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Good patti & good for a nice weather day! You accomplished a lot. Nice. A relief, I feel ya!
Purplequeenvt in 2025
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farmerjan
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Nice to get an unexpected nice day and to get some things done in more pleasant conditions...
Great, that the ewe is letting the other lamb steal some... It was a good move for you to keep her lamb on her, and the other can steal for a bit and both will continue to grow if they are getting a little extra grain also...
Great, that the ewe is letting the other lamb steal some... It was a good move for you to keep her lamb on her, and the other can steal for a bit and both will continue to grow if they are getting a little extra grain also...
Baymule
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It’s always a tug on the heartstrings when lambs and grown sheep go to auction. I tell
myself that I can’t keep them all.
myself that I can’t keep them all.
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purplequeenvt
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Prices were lower than the 5/11 sale, but still ok overall. My 2 30lb 7-8 week old lambs that weren’t graded and were put in the feeder lamb pen sold for more per lb than my BIL’s lot of prime/choice lambs.
I got more than I was expecting for my culls so that was good.
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purplequeenvt
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I listed my ewe lambs for sale last night and I almost immediately got a message asking about them. The guy asked what I was asking, but didn’t ask any other questions so immediately got a little suspicious. I asked him what he was looking for and his response was that he was “just getting into sheep.”
I sent him a message with more details of what I have available and the price (much higher than you could get at a sale) and he never responded. I’m fairly certain that he was looking for groups of cheap lambs to flip around and resell at a sale.
I sent him a message with more details of what I have available and the price (much higher than you could get at a sale) and he never responded. I’m fairly certain that he was looking for groups of cheap lambs to flip around and resell at a sale.
Baymule
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Flaky people are a pain to deal with. Taking sheep to auction is so much easier and you don’t have to deal with idiots.
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purplequeenvt
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I *may* be wrong about this guy after all. He responded like 10 minutes after I posted here and said he wants to get 1 ewe. We shall see if he follows through.
SageHill
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It could be that he is just getting started in sheep and has no idea of where prices are - what's good, what's sky high, what's too good to be true. Just sayin' as I know I didn't have much of an idea other than what herding trial sheep were valued at (has to be put in the herding premium for replacement value IF). But then there are a lot of flakes and quick resellers as well. Hoping he's what he says he is.
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purplequeenvt
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True. I’m more than a little jaded trying to sell sheep here. I think 90% of people that reach out are either livestock dealers/flippers or just plain time wasters.
I had a guy a couple years ago who said he wanted to buy all of my ewe lambs (it was around 12) but he couldn’t get them for a week or so. He then proceeded to make excuses, pens not ready, truck not available until x day, truck broke down, etc. I was going out of town for a couple weeks and he said “oh I’ll just send you a deposit and pick up when you get back”. I refused to take a deposit because I was pretty sure he wasn’t going to show up at all. I reached out to him when I was home and he never responded. Not sure if he was just wasting my time or found something cheaper elsewhere.
Baymule
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Why do flaky people even bother? They must live in some cloud in LaLa Land.
