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J36 Crooklands Livestock Auction: J36 Sale of Pigs, Prime Lambs & Cast Sheep, Tuesday 22nd October 2024

PIGS

95 pigs forward today, prime a sharper trade with stores slightly easier.
- Prime gilts to £180,
- Prime boars to £170,
- Cull sows to £130,
- Stores to £62
- Weaners to £40.
Vendors are reminded to book stock in well in advance, to help auctioneers canvass for buyers. The next sale of pigs is on Tuesday 12th November.

PRIME LAMBS

The market saw all pens full today, with all lambs forward today selling to an SQQ of 274p/kg. The sale peaked at 315p/kg for Texel cross from L Beck, Haversham with other well finished ¾ and pure bred lambs 295p/kg to 310p/kg. The best first cross lambs were 275p/kg to 295p/kg, with grass finished lambs 260p/kg to 275p/kg. Under finished lambs met buyers resistance. Heavy weight lambs sold to £164 from L McCarrick, Chorley with others £142 to £158. The best finished standard weights lambs were £125 to £135, with light weight lambs to £114. Hill bred lambs are coming forward in greater number, with Cheviot to £129, Mules to £128. Other pens of heavier weight Mules were £115 to £122.
Vendors are encouraged feeding their lambs, to encourage maximum returns from buyers.

CAST SHEEP

706 cull ewes forward with today’s sale perhaps being the leanest and plainest entry this season. A real shortage of the best heavy ewes, of those few today sold to a top of £220 for a Texel cross from L McCarrick, Chorley. Other heavy first cross ewes were generally £140 to £165 with mediums £118 to £135 and the leaner lighter weights £80 to £100. Several grazing orders ring side for these types. Cheviot Mules sold to £158, North Country Mules to £132, Lleyn £128, Cheviots £104, Gritstones £85, Rough Fells £77 and Swaledales £71.
Just a handful of rams today which saw mediums continental to £150 and hill rams to £110 for Herdwicks.

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PRIME LAMBS:

Texel: £164 Longfield, £161 Nether Hall Farm, £157 Arklid Farm, £155 Arklid Farm, £154 Arklid Farm, £152 Far Orrest. Suffolk: £157 Longfield Manor, £154 Yoad Pot, £150 Station Hotel Farm, £147 Birks Farm, £140 Yoad Pot, £140 Nether Hall Farm. Continental: £144 Bowers Farm, £140 Bowers Farm, £140 Birks Farm, £135 Bowers Farm, £135 Lunesdale House, £135 Nether Hall Farm. Leicester: £142 Hill Park. Cheviot: £135 Low Greg Hall, £129 Howriggs, £128 Low Gregg Hall, £121 Meadow View. Zwartble: £131 Arklid Farm, £126 Holmelands, £119 Birks Farm, £114 Birks Farm. Charollais: £130 Hazelslack Tower Farm. Mule: £128 Arklid Farm, £119 Yoad Pot, £119 Field Head, £119 Park Farm, £117 Yoad Pot. Dutch Spotted: £122 Benson Hall. Beltex: £118 Bowness Farm, £114 Greaves Farm. Herdwick: £115 Dale End, £105 Dale End. Lleyn: £115 Low Foulshaw Farm. Swaledale: £96 Overthwaite Farm.

CAST EWES:

Texel: £220 Longfield Manor, £182 Birks Farm, £162 Longfield Manor, £156 Hill Park, £150 Birks Farm, £148 Low Tarn Green. Suffolk: £172 Longfield Manor, £156, £152 High Butterbent, £138 Yoad Pot, £129 Longfield Manor, £84 Sproat Ghyll. Continental: £160 Sproat Ghyll, £144 Bowness Farm, £130 Top Thorn Farm, £130 Crabtree Farm, £115 Yak Leaf, £92 Lyndarick. Cheviot Mule: £158 High Butterbent, £135 Howgill Close, £128 Low Tarn Green. Leicester: £136, £116 Ashstead. Mule: £132 High Butterbent, £124 Helwith Bridge, £114 Nether Hall Farm, £114 Craktrees, £113 White Horse, £112 Bowers Farm. Lleyn: £128, £102, £75 High Ground. Charollais: £115 High Butterbent. Cheviot: £104 Low Tarn Green, £102 Bowers Farm, £101 Low Deepslack, £82 Howriggs, £80 Bowness Farm, £76 Craktrees. Masham: £94, £78 Grate Farm, £76 Top Thorn Farm. Gritstone: £85 Higher Core Farm. Rough Fell: £77 Low Deepslack, £70 Intake Farm, £70 Low Deepslack, £61 Sproat Ghyll. Swaledale: £70 Burnt House Farm, £65 Ashstead, £63 Eskew Beck. Scotch Blackface: £65 Bowness Farm.

CAST RAM:

Continental: £150 Lane End, £124 Helwith Bridge. Herdwick: £110, £96 High Ground. Swaledale: £90 Skelwith Fold Farm, £80 Ashstead.

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