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03/24/12, 02:06 PM
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Price of grassfed lamb
A friend is taking orders for lamb halves...at $8.50 a pound (hanging weight)...it sounds a little high to me...but maybe I am wrong...the halves will be 30-45 pounds...I guess I was expecting something more like $6.00 a pound...what do you think of the price?
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03/24/12, 02:32 PM
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50 pound lambs here are selling for $200 on the hoof.
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03/24/12, 02:42 PM
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Lambs here usually go for about $150 for 70-80 lbs LIVE weight
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03/24/12, 03:13 PM
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Whoa. And people were complaining when we told them we wanted $5 per lb - cut and wrapped. Guess we better raise our prices....
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03/24/12, 03:15 PM
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Sounds like we are underpriced too. We had been selling for $7 per pound hanging weight and $2 per pound on the hoof.
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03/24/12, 05:05 PM
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The carp in the local grocery stores is pushing $9 a lb....
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03/24/12, 05:42 PM
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The closest store that has lamb has really nice chops for $11 a pound.
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03/24/12, 05:50 PM
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A full leg of New Zealand lamb in the super market last night was $54.00.
I didn't get the weight,but that price impressed me.
Lambs in Connecticut are in the $150-200 range at Easter, especially.
Best of luck.
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03/24/12, 05:51 PM
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Well...it's not sounding so high afterall....hmmm??? This is cut and packaged..
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03/24/12, 08:46 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Fair Light
Well...it's not sounding so high afterall....hmmm??? This is cut and packaged..
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It's a very reasonable price
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03/25/12, 01:26 PM
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A friend emailed me recently telling me she was getting $200 for her lambs direct from the pasture... so on the hoof.
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03/25/12, 08:13 PM
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Are sheep more expensive to raise that the price is so much higher than for pork or beef??
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03/25/12, 08:22 PM
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Sheep at the local auciton are going for at least $3 a lb on the hoof....
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03/25/12, 08:34 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Wildfire_Jewel
Are sheep more expensive to raise that the price is so much higher than for pork or beef??
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I believe it's a supply and demand issue. It's kinda a specialty thing. Goose is another in the same category. Saw a 20lb goose at the store for over $50. Having geese here on the homestead I know it doesn't cost that much to raise em up.
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03/26/12, 02:22 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Fair Light
A friend is taking orders for lamb halves...at $8.50 a pound (hanging weight)...it sounds a little high to me...but maybe I am wrong...the halves will be 30-45 pounds...I guess I was expecting something more like $6.00 a pound...what do you think of the price?
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It is Spring, and grass fed lamb or kid has more appeal for certain ethnic groups. Both are working against getting an inexpensive price... sort of like buying a tiller or a boat. If there is not a shortage, and the time period doesn't have a special significance for you, you might get a better price later.
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03/26/12, 10:07 PM
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I raise sheep - have you seen the price of Hay and feed lately?? How about the price of fertilizer for the pastures?? Get used to it - it will only go higher. Also remember, the price of the lamb isn't what's going up - the value of the dollar is crashing around you.
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03/27/12, 02:14 AM
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Originally Posted by Alice In TX/MO
The closest store that has lamb has really nice chops for $11 a pound.
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It can be double that here, but I am not in a lush green grass state. 
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03/27/12, 07:00 AM
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I'm not in a lush green grass state, either, as you know from your winky emoticon. 
It's really supply and demand. Not much meat on a widdle lamb, and the increase in the population of ethnic groups that eat it.
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03/27/12, 02:22 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Wildfire_Jewel
Are sheep more expensive to raise that the price is so much higher than for pork or beef??
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Well, they were certainly very expensive to raise last year. We had a drought that killed off all the pasture way, way earlier than usual. Then hay was next to impossible to find. I ended up paying over $100 per round bale of very so-so grass hay, as opposed to the usual $35 delivered for really good bermuda hay. Plus I had to feed it from late August/early September instead of starting November.
Pork is often fed commercial bagged feed - and that has certainly gone up quite a bit - but not tripled in price like hay. Beef is starting to go up now. There was something of a glut when cattle ranchers had to drastically reduce herds last year because they couldn't afford to feed them (drought again) Many of the ranchers around here were sending their breeding herds to auction and getting abysmal prices for them - that will have quite the impact on beef prices over the next couple of years, I think.
Mary
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