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Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: bloomer on August 29, 2012, 10:26:09 am
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hi
am thinking of visiting the market on friday just for a nosey (ok i want to see all the animals and meet new people)
what time does it start?
where are good places to find people?
is there somewhere i can get a cup of tea and maybe some lunch?
what time does it normally finish?
would it be totally out of place to bring my 3 year old with me?
thanks
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Me
Opens at 9.00am - bidding starts at 10.00am
Most of us & around the pig pens at some point - but it's not huge (maybe we should all wear a pink carnation or something :idea: )
Cafeteria & cafe on site (all undercover)
This ones a "biggy" so may go on longer than usual - maybe 3.00pm at a guess? Check their website - got good directions on too http://www.lawrie-and-symington.com/ (http://www.lawrie-and-symington.com/)
Loadsa folk bring wee ones (especially the last 2 - in school hols) Karen often takes her 2 pre-schoolers - just make sure they don't get you bidding card :roflanim:
Be great to see you there :thumbsup:
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i wont be buying its more of a learning experience...
thanks for the info
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I am going with instructions to keep my hands in my pockets. Shall see you there.
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Hi Andrew :wave:
I'll be tying my OH's hands behind her back this time!
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A wise move . Though we could see if there are any peacocks for Bloomer !!
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Well, it's either that or a hearing aid ;D
Have I missed something ??? - Peacocks/Bloomer ?
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Actually guys, if there are any peafowl or geese, could you let me know how much they sell for please? I'd just be interested to know!
Bloomer - How much are you hoping to get for your 3-year old? ;D
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Kids are priceless ;) but they cost us a fortune ;D
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Well, it's either that or a hearing aid ;D
Have I missed something ??? - Peacocks/Bloomer ?
remember i dont have land yet, was at wombles on saturday and he has peacocks and there were some baby ones running around who are so cute and i was joking i wanted to take them home for my back garden!!!
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Peacocks poop even more than Muscovies :o
I might get there if I feel up to braving the crush. I don't have my TAS badge yet (not got around to ordering it :-[ ) but I might come up with an alternative. I will visit the piggies but mostly around the sheep. Won't be taking the trailer........... :sheep: :sheep: :sheep:
The restaurant is good :thumbsup:
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two thirds of the catalogue is sheep :farmer:
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thats ok sheep are interesting as well as piggies and chooks!!!
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I'll be there (with the little ones in tow ::)) I'm sure we'll all manage to find each other ;) Just look for the harrassed looking woman with a blue buggy and two very curly haired kids :D
See you Friday :wave:
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hippy if i cant find you in the crowd i'm doomed!!!
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Actually guys, if there are any peafowl or geese, could you let me know how much they sell for please? I'd just be interested to know!
There aren't any peafowl in the catalogue. Are you thinking about selling some? :eyelashes: :eyelashes:
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I think Rosemary's planning to take some TAS badges along, so some of us should be wearing our new badges (once we've found Rosemary!)
I am there with trailer. Picking up some LB boys :pig: :pig: from Karen :excited: and muscovies :&> :&> from goosepimple :excited: - but with spare space and a shopping list... :sheep: :sheep: :excited:
Fleecewife :wave: :knit: this time please let's not miss each other! :hug: You still got my mobile number?
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I will be going, i want to put some faces to names and buy my TAS badge (Rosemary can you bring another).
Does anyone want a lift from Ayrshire?
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Wow - it's gonna be a lot of us there this time for sure
Rosemary - could you possibly bring 2 badges with you for us - please :eyelashes:
Juliet - it'll be great to (finally) seeing you again :thumbsup:
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I don't have my TAS badge yet (not got around to ordering it :-[ )
I will be there with badges ;D
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I don't have my TAS badge yet (not got around to ordering it :-[ )
I will be there with badges ;D
Oh goody - one of each colour please :thumbsup:
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Fleecewife :wave: :knit: this time please let's not miss each other! :hug: You still got my mobile number?
I don't Sally - I got a new phone and forgot I had to store numbers to the simcard before transferring them so I lost most of them. I'm sure my brain has turned to scrambled eggs this past year ::) . Please please can you text or email it pretty please :eyelashes: . Of course it's even louder in the mart than it was at Woolfest so I probably won't hear the phone anyway, but I'll go to the piggies every now and then - and the canteen :yum: OHs favourite place.
It sounds like there will a few lovely TASers there :excited: :thumbsup: I'm looking forward to seeing you all - I'd better make it
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Would definately be great to see you mrs if you're feeling like it :thumbsup:
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I'm going!!!
Hoping to buy some Jacobs, maybe done poultry, possibly a llama( maybe not) and anything else that looks cute!!
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apparently i'm not allowed a llama either!!!
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I'm going with OH and 18 ducks. I wouldn't bring a 3 year old if you want to concentrate - it will be too noisy for the wee one to sleep and the animals get stressed and are noisy - my 8 year old boy isn't scared of our animals but is terrified of the noise the hens make at the auctions. Better to stay at grannies and eat cake. :eyelashes:
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unfortunately granny is 370 miles away
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I'm going!!!
Hoping to buy some Jacobs, maybe done poultry, possibly a llama( maybe not) and anything else that looks cute!!
I have 2 very cute little children Lee ;) :roflanim:
See you all on Friday :wave:
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I'm going!!!
Hoping to buy some Jacobs, maybe done poultry, possibly a llama( maybe not) and anything else that looks cute!!
I have 2 very cute little children Lee ;) :roflanim:
See you all on Friday :wave:
Oh Karen - how could you :roflanim:
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I'm going!!!
Hoping to buy some Jacobs, maybe done poultry, possibly a llama( maybe not) and anything else that looks cute!!
I have 2 very cute little children Lee ;) :roflanim:
See you all on Friday :wave:
Oh Karen - how could you :roflanim:
quite easily if someone offers a good price i'm sure!!! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Wish I was going. Sounds like fun.
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I will be there (car repair permitting, it goes in tomorrow.. :-\ ) and have 4 shetland ewes in the sale. Unfortunately I am the seond one in the ring and my girls are quite skinny at the moment.... this is my first venture into selling at breeding auction, and I have got the feeling that in future I will opt for a later one... just can't see how anyone's sheep (after rearing twins this summer) is in good nick at this time of year... but we shall see, I may just take them home again...
(but at least I managed to bring them inside yesterday so they should be dry....)
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I will be there (car repair permitting, it goes in tomorrow.. :-\ ) and have 4 shetland ewes in the sale. Unfortunately I am the seond one in the ring and my girls are quite skinny at the moment.... this is my first venture into selling at breeding auction, and I have got the feeling that in future I will opt for a later one... just can't see how anyone's sheep (after rearing twins this summer) is in good nick at this time of year... but we shall see, I may just take them home again...
(but at least I managed to bring them inside yesterday so they should be dry....)
We'll all be there supporting you from the ring-side :thumbsup:
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Will be there looking for cross sheep.(not angry ones, but ones of mixed origin) ;D
chev shets sound the business to me. big sale will go on for hours.
dominic
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I got there for a couple of hours and it was great to meet up with those I did meet up with. There were several people I didn't see, but then I spent most of my time in the sales ring (not selling - buying ;D ;D ) Sorry Rosemary - I didn't see you anywhere to pick up my badges.
What did everyone buy? Sally has already posted her pics of her new sheep, which are lovely.
I got a couple of white Shetland gimmers of island descent with beautiful spinning fleeces and fluffy cheeks :love: :love: :sheep: :sheep: So I have until shearing next year to learn more about natural dyeing.
Robert - sorry we didn't speak for long - we had just received some devastating news and we were very upset. I'm not usually so unfriendly :wave:
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fleecewife i never noticed or even considered you as being unfriendly after buying i thought you were just going to check your purchases as buyers do after compleating there buying spree :farmer:
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Missed this sale because of work. what were the prices like for shetlands and kerry hills cheers.
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From £22 for shetland sheep and the kerry hill went to £75. 2 donkeys made £110
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From £22 for shetland sheep and the kerry hill went to £75. 2 donkeys made £110
there were some shetland ram lambs that went for £12 each early on!!!
was that for each donkey or for the 2 together lillian?
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Hi David 110 for each donkey, the best ones i have seen for years, and they were both going to the same home.
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Prices for the Shetlands were in fact very good. Tup lambs sold by the penload will always be cheap as they are bought up by the meat buyers - and there were several there, mainly halal - or by those intending to rear them on for another year for hogget. A pen of ancient ewes which should have been left at home went for £5 each :( . The top price I am aware of was £150 for a white Shetland gimmer, and another for £145 :excited: :excited: :innocent: . The champion tup went for £130 I think, and many females fetched £50-60. Buyers knew just what they wanted, and there seemed to be plenty of buyers.
I didn't see the end of the Shetlands, or any of the other breeds going through.
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The Icelandics went for around £150 - I only got a good price for my brown ducks. Did anyone see what the huge piggy went for - never seen a pig that big in my life!
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The very large OSB boar went for the princely sum of £86 and the 2year old sows withhim also went for a similar amount.
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It was good to see you lot again!
Brought my menage of chickens home last night, transfered bantams ( in cardboard pet transport boxes) to the pick up to take home, The dreaded Jack Russell (Princess Amy) scrapped into one box and killed and started to eat one of my wee hens!! All within the one mile that she travelled!! So, Moral of the story.................Dont trust a Jack Russell, even for a mile!!!
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he was a spectacularly huge piggy and very affectionate too, wanted his nose scratching lots!!!
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It was good to see you lot again!
Brought my menage of chickens home last night, transfered bantams ( in cardboard pet transport boxes) to the pick up to take home, The dreaded Jack Russell (Princess Amy) scrapped into one box and killed and started to eat one of my wee hens!! All within the one mile that she travelled!! So, Moral of the story.................Dont trust a Jack Russell, even for a mile!!!
That's their job I would have thought ::)
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I thought the bids were really low actually - it's the smallest auction I've been to I suppose but some of them I felt really sorry for the sellers, thinking of the work and care given to birds and animals it wasn't reflected in the bids - not enough people there perhaps - good if you were buying I expect.
Nice to meet Fleecewife, SallintNorth and OH, Bewyched, Bloomer and Rosemary - thanks for the TAS badge. Sorry I missed you Robert, I'm sure it would have been memorable :farmer: :D
See you all at Carlisle if you are there.
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Prices for the Shetlands were in fact very good. Tup lambs sold by the penload will always be cheap as they are bought up by the meat buyers - and there were several there, mainly halal - or by those intending to rear them on for another year for hogget. A pen of ancient ewes which should have been left at home went for £5 each :( . The top price I am aware of was £150 for a white Shetland gimmer, and another for £145 :excited: :excited: :innocent: . The champion tup went for £130 I think, and many females fetched £50-60. Buyers knew just what they wanted, and there seemed to be plenty of buyers.
I didn't see the end of the Shetlands, or any of the other breeds going through.
Actually the prices for the Shetlands were down on last year, quite a lot ofyoun ger ewes and gimmer sold for bewteen 70 and 80 last year, not so this year, although I didn't stay for the later ones.
As I was first in the ring and hardly any buyers there at the beginning mine didn't reach the reserve I had set, but managed to sell the privately later on :relief: . So all in all fairly happy. But I still think this sale is too early for ewes, maybe ok for gimmers and tups. And the catalogue is just shambles.... no indication of colour, often the ages are wrong etc etc...
I will definitely try and get to Carlisle, to see if that is any better, although no sheep in the sale there. Maybe get a tup there....
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goosepimple i am sorry that i missed you as well and anke i take it you were the disappointed seller with bids at £42 good that you sold them privately :farmer:
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Just got back from Durham - visiting some of the out-laws (of the better kind :thumbsup: ) so only just jumped on here.
It was great to meet-up with so many TASers yesterday - catching-up with the usual friendly faces :-* & getting to put some more faces to names :thumbsup:
We were also the 1st of a few visitors over to Karen - so I made sure I got one of her scrummy carrot cake muffins :yum: Also managed to have a grunting session with Harriet - her & Tommy's babies are absoloutely gorgeous :eyelashes:
:love: :pig: :love:
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Prices for the Shetlands were in fact very good. Tup lambs sold by the penload will always be cheap as they are bought up by the meat buyers - and there were several there, mainly halal - or by those intending to rear them on for another year for hogget. A pen of ancient ewes which should have been left at home went for £5 each :( . The top price I am aware of was £150 for a white Shetland gimmer, and another for £145 :excited: :excited: :innocent: . The champion tup went for £130 I think, and many females fetched £50-60. Buyers knew just what they wanted, and there seemed to be plenty of buyers.
I didn't see the end of the Shetlands, or any of the other breeds going through.
Actually the prices for the Shetlands were down on last year, quite a lot ofyoun ger ewes and gimmer sold for bewteen 70 and 80 last year, not so this year, although I didn't stay for the later ones.
As I was first in the ring and hardly any buyers there at the beginning mine didn't reach the reserve I had set, but managed to sell the privately later on :relief: . So all in all fairly happy. But I still think this sale is too early for ewes, maybe ok for gimmers and tups. And the catalogue is just shambles.... no indication of colour, often the ages are wrong etc etc...
I will definitely try and get to Carlisle, to see if that is any better, although no sheep in the sale there. Maybe get a tup there....
Prices were artificially high last year because the Late Tom Findlay's Rench flock was being sold, so buyers came up from the South and were prepared to pay a lot more than usual for some very special sheep.
Comparing Shetland prices at Lanark with those at say York in past years, they are well up this year. I would have been very happy to have been selling at those prices :thumbsup: Obviously everyone's experiences were different.
I'm sorry to have missed you Anke.