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Saskatchewan Cattle Market Continues Upward Trend

Feeder steer and heifer prices were higher across all the reported weight categories last week.
 
The largest price increase for steers occurred in the 400-500lb weight category, increasing $4.05 per hundred weight to end the week at an average price of $239.00 per hundred weight.
 
While Saskatchewan feeder heifer prices saw the largest increase in the 800+ pound category, up $7.71 per hundred weight to end the week at an average price of $163.59 per hundred weight
 
The weekly average steer price, across all reported weight categories, was $204.82 per hundred weight, the weekly average heifer price across the reported weight categories was $181.85 per cwt in Saskatchewan.
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Cleaning Sheep Barns & Setting Up Chutes

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Indoor sheep farming in winter at pre-lambing time requires that, at Ewetopia Farms, we need to clean out the barns and manure in order to keep the sheep pens clean, dry and fresh for the pregnant ewes to stay healthy while indoors in confinement. In today’s vlog, we put fresh bedding into all of the barns and we remove manure from the first groups of ewes due to lamb so that they are all ready for lambs being born in the next few days. Also, in preparation for lambing, we moved one of the sorting chutes to the Coveralls with the replacement ewe lambs. This allows us to do sorting and vaccines more easily with them while the barnyard is snow covered and hard to move sheep safely around in. Additionally, it frees up space for the second groups of pregnant ewes where the chute was initially.