I buy spring lambs that are being born now. I only raise a few for home use. I guess they are maybe 30 or 40 lbs when I get them. You can butcher them much earlier than I do, I think at 3-4 months at around 100 lbs. I wait longer so I can butcher mine at home once the weather is cool enough to let them hang in the unheated shed. At nine months they are getting pretty big, probably 150-ish pounds. I do not finish them on grain. I feed them on small amounts of grain (12% tindle mixed with ground corn) throughout their time. They each get about a cup of food twice a day. They spend all day on pasture and put on weight fast and spend a lot of time laying around chewing their cud.
I buy them from a friend of mine who keeps about 30 ewes. He told me that last year that lamb prices at the sale barn for something like three times what he had been getting. He was pleasantly surprised at how the price had gone up.
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