25 February 2025

J36 Crooklands Livestock Auction: J36 Sale of Pigs, Prime Hoggs and Cast Sheep, Tuesday 25th February 2025

PIGS

As with all sales there was a wide range of pigs on offer at this sale. Well finished pigs attracted keenest attention with Pietrain x gilts selling to £205 with other white gilts £195, £185 & £180. Coloured pigs and boars heavily discounted. Top of 182p/kg this sale.

Weaners and stores sold to £60 for gilts with others generally £40-£50. Over 50% of todays sale turned up unentered, it is in the interest of the vendors to pre-enter pigs for each sale by 12noon on the Monday prior to the sale.

PRIME HOGGS - Prime hoggs met with a furious trade

J36 held its weekly sale of prime sheep which resulted in buyers paying an arm and a leg for all types, with especially the handy weight hoggs seeing unparallel demand. AG Butler, Hambleton topped the day on his royal return at £210. While the top pence per kilo on the day went to Messrs Rogerson, Appleby who sold a pen of eight Beltex to 430p/kg. Three Texels were just short behind that at 429.5p/kg from RJ Byron, Preston. A typical show of sheep here at Kendal including many hill, horned and out of specification hoggs, a very desirable overall average of 349p/kg was achieved. Cheviots sold to 395p/kg from GM&A Jackson, Great Eccleston and Dorsets to 375p/kg from M&RW Stirzaker, Milnthorpe. Runs and runs of Texels, Beltex and continentals sold over the 400p/kg mark, resulting in a very good day all round.
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CULL SHEEP

The call for ewes was answered with another large entry forward, selling to an animated trade with an extremely impressive averaged of £123.31, for an entry comprising of half hill ewes. The strongest continental ewes sold to £265 on two occasions for Texel cross from LM Dickinson, Haverthwaite and Charollais cross from J Twigge, Lindale. Endless pens of the strongest ewes were £200 to £240, with the best first cross £180 to £210 and mediums £155 to £180. Mules sold to £194 from JET & AAE Hull, Winmarleigh. Other heavy Mules were £180 to £190, meated medium £150 to £170 and the smaller sorts £125 to £145. Pure hill ewes sold to £140 for Rough Fells, £130 for Cheviots, £118 for SBF, £108 for Swaledales and £100 for Herdwicks. Medium hill ewes were regularly £80 to £100, with smaller lighter weights £55 to £70.
An abundance of cull rams saw BFL sell to £245 and £235 from Bank House Farms, Leck. The strongest continentals achieved £232 for Texel, with other regularly £190 to £220 and mediums £150 to £180, with pure hill rams to £210 for Cheviots.

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PRIME HOGGS:

Texel: £210 £200 Park Farm Barn, £200 Helm Croft, £196 £195 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £194 £190 Park Farm Barn. Charolais: £196 £168 Tongue House Farm, £165 Halton Park Farm, £164 £162 Arklid Farm, £159 Preston Patrick Hall. Beltex: £193 £189 Mason Gill, £186 £82 £177 £164 Helks Farm, £161 Lane Ends Farm. Suffolk: £190 Halton Park Farm, £184 Helm Croft, £180 Station Hotel Farm, £175 £170 Helm Croft, £170 £167 Netherhouses Farm. Mule: £178 Nether House Farm, £170 £160 Netherhouses Farm, £156 Halton Park Farm, £155 Arklid Farm, £152 Halton Park Farm. Continental: £176 £168 £151 £150 Little Eccleston Hall, £140 The Crescent. Cheviot: £170 £161 Little Eccleston Hall, £155 Berryholme, £154 £149 Helks Farm, £147 Outrake Foot, £145 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage. Dutch Spotted: £170 Little Eccleston Hall, £140 Lane Ends Farm. Scottish: £157 Little Eccleston Hall. Rough: £148 High Swinklebank Farm, £142 High Borrowbridge, £140 £133 High Swinklebank Farm, £128 Millriggs, £122 High Borrowbridge. Swale: £146 £142 Netherhouses Farm, £142 Arklid Farm, £140 Nether House Farm, £134 Tills Hole, £131 Hazel Head Farm. Dorset: £135 Station Hotel Farm. Horned: £134 £113 £111 High Salter. Herdwick: £129 £120 Hazel Head Farm, £110 Green Cottages. Dalesbred: £128 Brown Brook.

CAST EWES

CHAROLLAIS: £265.00 Holmelands, £240.00 Tongue House Farm, £240.00 Lane Ends Farm, £205.00 Holmelands, £180.00 Lane Ends Farm. TEXEL: £265.00 Lane ends Farm, £220.00 Holmelands, £215.00 Ackenthwaite Farm, £215.00 Holmelands, £210.00 Holme Park Farm, £210.00 Slack Farm. LEICESTER: £240.00 Bank House Farms, £188.00 Tongue House Farm. HAMPSHIRE: £240.00 Bradleyfield House, £145.00 Curlew Rock. SUFFOLK: £238.00 Netherhouses Farm, £212.00 Ackenthwaite Farm, £210.00 Ackenrthwaite Farm, £208.00 Hare Tarn Farm, £180.00 Holmelands, £175.00 Ackenthwaite Farm. CONTINENTIAL: £210.00 Preston Patrick Hall, £165.00 Preston Patrick Hall, £148.00 Curlew Rock, £148.00 Hare Tarn Farm, £118.00 West Plain Farm, £112.00 Slack Farm. DORSET: £200.00 Hallbeck Farm. BELTEX: £195.00 Hare Tarn Farm. MULE: £194.00 Gibstick Hall Farm, £192.00 Station Hotel Farm, £188.00 Halton Park Farm, £180.00 Riddings, £175.00 Ackenthwaite Farm, £165.00 Ghyll Farm. DUTCHSPOTTED: £180.00 Green Cottages. CHAROLLAISXMULE:£145.00 Ghyll Fram, £122.00 Hare Tarn Farm. ROUGH FELL: £140.00 Riddings, £112.00 Ghyll Farm. CHEVIOT: £130.00 Moser Hill, £128.00 Sella Farm, £116.00 Nibthwaite Grange, £100.00 Kilnstones, £98.00 Lackslot, £96.00 The Park. RYELAND: £120.00 Abbots Reading Farm. SCOTCHBLACKFACE: £118.00 Riddings. SWALEDALE: £108.00 High Borrowbridge, £108.00 Nether House Farm, £96.00 Bank House Farms, £90.00 Ghyll Farm, £90.00 Bank House Farms, £88.00 Nether House Farm. MASHAM: £105.00 Green Bank Farm. JACOB: £100.00 Raw End Farm. DALESBRED: £100.00 Millriggs Farm, £88.00 Millriggs Farm. HERDWICK: £100.00 Far Kiln Bank, £78.00 Sella Farm.

CAST RAMS

LEICESTER: £245.00 Bank House Farms, £235.00 Bank House Farms, £225.00 Bank House Farms, £140.00 Riddings, £90.00 Brown Edge. TEXEL: £232.00 Nook Farm, £205.00 Netherhouses Farm, £190.00 Wreay Syke, £185.00 Bradleyfield House, £162.00 Curlew Rock, £160.00 Wreay Syke. DUTCHSPOTTED: £230.00 Curlew Rock. CHEVIOT: £210.00 Low Cregg Hall. CHAROLLAIS: £180.00 Green Cottages. BELTEX: £128.00 Sella Farm.

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J36 Crooklands Livestock Auction: J36 Sale of Pigs, Prime Hoggs and Cast Sheep, Tuesday 25th February 2025

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