STORE LAMBS

What a start to the season with an entry on proportion to last year, selling to a packed ring side of buyers all keen to take advantage of the current abundance of grass. Today’s sale achieved an average of £110.47, which showed a high level of confidence in the sheep trade going forward with all vendors leaving extremely well suited with prices achieved.
The best short keep lambs attracted the keenest interest, selling to £149 for a pen of Texel cross lambs from AT Threlkeld, Ulverston. Closely followed by others at £144 from G&C Ryland, Underbarrow and £144 NP&CE Buckley, Staveley, with other pens £128 to £135. Fresh clean pens of medium keep lambs were regularly selling at £110 to £122, with younger long keep continental lambs well sort after ranging from £92 to £108. Hill bred lambs sold to £133 for Cheviot cross from RI Dixon, Low Newton with North County Mules well bid for to £117 from H Cook, Finthwaite, Cheviot Mules £114 from NP&CE Buckley and other NCM Mules generally £97 to £108. Pure hill lambs saw Rough Fells sell to £94 from M&G German with Herdwicks to £58 from J&E Lancaster.

Sale Statistics:
Suffolks sold to £122, averaged £110.
North Country Mules sold to £117, averaged £101.
Texel cross sold to £149, averaged £112.
Beltex sold to £144, average £129.
Dutch Spotted sold to £112, averaged £104.
Welsh sold to £80.

The next sale of store lambs is on Thursday the 31st July with vendors encouraged to enter lambs with confident, entries for the catalogue are required by Wednesday 23rd July. Also, on this day; early sale of 500 breeding ewes, shearlings and rams.