Prime Hoggs sell to £147 and 289p/kg. Cull ewes sold to £210

Prime Hoggs

All prime hoggs sold to a market average of 228p/kg with buyers showing a preference towards well finished and heavy weight hoggs. The market topped at £147 for heavy weight Texel x hoggs from JB Airey, Kendal with other Texel x achieving £145 from TA Teasdale, Newton in Cartmel with Suffolks to £146 from N Barker, Burton in Kendal. Standard weight hoggs sold to £132 for Texel x from N Barker, Burton in Kendal with Beltex selling to £130 from CM Jennings, Selside and Suffolk x to £126 from JH Towers & Son, Tunstall. Well finished medium weight hoggs sold to £118 from TMW& H Hodgson, Nibthwaite with Beltex x also achieving £118 from W Garnett & Son, Milnthorpe. Lighter weight hoggs were a selective trade with well finished hoggs in this weight range meeting buyers requirements, selling to £101 for Beltex x from JG&PH Thompson, Selside with others at £95 from P&TL Edmondson Ltd, Kirkby in Furness. Under finished hoggs looking better suited to the store market.
The sale peaked at 289p/kg for pure Beltex hoggs from AR&BJ Thompson, Selside followed by 276p/kg achieved for a Beltex from CM Jennings, Selside with others at 274p/kg from TMW&H Hodgson, Nibthwaite and W Garnett & Son, Milnthorpe. Other well finished hoggs pure and ¾ bred hoggs regularly sold at 240-260p/kg with first cross lambs 225-235p/kg depending on weight and finish.
Very few hill bred hoggs forward today, with those forward selling to £139 for heavy weight Cheviots from Stockdale Farms, Sedbergh. Mules sold to £117 from D Black, Milnthorpe. Cheviot sold to 250p/kg for medium weights from AR&BJ Thompson, Selside with heavy weights selling to 248p/kg from Stockdale Farms, Sedbergh. Mules sold to 222p/kg from P Whitton, Burneside with others at 216p/kg from P&TL Edmondson, Kirkby in Furness.
Well finished hoggs of all classes and types continue to attract the keenest buyer attention with caution shown towards under finished and lighter weight hoggs. Vendors are encouraged to enter well finished hoggs at our weekly prime hogg sale with the fortnightly sale of store hoggs perhaps worth considering for the lighter weighted and under finished hoggs.

Cast Sheep

The ewe trade was stronger on the week at J36 with pure bred Texel ewes flying way to £210 from RA Batty, Selside with other pure ewes selling to £178 from K Little & D McClure, Cartmel. The best pure bred Continental ewes were regularly selling at the £140-£180 mark. Beltex x ewes sold to £155 from RA Batty, Selside with Suffolk x ewes selling to £134 from RA&L Hodgson, Patton. Leicesters sold to £125 from DE&J Waine, Longsleddale. All Mule ewes sold to a keen interest dropping twice at £110 from Holgate Caravans and Clarke & Johnson, Windermere. Fit medium type Mule ewes were regularly either side of the ninety-pound mark. Hill ewes saw a top of £101 for a full pen of Cheviots from J Allonby & Son, Grayrigg with Swaledales selling to a top of £83 from DE&J Waine, Longsleddale with the best end regularly selling at Seventy pound plus. Rough Fells sold to £80 from W Beck & Son, Gaisgill.

Thirty cast rams forward with Texels selling to £150 from S Thompson, Flookburgh, Black Wensleydales sold to £138 from DE&J Waine, Longsleddale. Rams showing signs of the weather were still keenly bid for and selling to their full value.