[Jacob-list] Jacobs

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Their market is very flexible.   And a good bit of the animals value depends on where you live and what your market is!

Breeding stock of most commercial breeds is truly specialized.  I would say, in the South west and a good bit of the Central US... The Club Lamb market is the basis.  Realizing that as a weather sire.. the ewe (and ram) value is in producing lambs either wethers or Ewes that will meat the terminal markets of the Market lamb for the showring.  

I have commonly see ewes that fit this niche sell from $200 to $1000 and up.  I know that is a big swing, but the value on these brood ewes is in their potential to produce terminal lambs.  But Prospect lambs (for the Jr Market Lambs) can bring well over $200 as little bittty un weaned lambs, as the buyer thinks they have the potential to win at a show... and with a winning lamb bringing a few hundred to tens of thousands of dollars at a Jr Livestock Sale as a Champion, it is a gamble many are willing to make! 

I have also been around a good deal of Columbias, Ramboullets and Corriedales... More of the Dual (Meat/Wool) purpose.  A god friend drove up here from WAY south Texas (Sanderson, TX) to pick up two ewe lambs ($300 each) so her daughter can have some improved wool quality in her ewe flock.  She will show these ewes as well, but a different market that the Club Lamb I guess!  A neighboring ranch runs Columbias, and they commonly give $200 to $500 for a GOOD ewe, with showring potential.... They show fleeces as well.

I don't think values have changed a whole lot over the years.  In the 80s and 90s I had Border Cheviots... and usually paid $200 each for nice ewes to build my flock.

Another thing to keep in mind is salvage value... Most of the older ewes, or cull ewes bring $25-50 each.


Jennifer Tucker
Moose Mtn Ranch


-----Original Message-----
From: fourhornfarm <fourhornfarm at verizon.net>
To: Betty Berlenbach <lambfarm at sover.net>
Cc: jacob-list at jacobsheep.com
Sent: Tue, Nov 17, 2009 7:21 am
Subject: Re: [Jacob-list] Jacobs



Thanks Betty. Anyone know about Suffolks, Dorsets, etc.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Betty Berlenbach 
To: fourhornfarm 
Cc: jacob-list at jacobsheep.com 
Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 6:05 AM
Subject: Re: [Jacob-list] Jacobs


I have a friend who raises coopworths, and I just paid $250 each for two lambs, unregistered!  She gets $500 and up for registered sheep.  Two years ago, it was $150 for unregistered.   When I had shetlands (from 96-03) registered lambs were $500, others from $600-$1200, in New England, though they were much less in the rest of the country.  The bottom fell out in about 2004 (I got out just in time) and now they are going for $250 or so, registered, when you can sell them; New England is flooded with them, so the competition is fierce.  Around here, registered romneys seem to go for about $200-$300 depending on the sheep.  Haven't checked out many other breeds.  Oh, 10 years ago I bought four navajo churro wethers for between $50 and $150 a piece.  
 
I think a lot depends on the part of the country you are in and the particular time; some sheep enjoy "fad" status for awhile and are very expensive mostly because of the rarity, and then things stabilize and they are priced according to their merits.  
 
A plain ol' crossbred ewe lamb or wether, by comparison, goes for about $100.  By the way, I generally get $250 for a registerable ewe or ram lamb, $100 for unregistered wether.  I try not to sell  unregistered or unregisterable fertile sheep, for I think it lowers the market for the rest of us to do so, as they are bred, and the owners then sell their lambs for what they paid for the parents...
 
----- Original Message ----- 

From: fourhornfarm 
To: jacob-list at jacobsheep.com 
Sent: Monday, November 16, 2009 10:17 PM
Subject: [Jacob-list] Jacobs


Here is another question I have been wondering about. What do those who raise registered modern breeds of sheep get for their breeding stock as opposed to what we get for our Jacob breeding stock?
 
Carl in Indiana


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