1. Current Practices in Weaned Sheep Marketing
Kathy Whitman, DVM, MS
Great Plains Veterinary Educational Center

4. Weaned lamb options Sell immediately Retain ownership
Replacement development
Niche markets

5. Factors that influence market timing
Cost of feed
Ability to carry
Cash flow
Goals of the operation???

6. Weaned vs. Market lamb Cost up until weaning will be the same
Factors that determine cost of gain:
Feed cost
Efficiency
Marketing endpoint (days on feed, market weight)
Health, death loss, etc.

7. Sale at weaning Who is the target buyer?
How do we make our producer’s product desirable to the target?

8. Retain ownership
More flexibility
More marketing options
More risk

9. Replacement development
Commercial operations
Seedstock operations
Purpose?
Purpose?

10. Niche Markets
Likely where veterinarians will fit in….