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Community => Events => Topic started by: Greenmoor on August 22, 2012, 01:30:22 pm
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Just wondering if anybody else is planning on going?
We're going along to support the British Lops and maybe buy ourselves a new loppy lady :)
http://www.meltonmowbraymarket.co.uk/component/k2/item/45-10th-national-show-sale-of-traditional-native-breeds (http://www.meltonmowbraymarket.co.uk/component/k2/item/45-10th-national-show-sale-of-traditional-native-breeds)
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we have 2 lop qualifiers and one gilt for the sale ..................but we have a guy interested in buying prior to the sale but either way we will be there.
2 of our qualifiers also qualified for poy
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Congrats on your qualifiers - we're new to pigs, we only started out in March this year and I'm not sure we'll ever be brave enough to attempt showing!
Will more than likely see you there then :)
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I'll be there! I've had to persuade my Dad to go on holiday a day later so we can go. :eyelashes:
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I'll be there! I've had to persuade my Dad to go on holiday a day later so we can go. :eyelashes:
Hi Sophie :wave: Are you just looking or hoping to buy? I'm guessing you're going for the :sheep:?
Gemma
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Just the Baaa's, yes! Although we'll have a peek at the pigs as we used to keep Tamworths and Gloucester Old Spots. Do you know what time approx it'll be? It'll be our first...
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It's all on the schedule, here: http://www.meltonmowbraymarket.co.uk/component/k2/item/download/93 (http://www.meltonmowbraymarket.co.uk/component/k2/item/download/93)
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Thank you! I look but I don't see and would never have noticed that.
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:) You're welcome!
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What time should we aim to get there? It says 7-10 livestock arrive but it doesn't say anything about humans wanting a nosey!
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any time :thumbsup:
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Early bird catches the worm! We'll be there from the start then!
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the shows will take place friday the sales saturday lop of the year is saturday prior to the sale.
come and say hello you will find us with our lops (goosetree herd)
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We're not leaving until later today, do not sure if we'll be in time to look in today or not, but I'll certainly come and say hello at some point :).
Gemma
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We were too engrossed in sheep to visit anything else! Bad of us I know but we had time restrictions and sheep come first! A lovely day, all the breeds were wonderful, such an array.
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How was the sale? Hope prices were good for those selling :)
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some good prices
pitrain
boar £600 g, £400 g, £300 g
gilts £330 g downwards
welsh boar
£400g
lop boars
£720 downwards
some other breeds not so good but as a whole some money was spent
we withdrew ours prior to the sale as we had already sold them so we only took them for the LOYfinals
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Sound to be better prices than the BPA sale last week then :thumbsup:
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that seemed to be the way most folk were thinking too ;)
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Lovely to meet you and chat today chickenfeed! We came away with an Actress gilt, and even though prices were good on the whole, we bagged ourselves a bargain with her at 130g!
That's us done now, no more pigs here for the foreseeable future! Next stop, Chelford for the :sheep: :)
Gemma x
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Lovely to meet you and chat today chickenfeed! We came away with an Actress gilt, and even though prices were good on the whole, we bagged ourselves a bargain with her at 130g!
That's us done now, no more pigs here for the foreseeable future! Next stop, Chelford for the :sheep: :)
Gemma x
nice to meet you and your family too gemma.
pleased to hear you brought another lop i did not manage to see who brought what as i ended up sterwarding the pigs forward so missed all the ring action i just got so see the prices on paper after.
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www.grassroots.co.uk/melton.html (http://www.grassroots.co.uk/melton.html) most of the show results and top + average prices.
I find it interesting that often the breed Champion doesn't fetch the highest price :thinking:
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No pig results ??? on there?
mandy :pig:
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i have most of the pig results (not 100% of them as i was stewarding at the same time) if you want any of a particular breed let me know
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GOS please if any of them managed to get sold ::) sales were pretty dire at Ross.
Thanks
Mandy :pig:
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i wont put the prefixes on here i do have all the GOS that sold............dont get too excited only a handful there.
dolly sow 12/08/2010 in pig £200
princess joan jan gilt £220
4 princess may gilts £42 each
gerald march born boar £220
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Thanks for that, prices are pretty low again £200 for a 2yr old in pig sow! and £42 for may gilts, good god thats the price of an 8wk old weaner!
Only the boar was a decent price so there must have been a few after him!
Mandy :pig:
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there were a fair few buyers around the ring but it depends on what they were wanting the pitrains reached good money berkshires were low lops held their own but in all fairness it was also the LoY finals so that brings in the buyers for them, with the way feed prices are atm its going to have a knock on to the pig prices.
the £42 gos owner told me by the time her entry etc was taken into account they reached £25 in real terms.
the local meat man was ringside so it looked like he was looking for a bargain.
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Yes have noticed people cutting back their herds there a good number GOS pigs for sale on their website but don't sem to be many takers, i myself have a dolly gilt for sale, she's far too good for bacon but its looking like thats going to be her destiny :'( :-\ :(
i heard some kk's went for £2 each at Skipton the other week, all very sad. :gloomy:
thanks again for the info
mandy :pig:
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£42 for a gilt? How disappointing for the seller :(
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Just came across this - no sign of any of the pigs though *tut*
http://m.meltontimes.co.uk/community/community-news/this-year-s-rare-breed-champions-1-4248115 (http://m.meltontimes.co.uk/community/community-news/this-year-s-rare-breed-champions-1-4248115)