as the season goes on, but given the weather, you’d need it, as finishing anything is going to be slow and costly this year.

Lambman

What's culls making green farmer? Have a handful off ewes here that never milked on 1side not weeded just no milk on 1side... Old fella reckons it could just be the lamb never sucked her on that side? I don't wanna take the chance on them tho.

Green farmer

Lambman wrote: »

What's culls making green farmer? Have a handful off ewes here that never milked on 1side not weeded just no milk on 1side... Old fella reckons it could just be the lamb never sucked her on that side? I don't wanna take the chance on them tho.

I got €3.00 plus .10c qa , that goes a long way to buying back in fresh new ewe lambs if you want.

Siamsa Sessions

Green farmer wrote: »

I got €3.00 plus .10c qa , that goes a long way to buying back in fresh new ewe lambs if you want.

Anyone care to throw a number on what replacement ewe lambs will make this year?

Given the apparently lower numbers from the spring and lack of grass now, will they be up or down compared to last year?

charolais0153

Siamsa Sessions wrote: »

Anyone care to throw a number on what replacement ewe lambs will make this year?

Given the apparently lower numbers from the spring and lack of grass now, will they be up or down compared to last year?

Depends on the quality. Could be up to 150 for mules 130 for texels etc

sheepfarmer92

Wev 170 culls picked to go now tomorrow, 310 in navan

charolais0153

sheepfarmer92 wrote: »

Wev 170 culls picked to go now tomorrow, 310 in navan

Are people keeping their culls for the welfare scheme?

Siamsa Sessions

charolais0153 wrote: »

Depends on the quality. Could be up to 150 for mules 130 for texels etc

And add another 40-50 for their older hogget sisters I guess.

You wouldn't be long running up the "investment" costs!

sheepfarmer92

charolais0153 wrote: »

Are people keeping their culls for the welfare scheme?

Dont depends on numbers needed i suppose, im still well over the number needed so will be less mouths to feed after tomorrow!

IH784man

There will be no shortage of good ewe lambs throughout the rest of the autumn and winter that can be bought for store prices

Green farmer

You’d wonder where this years store buyers are going to come from. Cattle won’t be dear and fodder won’t bw plentiful, straw scarce and dairymen won’t have a lot of excess cash to play with it

Willfarman

I’ll be there for you,, when the rain starts to fall,, I’ll be there for you, like I been there before..

charolais0153

Willfarman wrote: »

I’ll be there for you,, when the rain starts to fall,, I’ll be there for you, like I been there before..

Took me a minute

charolais0153

Green farmer wrote: »

You’d wonder where this years store buyers are going to come from. Cattle won’t be dear and fodder won’t bw plentiful, straw scarce and dairymen won’t have a lot of excess cash to play with it

I dont see what dairy men and straw have to do with store prices. Of we get rain therell be a hape pf grass together that lads will need to graze.
Arpund here,store lambs are usually bought for aftergrass after hay. Big prices for hay could lead to high enough prices for nice store lambs still...

Green farmer

charolais0153 wrote: »

I dont see what dairy men and straw have to do with store prices. ..

Straw might be a product that a lot of lads finishing lambs in sheds would use either as bedding and or supplement to meal. So expensive straw is just another overhead that’s gotten more expensive and factored in to the equation. 2-3 years ago store lamb prices went through the roof. Reason was cattle were too expensive and a lot of beef lads started buying store lambs instead. Some dairy lads also dabble in finishing animals as well. Was at a mart one day and I couldn’t get a sniff at buying lambs. Some big dairy lads had turned up and had deeper pockets then I had.

IH784man

Green farmer wrote: »

Straw might be a product that a lot of lads finishing lambs in sheds would use either as bedding and or supplement to meal. So expensive straw is just another overhead that’s gotten more expensive and factored in to the equation. 2-3 years ago store lamb prices went through the roof. Reason was cattle were too expensive and a lot of beef lads started buying store lambs instead. Some dairy lads also dabble in finishing animals as well. Was at a mart one day and I couldn’t get a sniff at buying lambs. Some big dairy lads had turned up and had deeper pockets then I had.

Let the have them and make a loss on them if there paying above the going rate,there only there for a few Marts in the summer anyway,same thing every year.

Sami23

Any hope of prices picking up next week I wonder.?
Just have 1st batch of lambs ready to go for this year. Approx 46kgs

stantheman1979

Had a struggle to squeeze €5.10 in Kildare today. Lambs made €106

ganmo

Well they pulled it back to last year

farming93

4.80 plus 10 cent quality assurance in camolin this week ewes are 2 .70 paying to 40kg. It's a disappointing return for all the hardship got this year.

Green farmer

Larry leading the downward charge, again

charolais0153

Green farmer wrote: »

Larry leading the downward charge, again

What doea he own icm is it?

Lambman

What time off the year were the exporters buying up all the lamb? Remember at the start they were taking lambs from 42kg but as it went on only wanted the heavier lambs.

ganmo

charolais0153 wrote: »

What doea he own icm is it?

And kepak

wrangler

Got 102 less €3 exps today, average weight 45,
I'll have to weigh next week again, nearly half were overweight.
concentrates are too expensive to be giving free meat.
Got 103 for ewes, av weight 85kg, DW 39KG.
Only paying up to 40kg

foxirl

Anyone know what days ICM camolin kill lambs. Do you just turn up in the morning with them or do you have to book them in. Thanks

wrangler

foxirl wrote: »

Anyone know what days ICM camolin kill lambs. Do you just turn up in the morning with them or do you have to book them in. Thanks

They seem to kill lambs everyday, I'd imagine you'd have to phone ahead