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Livestock => Sheep => Topic started by: Fishyhaddock on June 07, 2014, 07:47:47 pm

Title: Terminology
Post by: Fishyhaddock on June 07, 2014, 07:47:47 pm

Evening all.
I have just been looking at the Sheep sale prices for the market at Inverurie and saw Sheep being sold as "Feeding Ewes" and "Feeding Rams". 

Could anyone out there please put me in the picture as to what they are exactly? ie age etc. Or am I missing the obvious!!

Also I have a number of Wiltshire Horn x Suffolk Lambs which I am hoping to sell as store lambs. They were born in April. When do you roughly think they would be the right age to sell as stores.

Thanks in advance

Fishy

Title: Re: Terminology
Post by: shep53 on June 07, 2014, 08:42:43 pm

Feeding sheep are considered too lean to make big money for killing and someone can buy to fatten on grass in practice most feeding sheep go for killing as there are buyers of all fatness levels of ewes and rams .        Store lamb sales normally start in july , just remember that you get paid on weight