03 September 2024

J36 Crooklands Livestock Auction: J36 Weekly Sale of Prime Lambs & Cast Sheep, Tuesday 3rd September 2024

PRIME LAMBS

1650 lambs were forward, a run of well bred fed lambs from PJ&ES Rogerson, Great Asby saw Texels to £177 with other pens from the same home to £164. Heavy Suffolk sold to £157 from R&J Dodgson, Natland. Heavy bred lambs full of meat (48kg plus) were regularly selling £138 to £142. The best bred lambs saw pens of Beltex to 335p/kg from Wishingwell Genetics, Appleby with other pens to 333p/kg from G Beresford & Son, Kirkby in Furness. The best lambs full of meat were regularly away 315p/kg to 325p/kg, with first cross lambs full of meat / fed selling at 295p/kg to 300p/kg. Leaner lambs / grass fed were harder to place, with these around 270p/kg. More hill bred lambs were forward, with these keenly bid for. A pen of twenty Mules sold to £132.50 from R Capstick & Son, Ingleton with other pens of Mule to £130.50 from BD Gill, Ingleton. Mule lambs full of meat were regularly 265p/kg to 270p/kg.
Please note: Buyer are seeking prime lambs full of meat, with fed lambs seeing the benefits.

CAST SHEEP

More ewes forward as seen nationally, as farmers look to replace old with new. Today’s sale topped at £172 for the stronger end Texel cross ewes with others £150 to £165, medium pure and cross bred ewes £125 to £140 with lighter and leaner attracting keen interest from feeder orders, anywhere from £85 to £110. Mules sold to £141 with other stronger end £130 to £140, best mediums £112 to £125 with lighter and leaner sorts £70 to £90. Pure hill ewes saw Lleyn sell to £134, Cheviots £106, Swaldedale £104, Herdwicks £76 and SBF £70, with over half the sale being lean hard worked pure hill ewes ranging from £30 to £50, with the very smallest at realisation.
Several rams forward sold to £182 for Texels.

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PRIME LAMBS:

Continental: £177 £164 £141 Mason Gill, £144 £133 Bowers Farm. Suffolk: £157 £133 Cracalt Farm, £135 Yarlsber, £135 Gaskell House, £128.50 Burnt House Farm. Texel: £156 Low Hall Farm, £154 little Daub Hall, £153 Mason Gill, £151 £150 Greaves Farm, £149 Low Bendrigg Farm. Beltex: £145 £140 £126 Hylton Holme, £135 Brown Brook, £130 £126 Angerton Hall Farm. Mule: £132.50 Fell End Farm, £130.50 Yarlsber, £127 Low Hall Farm, £118.50 Burnhead Farm, £118.50 Fellside Farm, £117 Red Scar Farm. Charolais: £119 Ridding Side Farm. Cheviot: £113 Poppy Farm. Hampshire: £108 Hawkrigg Farm. Rough Fell: £95 Steps Farm. Masham: £80 Steps Farm.

CAST EWES:

Texel: £172 Angerton Hall Farm, £172 Barn Croft, £159 Middlebarrow Plain, £154 Highfield, £151 Mason Gill, £150 Lower Highfield. Continental: £167 Low Stangerthwaite, £155 Kate Farm, £140 Angerton Hall Farm, £124, £108 Barn Croft, £99 Dawson Fold. Beltex: £164 (x2) St Annes Farm, £116, £96 Barn Croft, £85 St Annes Farm. Suffolk: £144 Low Stangerthwaite, £120 Hawkrigg Farm. Mule: £141 Lower Highfield Farm, £128 Low Woodhouse, £126 Hawkrigg Farm, £123 Capplerigg Farm, £118 Nook Farm, £118 Lower Highfield. Cheviot Mule: £134 Cinder Barrow. Lleyn: £134, £122, £121, £90 (x2) Low Foulshaw Farm. Charollais: £128 Barncroft, £118 Barn Croft, £108 Preston Patrick Hall, £92 Barncroft, £80 Ridding Side Farm. Cheviot: £106 High Ground, £98 Bowness Farm, £97 (x2) High Ground, £78 Thorn Cottage, £76 Tock How Farm. Swaledale: £104 High Ground, £70 Wilcocks Farm, £70 Well Foot. Zwartble: £96 Low Foulshaw Farm. Dutch Spotted: £92 Barncroft. Leicester: £88 Boundary Beck. Rough Fell: £84 Low Borrowbridge, £68 Woodside. Herdwick: £78, £76 Hawkrigg Farm. Scotch Blackface: £70 Bowness Farm.

CAST RAM:

Texel: £182 Old School, £80 Braida Garth, £74 Kate Farm, £70 Well Foot. Dutch Spotted: £70 Bank Ground. Herdwick: £66 High Ground.

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J36 Crooklands Livestock Auction: J36 Weekly Sale of Prime Lambs & Cast Sheep, Tuesday 3rd September 2024

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