BREEDING SHEEP
The sale commenced with all classes of breeding sheep, which saw aged Texel rams sell to £300. Mule gimmer lambs sold to £124, £117 and £108. Hill bred sheep saw three crop Herdwick ewes sell to £104, with broken mouth Herdwicks selling to £68 and others at £58. Herdwick gimmers lambs sold to £64, Welsh Badger Face Mountains to £64 and Swaledale to £62.
We are still offering a farm to farm service for breeding sheep, please contact our auctioneers regarding you sales requirements.
STORE LAMBS
North West Auctions sale of store lambs saw 4218 lambs sell to an average of £101.73.
Trade was good from start to finish with the sale peaking at £141 for a pen of Beltex from JE Wightman, Lupton. Others sold to £140 from AE Atkinson, Kendal and a pen of twenty one to £137 from W&J Penny, Kirkby in Furness. A pen of nine Cheviots sold to £135 from RW&SA Nicholson, Lupton with Suffolks to the same price from DH Hogg, Appleby. No less than fifteen Hampshire’s sold to £130.50 from Colby Farms, Appleby with Romneys to £122 from this home. Rough Fells reached highs of £125 from A O’Neil, Sedbergh and Mules to £117 from B Wilson & Sons, Selside. Swaledale sold to £108 from JR Robinson, Nook and Herdwicks to £89 from S Procter, Selside.
All short-term Continental lambs easily sold the top side of £115, with mediums £100 to £110 and only long term less. Mules seeing a big increase on the fortnight, with the strongest of these £100 plus. Horned and hill lambs possibly seeing the biggest lift, being up in the region of £22.25 on the fortnight.
Winning the awards this week and receiving a café Ambio voucher for the highest priced pen of twenty five or more lambs were:
Lowland: 26 Texels at £133 from GR Wilson, Natland.
Mule / Masham: 27 Mules at £117 from B Wilson & Sons, Selside.
Hill Bred: 35 Cheviots at £112 from RW&SA Nicholson, Lupton.