With the benefits of the fall in the £/€ rate, good grass and reportedly continuing poor arable margins, demand for fat, store and breeding sheep appears to have resulted for us anyway in early strong interest for our shearling ewes. The last went this week, probably 4-6 weeks earlier than last year. We still have
July 1st 2016 Lambing is now well behind us, having finished in mid April. I was reasonably pleased with a live lambing ratio (post 2 days after lambing) of a shade under 180%. Sheep were brought in very early in early January due to the atrocious wet weather. I was concerned that the
I am aware of the rather large gap since the last update on here for which apologies. Looking back over the back end of the year, the last of the fat lambs went to Dunbia at the beginning of December. As you may know, we don’t feed any concentrates, all our fat lambs are off