BREEDING EWES

The sale commenced with breeding ewes which once again saw buyers keen to secure proven breeding stock.
Mule ewes sold to a top price of £200 for 3 crops from FI & ME Little with the flock dispersal on behalf of G & C Rylands seeing 1 crops sell to £195 with 2/3 crops £170-£185. 4 crop mules from TMW & H Hodgson sold at £165.
¾ bred ewes sold to £245 for Texels from N Walker with others to £220 from D Mcclure. 1 crop Texel x Mule ewes from G & C Rylands sold to £195 with 2/3 crops sell to £175.
Other notable prices include Suffolk x 1 crop ewes to £185. Pure cheviot 4 crop ewes to £155 and Texdale 1 crops to £195.

GIMMER SHEARLINGS

Another successful breeding sale wrapped up today.
Trade for mules was on fine form, coming out at an average of £234. Top of the trade for mules today was achieved by three separate vendors, GE & MG Dixon, Nigel Barker and Trevor Sharp, all reaching £270.
Texel trade reached greater heights, however the trade for pens that weren’t top spec were a little selective. Topping the sale overall was N Walker, Ulverston with a tremendous pen at £350, with a large proportion of better end pens over the £270 mark.
Overall average for all shearlings today was £220.83 with a total of 800 forward.

Next week is the two day sale of draft ewes! Swaledale on the Friday, Rough Fell on the Saturday.

The next sale of breeding sheep is Wednesday 1st October for all classes of breeding sheep to include second show and sale of gimmer lambs and Boys are Back in Town show and sale of 250 breeding rams.

Don’t hesitate to contact the team for entries or information.

PEDIGREE SHEEP

1400gns tops the Pedigree sale at J36 for Dutch Spotted Gimmer Lamb

Dutch Spotted trade was good from start to finish topping at 1400gns for a gimmer lamb from J Stead, Richmond who also topped the gimmer shearling at 1050gns. Gimmer shearlings also reached 1000gns from S Mitchell, Lazonby with rams to 850gns for a shearling ram from DA Dixon, Grayrigg and for a lamb from J Stead, Richmond. Other notable prices saw 750gns paid for the pick from AP Metcalfe, Crook and 620gns for the best from GM Farms, York.

Beltex sold to 800gns from CM Jennings, Kendal with Badger Face Texel to 700gns from S Coward and 500gns from L & F Brown, Barnard Castle.

The annual show and sale of Charmoise attracted keen interest from commercial farmers looking for rams suitable for ewe lambs. This section topped at 520gns for the overall champion gimmer shearling from D & M & S Prince, Chesterfield with rams to 420gns from IT Jones, Holyhead. Other rams to 400gns x2 from B Mactaggart, Hawick and 300gns from P & C Palfreyman, Bakewell.