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Lancaster Livestock Auction: Lancaster Weekly Sale of Prime Lambs & Cast Ewes, Monday 8th December 2025.

CULL SHEEP

Plenty of interest in cull sheep with another increase on numbers forward greeted with buyers approval. Better end continental cross ewes £175 to £200 topping at £222 from ST Birkett & Son, mediums £148 to £170. Mules topped at £169 from WB Kellet with other heavies £158 to £165, mediums £130 to £155. Pure hill ewes saw cheviots £148, Swaledale £107 with leaner horned ewes £75 to £95.

Several rams forward selling to £220 for texels.

Keep these ewes coming with buyers keen to secure sheep on a Monday morning.

PRIME LAMBS
A market SQQ of 323p/kg achieved today with well finished lambs attracting keenest buyer interest topping at 398p/kg and others generally 350p/kg to 380p/kg, grass finished lambs to 367p/kg with most 320p/kg to 335p/kg provided they fell within specification. Best of the heavy weights to 337p/kg, with most 270p/kg to 290p/kg for hill bred. Heavy weights led the sale topping at £181 with others £176, £175, £172, £170, standards to £175 and light weights £129.

Business as usual next week at NWA Lancaster and throughout all of December.

Top Prices

PRIME LAMBS:

BELTEX: £181 Castle Mill Farm, £176, £175 Deep Clough, £172 Castle Mill Farm, £170 Oak Aveune, £166 Castle Mill Farm. TEXEL: £170 North Farm, £167 Park Farm Barn, £166 North Farm, £165, £164 Oak Aveune, £160 North Farm. CHEVIOT: £159, £155 High Tenement Farm, £145 Cuerdale Hall Farm, £141 Yarlsber Farm, £135 Marshaw Farm, £135 Yarlsber Farm. CHAROLAIS: £158 Park Farm Barn, £152 Bensons Farm, £151 Broseley Hall Farm, £149 North Farm, £147 Burns Farm, £147 Broseley Hall Farm. SUFFOLK: £157, £147 The Hawthornes, £147 Higher Fair Snape Farm, £142 Park Farm Barn, £142 Oak Aveune, £140 Park Farm Barn/ CHEVIOT MULE: £150 Yarlsber. MASHAM: £150, £142 Allcocks Farm. CONTINENTAL: £149 Old Glasson Farm, £148 Cuerdale Hall Farm, £147 Allcocks Farm, £146 Higher Fair Snape Farm, £136 Lower Lingart Farm, £136 Old Glasson Farm. MULE: £145 Yalsber, £141, £140 High Tenement Farm, £135 High House Farm, £131 Thornbush Farm. SWALEDALE: £108 (x2), £106, £93 Marshaw Farm.

CAST EWES:

TEXEL: £222 Hall Croft Barn, £204 Birch House Cottage, £182 Castle O Trim, £174, £170 Lower Brockholes Farm, £168 Moss Gate Farm. CHEVIOT: £192 Low Croft, £148 Lower Brockholes Farm, £128 Castle Mill Farm, £127 Lower Brockholes Farm, £118 Rose Haven, £110 Lower Brockholes Farm. CONTINENTAL: £174 Lower Brockholes Farm, £152 Pilling Hall Farm, £142 Jacksons Farm, £134 Bensons Farm, £134 Lower Brockholes Farm, £132 Bensons Farm. SUFFOLK: £170, £162 Bensons Farm. MULE: £169 Low Croft, £162, £160 Pilling Hall Farm, £158, £136 Bensons Farm, £136 Burns Farm. DORSET: £150 Lower Brockholes Farm. CHEVIOT MULE: £136 Rose Haven. MASHAM: £120 Castle Mill Farm. SWALEDALE: £107 Thornbush Farm, £102 Birch House Cottage, £90 High House Farm, £89 Thornbush Farm, £84 High House Farm. DALESBRED: £84 Birch House Cottage.

CAST RAM:

TEXEL: £220 Greenlot Farm, £158 Hall Croft Barn. SWALEDALE: £118 Marshaw Farm.

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