Thursday 30th August

SHOW CHAMPION SELLS TO £1200

North West Auctions J36 annual Lads Night Out show and sale of Terminal Sire Breeding Rams and ram producing females had a catalogued entry of 760. There was a buoyant trade for good conformation and powerful rams although there was a quieter ringside with many taking advantage of the catchy weather and silaging.

There was a strong line up of rams forward for the judges to cast their eyes over, who we think for their time and expertise. There was some fantastic rams out for show, with the Championship Rosette awarded to TA Blair, Poulton le Fylde, with a powerful and stylish Suffolk Shearling. A close call for the Reserve Champion, which went to the Beltex x Texel from AR & BJ Thompson, Selside, narrowly beating the Texel Shearling from JT & J Kelsall, Clapham.

With two rings in operation, Ring 2 sold MV Accredited Rams, Charollais, Individual Females and Suffolks. The Suffolks enjoyed a buoyant trade with buyers keen for rams to produce fast finishing prime lambs. Shearlings sold to £1200 for the overall show champion from TA Blair, with the same price also achieved for the pick of the pen from JH Towers & Sons, Tunstall. Other well grown Suffolk shearlings were nicely selling between £500 and £800, with all sold averaging £435.

Suffolk lambs sold to £1000 for the 1st prize lamb again from TA Blair, with strong lambs sellingfrom £280 to £400,all sold averaged £335. Several aged rams topped at £380 from G & E Beddie, Swaffham and NW Hornby, Stank and others at £250 to £320.

The Charollais rams were a more selective trade with the top price of £480 achieved for a shearling ram from IM Jaeban, Cockermouth. Charollais shearlings were often bid between £300 and £420, averaging £290. The lambs topped at £300 from J Stott Jnr, Crosscrake.

The sale of Individual Females always creates plenty of interest with this section continuing to expand within the sale. Topping the female trade at £420 was a Suffolk shearling being part of the dispersal on behalf of PJ & EA Wharton, Little Strickland who sold others to £380. Pure Texel twice sold to £280with ewes from IM Jaebanand Shearlings from DH Lucas & FA Nairey, Blackburn. Charollais shearlings sold to £220 from J Fell, Bootle who sold gimmer lambs to £180.A pedigree Zwartble ewe from E Kitching, Carnforth sold at £200. Cross bred ewes sold to a top price of £240 for a Texel x Beltex from A Williams, St Helens.

The sale of Texel rams in Ring 1 saw just short of 300 forward selling to a competitive trade for powerful, good conformation shearlings. Topping the trade was the first prize Texel from JT & J Kelsall, Clapham selling to £1180 and others from the same good home sold to £980. The second prize Texel from H Garth, Keasden sold to £950. The annual consignment of powerful Texel Sheralings from Sue Cunliffe, Field Broughton sold to £920 and £750 with others met by a lot of interest and eagerly bid for. Texel shearling rams averaged £413. There was plenty of interest for strong ram lambs which twice sold to a top of £400 from Thomas Wilson, Selside and W & A Holden, Oswaldwistle.

The Beltex and Beltex x section saw plenty of trade right through for powerful, shapely rams, with the second to last ram into the ring from SW Boow, Bootle selling to £820. The trade was topped at £950 for CS & V Whitfield of Consett, who also sold Beltex x Texel rams to £850. The first prize Beltex Shearing sold to a top of £850 from P McCune, Aspatria. Plenty of Beltex and Beltex x rams sold in excess of the £600 mark.

The next sale of breeding rams and individual females at J36 will be the ‘Boys are Back in Town’ sale at Monday 17th September with entries for the catalogue closing on Monday 3rd September.