Rough Fell Draft ewes sell to £232 at North West Auctions Junction 36.
The much-anticipated annual prize show and sale of Rough Fell breeding sheep once again saw a packed ringside of buyers in attendance, keen to secure additional and replacement stock.
The pre sale show this year was judged by Mr Adrian Ellis, New Hutton who made the following awards:
PEN OF 5 ROUGH FELL EWES
1st P&S Hoggarth, Birkhaw
2nd NC&S Dodd, Manor Court
3rd E&K Bland, Cotegill
PEN OF 5 ROUGH FELL SHEARLINGS
1st NC&S Dodd, Manor Court
2nd P&S Hoggarth, Birkhaw
3rd P&S Hoggarth, Birkhaw
PEN OF 5 ROUGH FELL LAMBS
1st W Moore, New House Farm
2nd AG Mackie, Low Wilkinson Farm
3rd AG Mackie, Low Wilkinson Farm
PAIR OF ROUGH FELL EWES
1st NC&S Dodd, Manor Court
2nd E&K Bland, Cotegill
3rd VR Guy, Whinfell Terrace
Champion: P&S Hoggarth, Birkhaw (Pen of 5 Ewes)
Reserve Champion: NC&S Dodd, Manor Court (Pen of 5 Shearlings)
Strong bodied sheep were keenly completed for, with a pair of eye catching one crop ewes from VR Guy leading the sale at £232, with a pair of two crops from NC&S Dodd achieving £195. The first prize pen three crop ewes from P&S Hoggarth sold at £170, with others £165 NC&S Dodd. Other ewes were generally £120 to £135, with all sold averaging £121.
Shearlings sold to £162 on several occasions from P&S Hoggarth, with others £150 from NC&S Dodd, all sold averaged £118. Several pens of gimmer lambs forward sold to £98 from W Moore, with all sold averaging £84.
A date for your diary - Saturday 11th October, annual show and sale of Rough Fell Rams.
Herdwick, Cheviot & Other Hill Breeds.
Sale of predominantly Cheviot and Herdwicks provided a successful encore to the tremendous sale of the previous day and the Rough Fells this morning.
Herdwicks were a strong trade particularly for gimmer shearlings topping at £128 from MJ&JD Handley, Archers Hall. The average for gimmer shearlings was £123, strong ewes were in demand with a top price of £100 from VJ Edgar, averaging £90 overall.
Cheviot and Cheviot cross buyers were on form today, with demand for gimmer shearlings being particularly strong. Topping todays trade was L Thompson making £210, then closely followed with a pen at £200. Cheviot shearlings averaged £159.27 and ewes averaged £147.65. A special mention to the Curwen Family for a tremendous run of 140 shearlings and ewes, averaging £166.
On behalf of North West Auctions we would like to thank all vendors and buyers for what has been a fantastic two-day sale. We very much appreciate your customer and support, and we wish you all the best of luck for the remainder of the Autumn sales.