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Jonah?
2007 saw us go into egg production, 2008 brought bird flu.
2008 saw us go into rearing pigs, 2009 seems to be bringing swine flu.
2009 sees us going into sheep. Surely they have enough ways of dying without coughing their way into 2010? But those of you already with the little wooly sods beware.
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27/4/2009, 19:41
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Jonah?
love it!
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2/5/2009, 21:09
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Big Bird
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Re: Jonah?
I hated pigs and sheep at college, but there's something very therapeutic about watching a herd of pigs rooting around outside in the dirt. We do seem to be getting the hang of working with them quite nicely, and they show a good degree of intelligence.
Can't say the same about the lambs. No great problems regarding losses, we've only lost a couple that were serious chancers anyway. As a species I just find them incredibly frustrating. I think another year we'll buy strong stores and keep them for the shortest period possible.
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21/8/2009, 9:35
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Re: Jonah?
Lamb profitability usually disappoints after a good year like this. Everyone and his granny jumps in and puts the price of stores way up, and then the meat price crashes again. 
But its true what you say about dairying. It doesn't add up in the slightest. We only allow ourselves to be slaves because we enjoy doing it and/or we don't know any other way of life.
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27/8/2009, 18:25
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Big Bird
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Re: Jonah?
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Charryman wrote:
As to doing sheep the lazy way, letting someone else do the work and buying stores to finish, at present you'd be paying £50+ for stores and selling them finished at £60. The only way you'd make much profit from that would be if you invested a lot of prayers in the lamb price suddenly jumping from current levels and then getting in before the big boys.
We've only done them a lazyish way this year. Bought 40 reasonable aged orphan lambs from a couple of sources, one breed's worked well other not so good.
I'd agree with the margin on buying bigger stores except we can take the retail margin as well. Not going to do many as long as the dairy stays. If we hadn't picked up a useful line supplying the local school kitchen with pork and lamb I wouldn't have any more lambs, but keeping in with the school is very good for our meat business.
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30/8/2009, 8:54
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