[Jacob-list] downsizing

[Thomas Carnes]

We get 50 per round bale for low grade hay, 65 for good hay.  Some people
are getting 75.

 

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From: jacob-list-bounces at jacobsheep.com
[mailto:jacob-list-bounces at jacobsheep.com] On Behalf Of Meg Steensland
Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 2:12 PM
To: jacob-list at jacobsheep.com; Betty Berlenbach
Subject: Re: [Jacob-list] downsizing

 


$300 a head!  in OH I am lucky to get $150 which is below prodn cost andI
have to give away a guard llama for $100.  Market lambs maybe go for $65
unless someone has  waited too long and is desperate to get a celebratory
lamb.  I did sell a res CH ewe for $300 back in 2006 but the lady got a
divorce and brought her back demanding her $ back (and I did not want to
have the sheep go to the butcher!)

 

My neighbor who has Belgians used to get $3000 for a mare and now cannot
give them away for $300 and his hay is running him $1200/mo - about a SS ck!
Hay has come down a bit but thre are still growers wanting $50+/rnd bale.

--- On Sun, 8/23/09, Betty Berlenbach <lambfarm at sover.net> wrote:


From: Betty Berlenbach <lambfarm at sover.net>
Subject: [Jacob-list] downsizing
To: jacob-list at jacobsheep.com
Date: Sunday, August 23, 2009, 4:04 PM

It sounds like the economic situation is taking its toll on us breeders.  I
have been bemoaning the fact that for the last 10 years or so, grain and hay
prices have skyrocketed out of control, but the price of lambs, both as meat
and as breeding stock, has pretty much stayed the same. (I guess I should be
grateful, in a way, as up here, the prices of shetland sheep, which I also
had as a cash crop, have gone from $5-800 apiece to $200 or max, $300
apiece.  I got rid of the shetlands!  I will have to downsize a little, and
like Cathy, am aging, and thinking that each year I go down a bit in
numbers.  Hopefully, at some point, I will be able to switch to buying six
lambs in the spring, keeping them on pasture until November, and then,
shearing and butchering, after breeding and keeping them all year becomes
too difficult.  I do like having them here.  I will breed this year,
probably 12 ewes, but I might consider just breeding some of them...We shall
see. I don't have to make that decision until Nov. 1.

 Betty, in Vermont,who now has a blog, thanks to help from Walter and Linda.
See Betty's blog at http://sheepwoman.wordpress.com
<http://sheepwoman.wordpress.com/> .


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