Author Topic: Commerical lambs (Read 7709 times)

SallyintNorth · « **Reply #15 on:** March 23, 2015, 04:30:54 pm »

We've sold through Dunbia in the past but mostly go to Woodhead (for Morrisons) or Vion for Asda and Tesco these days. (Used to be Welsh Country Foods.) They tell us the estimated bid price up front, so if we don't like it we don't send lambs. And we get good info back, including any vet lab details (whether or not it affected the price they paid.)

Usually deadweight is very good earlier in the season, sometimes we do better through the marts later on. But it's always a gamble going to the mart.

What sort of volume are you doing? We take batches of 20-25 to the local collection centre; they collect up a lorryload for whichever operation is moving lambs that day.

Tim W · « **Reply #16 on:** March 23, 2015, 06:08:27 pm »

Try to make a lorry load each time----that's about 150 . There are 3 or 4 of us within 15 miles so with 2 or 3 pick ups we can make a load

Last week I sent 100 & next week I will send another 150----try to get rid of the things before too many more hit the ground!

Marches Farmer · « **Reply #17 on:** March 23, 2015, 07:46:43 pm »

The Beltex is, after all, only a Belgian offshoot of the Texel hence, I suppose, the passion for double muscling. There was a fashion for them in these parts a few years back but folks just got fed up with the lambing problems and many have returned to less extreme Suffolks.