13 May 2025

J36 Crooklands Livestock Auction: J36 Weekly Sale of Sheep with Lambs at Foot, Spring Lambs, Prime Hoggs & Cast Ewes, Tuesday 13th May 2025.

BREEDING SHEEP (331)

Averages:

Hoggs and Lambs: £308.00
Shearlings and Lambs: £285.38
Ewes and Lambs: £245.05

The heat certainly isn’t drying up trade for sheep and lambs at the Costa del Kendal. Trade today remained firm considering the talk that trade was slipping elsewhere.
A large number of singles forward today, topping today’s single trade was William Gardner with a texel lamb making £325.00. Twins were strong on the whole, however ewes perhaps varied compared to the ewes with singles. Twins topped at £345.00 from JM and NJ Strickland with a tremendous pen of mule ewes,
Hoggs with lambs were fit to stand with last Thursdays trade, with Texel hoggs with a Texel Lamb making £320.00 from Matt Allinson and Mules with Texel lambs making £290.001 from Robert Falshaw. Gathered up a large entry for next week, more entries are welcome. Don’t hesitate to contact the office or Auctioneers for more info or entries.

Top Prices:
Texel Hoggs with Singles: £320.00 R Allinson & Son
Mule Hoggs with Singles: £290.00 R Falshaw
Texel Ewes with Singles: £325.00 W Gardener
Texel Ewes with Twins: £300.00 H Luffman
Mule Ewes with Single: £270.00 Messers Hodgson
Mule Ewes with Twins: £345.00 JM and NJ Strickland
Beltex Ewes with Single: £285.00 G Applebly
Cheviot Ewes with Single: £220.00 Kendal College
Suffolk Ewes with Single: £210.00 G Appleby

PRIME LAMBS & HOGGS

Prime sheep see a sharper trade
Both a bigger entry and a bigger appetite saw that spring lambs hit the ground running today at J36. Texels sold to 422.5ppk and £178. D & D W Prickett, Milnthorpe sold a 40kg lamb to total at £169, while D & K Swarbrick, Out Rawcliffe sold to a top price of £178 for a 46kg lamb.
Hoggs were also a better trade on the week, despite the wide variety on show. All types from 25kg Herdwicks to 70kg Charollais enjoyed solid bidding activity. AT Burrow & Son, Hornby stole the show with good Beltex and Texel hoggs topping at 373.3ppk, this was for a pen of three. The same home had three more at 370ppk, with the heavier end of sheep from this good farming reaching the 360ppk mark. Hoggs topped pound per head at £180 for a pair of Texels from A G Butler, Hambleton. That same good home also had a single Charollais at £179. An overall average of 295ppk was achieved for hoggs today, with buyers still eager for the fit in specification sheep in particular.
Next week sale starts at the usual time of 1pm starting with the lambs which have been highly sought after today, again the lighter end being the best to sell. Contact Joel McGarva on 07920009097 for further information.

CAST EWES

Cull sheep maintained prices of recent sales with farmers off loading all passengers, with this warm weather and shortage of grass. All ewes sold today averaged £129.96, with over half the entry being pure hill ewes. Best continentals sold to £312 for Texels, with others £225 to £275, mediums £180 to £210 and smaller meated ewes £140 to £165. Mules sold to £190 for North Country Mules and £188 for Cheviot Mules, other heavier end were £170 to £185, mediums £140 to £160, with the smaller end £130 to £145 and leaner feeding type ewes £110 to £125.
Pure hill ewes saw Cheviots sell to £180, Gritstones £152, Rough Fell £146, SBF £142, Lonk £134, Herdwicks £126 and Swaledale £120. Medium Hill ewes were £100 to £110, with smaller end £70 to £85.
Cull rams sold to £245 for Texels with others £185-£220, hill rams to £146.

PIGS

Prime pigs sold to £205 for a trio of gilts from PE&R Woof, Kendal with others to £200 from the same home. Boars sold to £150 from I&RA Watson, Bishop Auckland. Stores sold to £128 from Messrs Crichley, Presrton with weaners to £800 from W Stamper, Chipping.

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BREEDING SHEEP

HOGGS AND LAMBS

TEXEL: £320.00 Windygate, £265.00 Windygate.

SHEARLING AND LAMB: MULE: £290.00 Shuttleworth Hall, £290.00 Shuttleworth Hall. TEXEL: £70.00 Windygate, £200.00 Windygate.

EWES AND LAMB:

MULE: £345.00 The Borrans, £330.00 High Borrans Farm, £300.00, Kendal College, £285.00 The Borrans, £285.00 Kendal College, £285.00 Cragg House Farm. TEXEL: £325.00 Kell Springs, £285.00 Gills Wood, £280.00 Gills Wood, £275.00 Tebay Ghyll, £270.00 Tebay Ghyll, £260.00 Low Dubbs Farm. BLUE TEXEL: £220.00 High Woodend. Cheviot: £220.00 Kendal College. SUFFOLK: £210.00Gills Wood. CONTINENTIAL: £200.00 Lileyaks, £118.00 Lileyaks, £105.00 Lileyaks. HERDWICK: £165.00 Farleton House.

SPRING LAMBS

TEXEL: £178.00 Bensons Farm, £174.00 Ackenthwaite Farm, £171.00 Howriggs, £170.00 Preston Patrick Hall, £169.00 Farleton House, £169.00 Ackenthwaite Farm. DORSET: £163.00 High Biggarsbank, £162.00 Hallbeck, £156.00 Hallbeck, £152.00 Hallbeck, £147.00 High Biggarsbank, £145.00 High Biggarsbank. CHAROLAIS £153.00 Redbank Farm, £141.00 Redbank Farm. CONTINENTIAL: £151.00 Rowe End Farm, £151.00 Rowe End Farm, £148.00 Rowe End Farm, £146.00 Rowe End Farm, £146.00 Rowe End Farm, £94.00 Greenlands Farm.

HOGGS

TEXEL: £180.00 Park Farm Barn, £165.00 High Snab, £161.00 Park Farm Barn, £160.00 New Hall, £159.00 Nook Farm, £157.00 Dalton Old Hall. CHAROLAIS: £179.00 Park Farm Barn, £172.00 Park Farm Barn, £161.00 High Snab, £159.00 Park Farm Barn, £145.00 Oak Avenue. BELTEX: £168.00 High Snab, £164.00 High Snab, £160.00 High Snab, £159.00 High Snab, £159.00 High Snab. MULE: £155.00 Park Farm Barn, £136.00 Park Farm Barn, £134.00 New Hall, £127.00 Tongue House Farm, £122.00 New Hall, £119.00 High Swinklebank. CONTINENTIAL: £151.00 Keepers Cottage, £150.00 New Hall, £142.00 New Hall, £140.00 New Hall, £138.00 Oak Avenue, £123.00 Croglin Hurst Farm. HERDWICK: £150.00 Lakeland Farm Visitor Centre, £148.00 Lakeland Farm Visitor Centre, £108.00 Tongue House Farm, £106.00 Tongue House Farm, £90.00 Tongue House Farm, £74.00 Tongue House Farm. SUFFOLK: £148.00 Maddison Avenue, £141.00 Maddison Avenue, £140.00 Maddison Avenue, £130.00 Calverts Farm. ZWARTABLE: £135.00. ROUGH FELL: £134.00 High Swinklebank, £130.00 High Swinklebank, £120.00 Boundary Beck, £115.00 High Swinklebank, £93.00 High Swinklebank. CHEVIOT: £131.00 New Hall, £130.00 Keepers Cottage. SWALEDALE: £120.00 Holme House Lane, £92.00 Tongue House Farm, £75.00 Guest Ford, £58.00 Croglin Hurst Farm. LEICESTER: £116.00 Greaves Farm. JACOB: £84.00 Croglin Hurst Farm.

EWES

TEXEL: £266.00 Greaves Farm, £230.00 Greaves Farm, £218.00 Bouthwaite Farm, £215.00 Rowe End Farm, £214.00 Crab Tree Farm, £205.00 Crab Tree Farm. LEICESTER: £245.00 Low Newton Farm, £160.00 Greaves Farm. DORSET: £208.00 Hallbeck, £196.00 High Biggarsbank, £178.00 High Biggarsbank. CONTINENTIAL: £208.00 Stephens Way, £196.00 Holmelands, £192.00 Preston Patreick Hall, £190.00 Stephens Way, £188.00 Preston Patrick Hall, £178.00 Bensons Farm. CHAROLLAIS: £204.00 Bensons Farm, £190.00 Low Audlands, £190.00 Holmes Valley View. MULE: £190.00 Rowe End Farm, £180.00 Bensons Farm, £170.00 Rowe End Farm, £170.00 Kendal College, £164.00 Crabtree Farm, £160.00 Bradlow Farm. CHEVIOTXMULE: £188.00 Kendal College. MASHAM: £186.00 Low Audlands, £168.00 Marsh Grange Farm, £144.00 Steps Farm, £138.00 Grate Farm, £130.00 Grate Farm, £114.00 Grate Farm. SUFFOLK: £180.00 Nibthwaite Grange Farm, £176.00 Stephens Way, £175.00 Holmelands. CHEVIOT: £180.00 Audlands Park, £110.00 Croglin Hurst Farm, £77.00 Nibthwaite Grange Farm. BELTEX: £174.00 Bensons Farm. GRITSTONE: £152.00 Yew Tree Close. ROUGH FELL: £146.00 Marsh Grange Farm, £128.00Stribers Farm, £122.00 Higher Salter, £108.00 Stribers Farm, £100.00 Steps Farm, £94.00 Yew Tree Close. SCOTCH BLACKFACE: £142.00 Audlands Park, £102.00 Audlands Park. RYELANDS: £140.00 Nibthwaite Grange Farm, £138.00 Nibthwaite Grange Farm. HORNED: £134.00 Higher Salter, £124.00 Croglin Hurst Farm, £118.00 Higher Salter, £110.00 Higher Salter, £84.00 Croglin Hurst Farm. HERDWICK: £126.00 Valley View, £90.00 Croglin Hurst Farm, £88.00 Valley View, £72.00 Broadhead, £68.00 Cragg House Farm. SWALEDALE: £120.00 The Glen, £118.00 Holme House Farm, £114.00 Valley View, £90.00 Low Dubbs Farm, £88.00 Town End, £82.00 Stribers Farm. DALESBRED: £80.00 Holme House Farm.
CAST RAM
TEXEL: £245.00 Greaves Farm, £230.00 Sproat Ghyll, £222.00 Sproat Ghyll, £195.00 Sproat Ghyll, £185.00 Grange Farm, £165.00 Low Newton Farm. TEESWATER: £172.00 Holme House Farm, £158.00 Holme House Farm, £155.00 Steps Farm. LEICESTER: £170.00 Nibthwiate Grange Farm, £125.00 Town End. CONTINENTIAL: £158.00 Preston Patrick Hall. SWALEDALE: £146.00 Holme House Farm, £114.00 Higher Salter, £106.00 Holme House Farm. HORNED: £74.00 Nibthwaite Grange Farm.

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J36 Crooklands Livestock Auction: J36 Weekly Sale of Sheep with Lambs at Foot, Spring Lambs, Prime Hoggs & Cast Ewes, Tuesday 13th May 2025.

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