But i do not know what age that cut off is. IMO, the only hope for steaks is to stew them for a long time, until the fat and fell render out. My Romanovs dress out approximately 47 – 48%, with a few dressing out to 50%. If lamb #1 truly weighed 100-120 lbs live, it should have hung around 50-60 lbs. We buy a significant amount of domestic lamb for our center of the plate menu items – mostly from the Midwest and more locally, Pennsylvania/West Virginia. So, we raise our lambs in the barns and cement paddocks on hay and grain, year round. Lamb live weights at slaughter and carcass grades. Abstract Dressing percentage (DO%), the dressed carcass expressed as a portion of live weight, is markedly influenced by the particular definition used. I think the more information for consumers, the better! ( Log Out /  Here in my community it is very hard to find mutton. May I share this on our website? Again, perhaps the farmer didn’t have a good way to verify live weight, and was just optimistically guessing. ... Mutton and lamb production was 27,000 tonnes, 0.5% higher than ... Table 2 shows the monthly average dressed carcase weight (DCW) of livestock slaughtered for meat for human consumpt ion in the United Kingdom. And, over-fattened lambs can really skew the hanging weight, yet yield no more meat than their leaner counterparts. I certainly see that person advertising continuously… I guess it’s buyer beware, you’d think people would be able to spot problems with these kinds of sellers before a purchase, but apparently not! I would like to know what that is :). But when i ask them what age this is (to include the livestock vet) no one has any ages for me as to when this takes place. Excellent post Michelle, and all your points hold the same with cattle. I wasn’t clear on whether the buyer meant that the lamb hung at 40 lbs or the final cuts were at 40 lbs. What would be the live weight of said critter? charlier64 it just goes to show, everyone has different markets, preferences, profit points, challenges, and opportunities and there is no one right way to do things! Farmers usually want to estimate cold (works) carcass weights (CCW) from live weights taken on lambs recently removed from pasture (FLW). Thanks for being a sound voice in the sheep industry. I’ve written before about the complicated math that goes into live versus hanging versus final cuts of meat […]. J S : Definitions are as follows: Lamb = less than 12 months of age Mutton = 1 yr of age or older. Every butcher has their own style of cutting, and their own opinion about the best cuts. h�bbd``b`f+�� �� H���� �I ��h�i�X� �H�2��� ADAS is conducting a study for Defra to provide a more robust estimate of the age of lambs at slaughter. Not worth paying for by-the-pound, nor extra work to cut off during butchering. Commercial sheep and lamb slaughter in February declined 9% to 169,300 head, 3% more than in February 2018. They have too many layers of fat and fell, leaving you wanting to cut the things with an X-Acto knife to get the meat out. The second thing about lamb #1? Needless to say he wasn’t a repeat customer , Thanks Leon, sure you can link to it. Hope that helps. So if Calista is de-worming more diligently, or has better-managed pasture, that itself could be the biggest reason for her animals out-performing her neighbors’. The weight loss between live and hanging weight varies- partly by breed. (Not to mention it pushes the envelope of the law, if it’s not USDA inspected meat). There is such a wide variety of breeds, and often the big, fast-growing breeds also render the toughest meat. So, farmer #1 really should be putting the brakes on his lamb growth before they get this big and fatty, both for his own profitability as well as customer satisfaction. Dressed weight after slaughter seems to be variable based on breed type. from what I gathered I think it was the seller in Salkum who sodl the lambs….they get the lambs from auction then resell…..some of the “lambs” are fully grown and others are barbs…..i have heard a lot of complaints about this sellers, from sheep/goats dying the day after to people buying milk goats that have mastitis or non-milkers and he doesn’t repsond back…. Especially from those of us who raise wool baring sheep. Versus, if I take the meat home and bag it out of my own freezer for the customer, it could leave the customer wondering if I held back a few things for myself. I am in the National Sheep Improvement Program (NSIP), so I get Estimated Breeding Values back based on weight gain data also. Lambs can partially compensate for lower milk availability by consuming more pasture. It can be very confusing figuring out the whole “weight thing”. We picked a combo > of Katahdin, Croix, and Dorper….. that is what was most available around > us. Most lambs dress out 50 – 55%, with hair sheep being more like 45 – 50%. Where I live (Seattle area), there isn’t much market for grain-fed or feedlotted lamb. Carcass weight and fatness I think it’s everyone’s concern, trying to find that magic “knee bend” in the growth curve, where a lamb dramatically slows gaining muscle mass, and starts to mostly add fat, or generally slow down in gains. This lamb has been on alfalfa and grain for 2 months. The Standard Quality Quotation is a UK industry standard weight band for the carcase of dressed prime sheep weighing between 12kg and 21.5kg. A lot will depend on breed. Great article. Deadweight pig price for all carcases weighing over 90kg calculated by QMS from prices and numbers published by AHDB for three weight categories (90-99.9kg, 100-104.9kg and >105kg) So this could wind up being an animal close to age two, or an animal that’s only 11 months old. We can get our lambs to 100 lbs in 3 – 4 months feeding heavy grain diets. Research shows lamb growth peaks somewhere between day 20 and 40 of lactation (at an average of 250-350g/ head/day). The other big variable, of course, is management. Daily Average and Weekly Average for England, Wales and Great Britain: Source: AHDB/LAA/IAAS. endstream endobj 314 0 obj <. We mostly eat cull ewes, and sell the lambs. If you are grass-fed you will be accepting lower gains because the forage quality varies so much, and the lambs face a constant parasite challenge. ( Log Out /  Sheep slaughter totaled 182,300 head, 11 percent below last year. As per GRE instructions: “It may help to draw a picture of the problem.” Good luck! An estimated 20,000 tonnes (cwe) of Scottish reared lamb (average carcase weight 20.3kg) and 608 tonnes of mutton (average carcase weigh 30.9kg) was estimated to be processed in Scotland. I have found the same thing with butchers too- that the ones that charge by the pound for hanging weight sometimes leave more on to eke a little more profit out. I think our herding trial friends fall into this trap as well, looking for inexpensive sheep on which to work dogs. I am not looking for staying under a certain age specifically either. Meat packers typically penalize the seller if lambs are over 120 lbs, because they know this is just extra fat weight. ( Log Out /  If you’re going to throw everything in the stew pot with curry and skim the fat pools off the top, it may not matter. Lo and behold, another excellent response to a similar conversation I was having just the other day! My Katahdins consistently dress above 50%, often well above, and that’s coming straight off of wet, green pasture, so that is a very good yield. If you have any info please pass it on to me as i want to get the most meat for our time and for any future customers, not fat growth. They grow slower and the flavour of the meat tends to stay closer to lamb than mutton for some unknown reason even at 2 – 3 yrs of age, I have heard from other breeders. P.S. You’re welcome, Chass, glad it was helpful! And why buyers should be careful about paying by the pound for live or hanging weight if they aren’t confident that the farmer isn’t over-fattening. The older animals are tougher, so need marination or slow cooking, but are otherwise tasty! If we are expecting 75% yield from a 75 lb hanging weight lamb, that should be about 56 lbs of meat. Now let’s see…if, given your stated facts and figures, you can extrapolate the following in reverse: one leg of lamb weighing 4.3324 pounds, @$13 per pound approximate..and unboned, too. leafy green grass, legumes, brassicas. So I grow what my market demands, and also what I prefer to raise/eat. About a third of Scottish lamb goes for export, and 98% of that is to the European Union. For other menu items, we buy Australian lamb as well. Feel free to ask any more questions. At that point, you subtract the hide, head, blood mass, the internal organs, and typically the leg below the front knee and hind hock joint. Again I too have a blog and would like to know if I can share your link and post about the weight difference on mine? We will expect more fat than we are used to based on your article. Thank you, the Shepherdess. It’s possible that the farmer doesn’t have a good way to weigh his lambs to know this, and was just guessing the lamb weighed between 100-120 lbs. One under-estimated, and one over-estimated, and neither is good. It’s possible if all the cuts were deboned, that could explain some of that loss. 313 0 obj <> endobj Can you direct me to more info on growth spurts and such? Case in point- here is an anonymous post on craigslist from a week or two ago, from an obviously disappointed lamb customer. Cattle slaughter monthly average (UK) Source: DEFRA. That is, of course, not a reliable indicator of age, so we probably have a lot of animals that get miscategorized. Some of the less traditional breeds which grow a little slower and stay lighter in frame may be the best tasting; but of course you pay more per pound. Not to mention that the farmer has just wasted a lot of extra feed, pumping it into an animal that’s just laying down fat. In the commercial markets, there isn’t good differentiation between hogget and lamb- as long as the spool joint breaks, it’s considered lamb, if it doesn’t, it’s mutton. I also think that when the customer picks up their meat from the butcher, they will feel more trusting that they got “their” animal, and the whole animal. They would be even higher if feedlotted. But the system normalizes for rearing environment, so it doesn’t matter how the animals are raised, we get scores back that tell us which have the best potential for passing on improved genetics for growth regardless of feeding system. Post was not sent - check your email addresses! The average live weight was up 6 pounds from the previous year, at 291 pounds. So there is no way to define a perfect age for slaughter. Ultimately, you just have to find the right combination of what works for you, and your market! I have no idea if we are doing it right lol because just like with butchers having their own cuts, farmers seem to have their own beliefs and ideas on it all. charlier64 thanks for your comments. But i keep thinking there has got to be some sort of published standard that explains all of this and was used traditionally, age, weight, breeds, etc. The butcher is like an escrow service between me and the buyer. […] But that is not the poor butcher’s issue, that’s between the buyer and the farmer. More weight is lost once the frame is taken off the rail and fabricated into actual retail cuts. It is mainly only the older generation that enjoy mutton or pasture fed meat. I have no idea who this is, nor do I know the two farmers to whom he/she is referring (but I know from the descriptions neither one is me!). Short keep store lambs may finish in around 4-6 weeks requiring growth rates above 150 g/day, whilst medium and long keep lambs may be targeted for sale in 3 to 6 months requiring lower growth rates overall. Our predation is excessive here, if you put them out on grass, it is a certainty that you will lose some to coyotes and/or parasites unless you use guardians of some sort. $�Azu�D�A ay�����H���~��=� 94S So that doesn’t help us either. Texels are a pretty high performance grower, and someone’s random crossbreds are probably not nearly in the same league. If the butcher said the animal hung at 75 lbs, that means that animal probably really weighed over 150 lbs live! We are pasture raising, with hay supplement in the winter. Said anytime before that is a waste. Pasture is the slowest way to grow lamb and the most risky, as they get parasites that slow down growth and can even kill them. There is a buyer for every type, shape, weight, age, size, etc. %PDF-1.5 %���� The latest industry data, analysis and insights from the lamb sector to help inform your business decisions. I too live in the Pacific Northwest and raise sheep. Cattle, sheep and pig slaughter statistics: October 2015 published. Here in Canada, the definition of lamb is less than 12 mos of age and mutton is 1yr old or older. Per hectare The average stocking rate, duration of batches and lamb liveweight gain/ha/day over all batches of lambs was similar for both farmlets (Table 3). Sheep lose about half their weight going from live weight to hanging weight. But of course not every market wants that product. He/she sounded disappointed with the second one, no? This person’s example is actually a great one! De-worming protocols alone will make a huge difference in lamb live weight gains, as does feed quality. So, no breed mixes or feeding strategies are ‘wrong’ or ‘right’. However, this was not quite the case seen across all weight, with heavy lambs seeing the largest price rises both compared to their five year average and the previous year’s level. lamb growth rate, including ewe body condition, ewe milking ability, pasture quality and quantity, climatic conditions and the genetic ability of the lamb to grow. Hair sheep typically are leaner than wool sheep. The consumer’s complaint that the “leg meat was missing” is a little bit of a mystery, an indeed maybe he/she got swindled. It just depends on how much bone mass, rumen content weight, and fat each animal has, and they’re all quite a bit different. I reach that weight on average between 4 and 5 month with my male market lambs. Thanks for posting. Carcass Given the variation between different production systems, breeds and regions the age of lambs at slaughter varies widely from as young as 10 weeks of age to over 12 months but it is assumed that on average a UK lamb will be between 6 and 7 months old when slaughtered. They are selected for slaughter from 10 weeks of age in May at 40 kg liveweight, with sales continuing through to October when the final April-born lambs leave the farm. No grisle in grain fed, they are very, very tender. In 35 years, we’ve learned a lot and grown a loyal customer base for our lamb dishes. A lady advertised her lamb weighs 110-120 lbs and the actual hanging weight was 75lbs according to the butcher’s written receipt, and I received about 40 lb of meat. But then others online in forums say well that is not true lamb then it is mutton. Latest cattle, sheep and pig slaughter statistics. On Sat, Mar 31, 2018 at 12:58 AM The Collie Farm Blog wrote: > J S commented: “Hi Michelle, We are new to growing lamb. Yes, Celesta, Texels are known to dress out the highest lean meat of all breeds….with 55 – 60% being the norm. The traditional American commodity meat market breeds  have always been rewarded by scale weight, not palatability (and we wonder why lamb is on an eighty-year decline in this country?). Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. I want to grow them as long as i can while still gaining meat, and not just fat or bones. I strongly believe the consumers lack of knowledge about the difference in live weight, hanging weight, and the end result has hurt sheep farmers in the Northwest. The grain fed flavour seems to be the predominant choice of most customers. May I link to it from our website where we try to educate buyers about butchers, cuts, and such? Unfortunately, there is no set of cut-and-dried answers, because there are so many variables. Both sheep and lamb slaughter declined, primarily due to public holiday interruptions; Carcase weights. But the buyer only got 40. Peak sales are in June and July. I frequently have people ask me how to figure out live- versus hanging-weight, and how much they are paying per pound for their final cuts of meat. But if you don’t say anything, butchers will get into “cow mode” and often cut up half the animal into steaks! Some butchers include the head in the hanging weight. The diet grass or soy? So, if you don’t specify, you get the default (whatever that is). However, there are some lines of Katahdins and Dorpers which I think are starting to approach the performance of Texels; so soon it may not be relevant to lump all hair sheep into one category anymore. OTOH, I don’t run much risk of acidosis like in a feedlot setting, so the losses may be even in either system. We can get lambs to 100 lbs on grain as young as 3 – 4 mos, which is what the market desires. Some breeds will put on more fat at a young age, like Dorsets, so they are best for the light lamb market, whereas some other breeds don’t start laying down fat until after 100 lbs, so are more suitable for the heavy lamb market. I find no difference in flavor, since our animals are grass-fed, that may be a factor. . All in all, it’s unfortunate that this craigslist buyer ended up feeling ripped off- I hope he/she truly wasn’t. Us producers need to help each other to learn. Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. Farmers Weekly seeks to ensure but cannot guarantee that all information contained in the Prices and Trends sections is correct. TMJ, Yes, TMJ, I always say, I do most of my farming on the computer, because there is a lot of math involved… What’s been kind of a bummer this year is that the market has bottomed-out, so meat packers are only paying about $1/lb live weight. Ouch, CF, this post reads like one of the math problems on my GRE years ago. They end up buying some skeletal cull animals from somebody, bringing OPPV and other things onto their place, and it ends up costing them a lot more than if they’d just pay a reasonable price for healthy animals to begin with. But now it is “lost knowledge” for the majority of America! So, for starters, that’s too heavy. my texel/cross lambs come in at 80lbs hanging weight at 6m being just on pasture, there isn’t a lot of fat. Sometimes I convince them, sometimes not! %%EOF I find it a struggle trying to promote, get people interested in and educate people about lamb. Do not permit lamb carcasses to freeze within a day after slaughter or the meat may toughen. 0 But I really don’t like it, I find it to be very gamey, fatty and gristle-ey compared to what we raise on grass, which is very mild, tender and lean. I though all customers were given a cut list if buying a whole animal or side? :-\. More like veal, I suppose. I just sent in some purebred Ile de France ram lambs to be processed, at 3.5 mos they were 98 – 113lbs lbs live. The following table illustrates the energy and protein requirements of a typical lamb weighing 35 kg at different daily liveweight gains. Lamb growth can stay high in late lactation if pasture quality is over 10.5 MJME/kg DM e.g. Lamb and mutton production, at 10.6 million pounds, was down 17 percent from October 2019. If one of these factors is weak or missing, growth rate targets are unlikely to be achieved. We wean at 2 mos and they have creep grain available to them while suckling, and once weaned, they grow just as fast. Let’s check the math: What’s wrong with this picture? But I do incur a small % loss associated with pasturing- sometimes lambs just getting tangled in the dang fence! It weights only 40 lbs from a 100 lb lamb, and visually inspected after I got home – all four leg meat were missing. Wool sheep are fed differently and gain differently and the structure of the animal is different, type of meat and growth is also different. Carcass weight of slaughtered cows in the United Kingdom (UK) 2003-2018 Amount of slaughtered cattle in the United Kingdom (UK) 2003-2018 Major U.S. states based on cattle slaughter 2018 The average sheep and lamb live weight declined 2 pounds to a 132 pound average, 11 pounds lighter than a year ago. Obviously, choosing bone-in versus boneless cuts will impact the final weight yield of cut & wrapped meat. Lamb and sheep farmers around here let their hair sheep grow to 2 yrs and then process it. The top lambs get to 80 pounds at three and a half months. We picked a combo of Katahdin, Croix, and Dorper….. that is what was most available around us. I believe a really excellent yield for a transported, feedlot lamb is around 58%. very good info very helpfull. Total prime lamb production in Scotland was estimated to yield 51,883 tonnes (cwe) based on an average carcase weight of 18kg. ( Log Out /  Liveweight market prices across the UK were up … It is just so common here that I expected it would be the same everywhere. The responses also add much color to an already vivid picture. But the biggest influencer is what the animal is “full of.” Pastured animals are full of more water and fiber, so will lose more weight during butchering than an animal that has been largely grain-fed. But there is one restaurant in Victoria, BC that offers both lamb and mutton burgers. Many people just want to get to the bottom line: “how much per pound am I paying for the final cuts, and who is the cheapest?” This is where I think buyers can really go astray and be disappointed. The commercial industry cheats- since they don’t know the age of individual lambs at the time of slaughter, they say as long as the spool joint breaks, it’s still a lamb. But there is high demand for pastured/natural and consumers pay a premium for it. We are lucky in that we have a really great local butcher that is really good at explaining and helping new buyers to understand and get what they want. Finished lamb prices are into their third week of sharp price rises amid fierce competition from buyers for dwindling supplies. We personally hate lamb steaks in our household- we find they are just hard to cut up and eat! This is very helpful! The average number of ‘lamb days’ and average postweaning daily liveweight gain (DLWG) can be worked out using the information, as follows: Calculating the average ‘lamb days’ to slaughter postweaning Per lamb batch, compare the weaning date of the group to the slaughter date and calculate days from weaning to slaughter; One local guy includes the hooves, too. They bagged and wrapped the box and put in the trunk for me. Grain fed dominates our market here as most desireable that fetches top dollar at all the meat auctions. Director, Culinary Operations All their data is based on how fast they gain weight. I am lucky to live in an area with lots of smaller farms. It can sometimes take 8-12 months to get them up to 100 lbs, unless grain or alfalfa is used to speed their gains. But it tastes the same to me. It probably gets back to the obsession some people have with $/lb. Glad to find your blog as well! This price series shows old season lambs from 1st January to the third Monday in May and new season lambs thereafter. So lambs are 18 months. 15 October 2015. I am trading fish for a 9.5 month lamb right now and wanted to know what to expect. Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. They may also put a lot of the shoulder meat and the shanks into grind or stew meat. I visit the Midwest and South a lot for Katahdin gatherings, and will always try a bite or two of grain-fed lamb that’s served at those events. Lamb #2 looks more typical to me for local lamb. But, given that the farmer handled the butchering on behalf of the buyer, it’s more likely that the lamb didn’t get cut the way the buyer was expecting. If the butcher said the animal hung at 75 lbs, that means that animal probably really weighed over 150 lbs live! The organisation for beef & lamb levy payers in England, adding value to the cattle & sheep industry through R&D, events, promotion, publications Your hair sheep are different than wool sheep. Grain fed lambs grow much, much faster than pasture fed and after 2 – 3 mos of age, when the lambs are no longer only drinking milk, and they start to eat the pasture, the flavour of the meat on pasture changes to closer to mutton than grain fed lamb. Need to help each other to learn get our lambs to 100 lbs on grain as young 3... 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