29 April 2025

J36 Crooklands Livestock Auction: J36 Weekly Sale of Sheep with Lambs at Foot, Spring Lambs, Prime Hoggs and Cast Sheep, Tuesday 29th April 2025.

BREEDING SHEEP - 284 sheep and lambs

Shearlings with lambs averaged £310.58
Ewes with lambs averaged £276.96
Hoggs with lambs averaged £275

There wasn’t room to swing a cat for a packed area of regular and new clients today. Trade did slip a touch at the end of the sale but none the less trade on the whole remained strong.
Topping todays market was a pen of Beltex ewes with lambs reaching £420 x2 from FB Dunning, Penrith. The same firm also topped the single trade at £385, for the same goods.
Continental ewes were without question the most desired item today, especially if ewes were in good condition. Singles still dominated demand right through, especially for shearlings with another top run from G&KM Atkinson, Colby making £335, £320 and £315, the same firm also topped Mules shearling at £360.
Top price hoggs with singles reached the height of £295 for a Texel with Texel lamb from D Wilson. Hoggs were a good trade right through, coming to average of £275.
Next week is our first hogg and lamb show and sale of the month on Thursday 8th May, with a strong entry looking likely. All entries are welcome, and catalogue entries close on Wednesday!

Top Prices:
Texel shearling with twins topped at £350 from R Allinson.
Texel shearlings with singles topped at £335 from G&KM Atkinson.
Mule shearlings with twins topped at £360 from G&KM Atkinson.

Texel ewes with twins topped at £390 from J Wills.
Texel ewes with singles topped at £320 from R Allinson.
Mule ewes with twins topped at £375 from J&R Bell.
Mule ewes with singles topped at £262 from FB Dunning.
Beltex ewes with twins topped at £420 x2 from FB Dunning.
Beltex ewes with singles topped at £385 FB Dunning.
Blue Texels with twins topped at £300 from V Whitton.
Suffolks with twins topped at £335 form H Cook.
Suffolks with singles topped at £255 form H Cook.

Texel hoggs with singles topped at £295 from D Wilson.

PRIME LAMBS & HOGGS

Spring lambs enjoying sunshine in the fields and a hot trade in the ring, with more numbers required on a weekly basis to meet demand of buyers.
Hoggs on the other hand faced a very two-tier trade, with good 40kg to 45kg sheep being the most wanted types. A very mixy show of hoggs ranging from 25kg to 78kg resulted in a slight decrease in average pp/kg on the week, however anything in spec was very well bid for once again.
Hoggs topped at £192 for a single Texel from AG Butler, Hambleton. Texels at 44kg sold to £157 from AE&PC Capstick. A pen of four Texels just at 35kg reached £130 from Messrs Stuart. The same home sold 39kg hoggs to £135 and £138. Heavier sheep were regularly sold between the 300p/kg and 330p/kg mark, with 48kg hoggs from M&YS Barker selling to 331.3p/kg. Lighter hoggs were also a touch less on the week. 31kg Charollais sold to £105 or 338.7p/kg, these were from J Turnbull, Meathop. Cheviots of the same weight made £100 from F&TE Park.
For any further enquires ahead of next weeks sale, please contact Joel McGarva on 07920009097.

CAST SHEEP

Another increase number of cull sheep saw 625 local genuine farmer sheep forward, selling to another strong trade with ¾ of the sale being hard worked hill ewes, with a very respect average of £125 achieved. The strongest continental ewes sold to £275 for Charollais from JA&R Geldard, Levens with Texels at £260 from T Sharp, Levens, with other pens £220 to £245. The strongest first cross ewes were £185 to £210, mediums £160 to £180, with leaner cross bred ewes £120 to £140. Mules sold to £182 for North Country Mules from TMW&H Hodgson, Ulverston with Rough Fell Mules £180 from WR Clarke, Carnforth and Cheviot Mules £175 DJ Clarke, Broughton in Furness. Stronger Mules were £165 to £185, mediums £140 to £160, with smaller meated Mules £115 to £130. Pure hill ewes saw Lleyn to £190, Cheviots £172, Rough Fells £156, Swaledales £150 and Herdwicks £130.
Stronger end horned ewes were generally £120 to £140, mediums £102 to £115, with the smaller end £85 to £95 and the very smallest and leanest less.a consignment of goats sold to £195.
A large number of cull rams forward sold to £220 for a BFL from B Wilson & Sons, Selside, continentals to £192 from IL Dixon, Cantsfield. Hill rams sold to £130 from NW&EM Mason, Carnforth, medium Continental £140 to £160, with the smaller and leaner end £110 to £130.

Top Prices

HOGG & LAMB:

TEXEL: £295, £275, £255 Broom Lea.

SHEARLING & LAMB:

BELTEX: £385, £380 Raisgill Hall. MULE: £360 Green Farm, £280 The Borrans, £250 Tottlebank, £228 The Borrans. TEXEL: £350 Windygate, £348, £342 Heights Farm, £325 Ghyll Farm, £320 Windygate, £320 Green Farm. CONTINENTAL: £240 Easgill Head.

EWE & LAMBS:

BELTEX: £420 (x2) Raisgill Hall. TEXEL: £390 Egerton Lodge Farm, £335 Green Farm, £305 Holmescales Farm, £305 Lileyaks, £302 Low Waterside, £300 Lileyaks. MULE: £375 Sunny Brow, £332 High Woodend, £300 Farm Cottage, £290 Chapel Island View, £282 Easgill Head, £280 Raisgill Hall. SUFFOLK: £335 Farm Cottage, £255 Tottlebank, £255 Farm Cottage, £225 Rowan Cottage, £212, £192 Burton Meadow Barn. CONTINENTAL: £300 Farm Cottage, £202 Chapel Island View. BLUE TEXEL: £300 High Tenement Farm.

SPRING LAMBS:

DORSET: £144, £140, £135 High Biggarsbank. TEXEL: £143 The Old Vicarage, £140, £132 Hagg Farm, £120 The Old Vicarage.

PRIME HOGGS:

TEXEL: £192, £187, £185 Park Farm Barn, £173 Red Scar Farm, £173 Park Farm Barn, £168 Red Scar Farm. SUFFOLK: £169 Halton Park Farm, £157 New Hall, £147 Cracalt Farm, £145 Harbarrow Farm, £142 Cralcalt Farm, £140 Halton Park Farm. LEICESTER: £166, £150 Thorn Cottage, £134 High Borrowbridge. CHAROLAIS: £147 Harbarrow Farm, £137 Stakes Moss Farm, £129 Lane End, £115 Kellbrick Farm. MASHAM: £147 Holme House Farm. MULE: £144 Holme House Farm, £142 High Swinklebank Farm, £140 Fellside Farm, £140 Holme House Farm, £140 High Swinklebank Farm, £140 Halton Park Farm. HORNED: £141 Park House Farm, £119 Arklid Farm. CONTINENTAL: £138 Oak Aveune, £136 Sun Farm, £135 Owlnook, £130 Harbarrow Farm, £129 Cracalt Farm, £128 Summer Hill. SWALEDALE: £136 Fellside Farm, £136 Halton Park Farm, £120 Yoad Pot, £120 Browna Paddocks, £119 Thrimby Hall, £119 Fellside Farm. CHEVIOT: £135, £127, £124 Harbarrow Farm, £110 Mire House Farm, £100 Cragg House Farm. SCOTCH BLACKFACE: £132 Sun Farm, £128 Park Farm Barn, £120 Harbarrow Farm. ROUGH FELL: £130, £114, £100 High Swinkebank Farm. HERDWICK: £124, £118 Nether Hall Farm.

CAST EWE:

CHAROLAIS:£275.00 Low Foulshaw, £260.00 Low Foulshaw Farm, £252.00 The Old Vicarage, £210.00 The Old Vicarage, £172.00 Hall Farm, £154.00 Hall Farm. TEXEL: £260.00 Stakes Moss Farm, £245.00 Holmescales Farm, £200.00 Holme Park Farm, £200.00 The Olds Vicarage, £200.00 Steel Croft, £200.00 Thrimby Hall. LEICESTER: £235.00 Low Newton Farm, £170.00 Fellside Farm, £165.00 Fellside Farm, £152.00 Yoad Pot. CONTINENTIAL: £218.00 Riddings Farm, £186.00 Mireside Farm, £170.00 Park House Farms, £164.00 Park House Farm, £162.00 Sandham Farm, £160.00 Low Meathop. GOAT: £195.00 Hall Farm. LLEYN: £190.00 Low Foulshaw Farm, £176.00 Low Foulshaw Farm. MULE: £182.00 Arklid Farm, £180.00 Cinder Barrow, £176.00 Stakes Moss Farm, £175.00 Arklid Farm, £172.00 Catshaw Hall Farm, £172.00 Catshaw Hall Farm. CHAROLAISXMULE: £175.00 Thistle House, £152.00 Hall Farm. CHEVIOT: £172.00 Cragg House Farm, £160.00 Smithy Beck, £156.00 Cragg House Farm, £152.00 Forest Hall, £145.00 Thrimby Hall, £145.00 Thrimby Hall. SUFFOLK: £170.00 Hall FARM, £168.00 Hall Farm, £166.00 Hall Farm, £130.00 Yoad Pot, £125.00 Brow Head. ZWARTABLE: £170.00 17 Somme Avenue. ROUGH FELL: £156.00 Marsh House Farm, £155.00 Tills Hole, £144.00 Stakes Moss Farm, £140.00 High Green Farm, £110.00 Marsh Hose Farm, £80.00 Summer Hill. DORSET: £155.00 Hallbeck. SWALEDALE: £150.00 Ashstead, £148.00 Tills Hole, £140.00 Overthwaite, £138.00 Low Newton Farm, £135.00 Tills Hole, £130.00 Low Newton Farm. MASHAM: £140.00 Low Audlands, £130.00 Low Audlands. Herdwick: £130.00 Smithy Beck, £100.00 Thistle House, £74.00 Wall End Farm, HAMPSHIRE: £120.00 Endmoor Farm. BELTEX: £120.00 Row Farm. HORNED: £112.00 Hall Farm, £100.00 Yoad Pot, £70.00 Holme House Farm. JACOB: £110.00 Wall End Farm.

CAST RAMS:

LEICESTER: £220.00 Ashstead, £220.00 Ashstead, £130.00 Castle Syke Farm, £100.00 Flodder Hall. TEXEL: £192.00 Cantsfield Hall, £150.00 Row Farm, £150.00 Catshaw Hall Farm, £145.00 Arklid Farm, £120.00 Gilsmere Farm. MULE: £168.00 Catshaw Hall Farm. HAMPSHIRE: £150.00 Cantsfield Hall. DUTCHSPOTTED: £142.00 Hall Farm. ROUGH FELL: £130.00 High Green Farm, CHEVIOT: £105.00 Low Meathop. SWALEDALE: £102.00 Catshaw Hall Farm. CONTINENTIAL: £100.00 Flodder Hall.

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J36 Crooklands Livestock Auction: J36 Weekly Sale of Sheep with Lambs at Foot, Spring Lambs, Prime Hoggs and Cast Sheep, Tuesday 29th April 2025.

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