Australian Sheep! Ok What Does One Expect To Pay For Them?

[Bruce]

Ozzie sheep costs? I do not know... Beats the sheep out of me? :hystery: But it looks as if they paid about $150 USD (minimum) per head too much bringing the total to about $362 USD per sheep. Instead of about $210 per sheep they say should have been the price. No mention on transportation costs. So, any retired farmers from Oz have an opinion?

 

What I find interesting is they see the sheep for sale, agree to a price and pay and take posession, and then more than a year later decide that they should have paid less! I wonder if this works with car dealers too????? They appear to have no other issue than the price of the sheep, not the quality of the sheep.

 

 On “overpriced” sheep buy from Australia Mayor to file plunder raps vs Gov Marañon
By Danny B. Dangcalan (The Freeman) | Updated March 22, 2013 - 12:00am

 

0 0googleplus0 0BACOLOD CITY, Philippines — Pulupandan town Mayor Magdaleno “Magsie” Peña said Wednesday he will file graft and plunder charges against Negros Occidental Gov. Alfredo Marañon Jr. and provincial veterinarian Renante Decena in connection with the alleged P40-million overprice in the purchase of 5,760 sheep from Australia last year. Peña said his co-signatories in the charges will be Vice Governor Genaro Alvarez Jr., several Provincial Board members and broadcaster Donard Nojas.

 

The mayor said he will prepare the charges in seven days, so he was expected to file it next week. He added that 3rd District Rep. Patrick Lacson will accompany them to Cebu to file the case before the Office of the Ombudsman in the Visayas. Peña said that finally Lacson will comply with Marañon’s request for him to go to Cebu, but not to visit a rehabilitation center, but to file the charges against the governor himself.

 

The provincial government had purchased 5,760 sheep, at a total cost of P83.4 million, from the International Livestock Export Pty Ltd of Australia for the province’s food sufficiency program.

Peña earlier said he inquired from livestock farmers in Australia and allegedly found out that the purchase cost of the sheep was “overpriced” by approximately P34.6 million to P44.2 million.

Marañon, in reply to Peña’s plans, said in a text message to The Freeman: “We welcome that, in fact we have long suggested (that), so that the issue will be heard and evaluated by a proper venue, by an impartial arbiter. That is good because in the last two months or so, they have been using (that issue) as a propaganda tool by twisting the facts.”

 

The governor, lamenting that the “propaganda machine has already gone beyond the bounds,” reminded the media that the purchase “was approved by the vice governor and by the entire PB, through Ordinance No. 003; they concurred with every detail of the transaction, they were the ones who set the selling price among others.”

 

Peña countered by saying that he already had the communication from a livestock firm in Australia long before Marañon, provincial legal officer Jose Ma. Valencia, Decena, and provincial administrator Enrique Pinongan answered the issue. He allowed them to answer it before issuing a public notice so he could prove that they were all liars, said the mayor.

 

Valencia had earlier dared Peña to file charges against the governor and if he has evidence to prove that the P80.3-million worth of sheep purchased by the provincial government from Australia last year was “overpriced” by P40 million. “If they have the evidence, they should file a case in court. We cannot go on arguing about this alleged overprice and there is no arbiter to decide on it,” Valencia said. “With about P80 million allotted for the sheep purchase, are they saying that what arrived in Negros (5,760 sheep) should have cost only P20 million?” Valencia asked.  (FREEMAN)

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[Jollygoodfellow]

sheep prices fluctuate with the seasons and markets. If there is lots of feed then there are more sheep so the price is lower, if its been a drought then sheep are scarce so higher prices. Sheep or any livestock I would assume will be premium grade for export so again a higher price.

 

Farmer Tom

[Bruce]

sheep prices fluctuate with the seasons and markets. If there is lots of feed then there are more sheep so the price is lower, if its been a drought then sheep are scarce so higher prices. Sheep or any livestock I would assume will be premium grade for export so again a higher price.

 

Farmer Tom

 In the US, we generally think of huge sheep farms in Oz and NZ and there are the usual TV documentaries about sheep shearing and related tasks. As the article did not go into any transportation costs nor did it go into any quarantine periods in Phils or the feeding and care of said said sheep durring any such period, I wouls expect any such costs to adding to the price of the sheep. So a $150 per head cost can be raised a lot higher by transporting the sheep, by sea, over 1,000 miles and the feeding them before delivery.

 

So while the company that arrainged the deal may have in fact paid Sir Tom the farmer $150 (guessing) per sheep the deliverd price say 90 to 180 days later is / should be higher.  

[JJReyes]

Why sheep? To get quality wool, you need wintry weather and the sheep are sheared in the spring to prevent overheating with the approach of summer. Importation of sheep government agencies has been previously attempted and failed.

 

Goats are superior both for milk and meat production. A special feed is needed for milk goats. The goats for meat will eat anything.

[Bruce]

Goats are superior both for milk and meat production. A special feed is needed for milk goats. The goats for meat will eat anything.

 

Ah! But has anyone told the goats this? I would imagine not as soon as they found out that the milk goats get better food, the meat goats would make an attempt to masqurade as milk goats..... One would think that the mere knowledge that meat goats are eaten and milk goats are not (for a while at least) would be insentive enough to for the meat goats to try to pass themselves off as milk goats.  

 

I did not even think of the odd fact of importing sheep into a tropical environment as compared to goats.... :tiphat: