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Ewe Lamb and Hoggett trade.

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  • #52
    Dinzee Conlee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,150 ✭✭✭Dinzee Conlee


    thelegend1979 wrote: »
    The practice of feeding breeding females is widespread. Local show and sale for speckled and suffolk ewe lambs and hoggets on Saturday saw the first prize speckled ewe lambs goin to plain texel ewe lambs that were clearly creep fed. Only made 110 but the owner was delighted.

    Where was that if you dont mind me asking? And who / what society awarded first prize?

    Creeping lambs, if you want to bred them that year, I can see some sense in it. But there is a tipping point at which its loss making surely...

    Feeding hog ration, to drive them on - I don't see how it could be worth it.

    But, maybe I need to change my system, start buying more ration, spend more...
    Spend money to make money, isn't that it :rolleyes: :):D


  • #53
    thelegend1979
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 108 ✭✭thelegend1979


    Mountbellew mart show and sale


  • #54
    Sheep breeder
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,138 ✭✭✭Sheep breeder


    Lambman wrote: »
    I believe a lot off the bigger prices paid for hoggets heavy well fed hoggets are being paid by purebred men for ET. I know a local man that paid €230 for the cheviot x Suffolk hoggets till carry ET as there a big roomy ewe with milk which is what they want.

    Not to many lads using that cross for ET work, due to chances of getting out a live lamb and lack of milk, the zwarble cross or a hilltex is more suitable and won’t have a monster of single lamb,


  • #55
    Lambman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,041 ✭✭✭Lambman


    Never seen anyone using a hilltex ewe for ET up this way... It's always big Suffolk x ewes they seem till go for.. in my experience it's alot easier till lamb a Suffolk x ewe than a hilltex slot easier in fact twice the room till work inside them.


  • #56
    White Clover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,725 ✭✭✭White Clover


    Would many people here feed ewe lambs to get them to breeding weight? I refuse to do it. Any that can't make the weight by late October off grass get the road.


  • #57
    wrangler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,300 ✭✭✭✭wrangler


    White Clover wrote: »
    Would many people here feed ewe lambs to get them to breeding weight? I refuse to do it. Any that can't make the weight by late October off grass get the road.

    We use Lleyn cross here mature weight 70kg so using teagasc guide of 60% of mature weight 42kg is easily reached
    We have a ewe here that was served at 35kg as a ewe lamb and then had one lamb as a yearling and then two lambs at a two year old and still only 55kg so size means nothing. As I said before barren ewe lambs are nearly always the heaviest ewe lambs........ wouldn't do it again though, she just got through


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