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Livestock => Sheep => Topic started by: AlanC on July 12, 2010, 07:13:20 pm

Title: black faced sales
Post by: AlanC on July 12, 2010, 07:13:20 pm

i was looking through some of the sale reports of black faced tups at lanark and almot fell of my chair when i seen some of the prices. now from what little experiance i have had with sheep i know some can comand a fair price but there was one tup that went for 40,000

now this might be a silly question but what makes that tup worth that and another not and how can a farmer justfy that outlay wont make the meat of the lambs that tup produces with any more ???


thanks
Alan

Title: Re: black faced sales
Post by: old dad on July 12, 2010, 11:18:38 pm

Thats nothing last year a texel made about 212,000 and regularlly make over 100,000.
these rams will be used mainly for ai purposes and usually bought by a group of breeders to use on there own flocks and to sell semen for other pedigree breeders.

old dad