In the last few years we have taken lambs to market in a lorry. This has been easier to arrange as it is one big sort out and that's it, the majority of the lambs gone - but with transport costs rising and to try and reduce the potential risk of having all our eggs in one basket (all our lambs at one sale) we decided this year to go back to taking them to market in our own trailer, batch by batch. It is more work (more days going back and forth) and we have to find grazing for the lambs between the different sales, over a period of 6 weeks) but hopefully it will be worth it.
Prior to the first sale Farmer has to move the in by sheep around to allow the grass to recover in fields where the lambs will graze between speaning (weaning) and selling.
