Cull Sheep to £248
Cull sheep remained a strong trade with a top prize of £248 achieved for a BFL ram from RH & C Ayrton Ltd, Abbeystead. Ewes sold to £232 for cheviot mules from G&D Ball & Son, Little Eccleston with other stronger end ewes generally £185-£210, mediums £155-£180 with the leaner end £125-£140. Hill ewes sold to £176 for cheviots with others £145-£165. Just a handful of horned ewes being smaller mediums to £102.
Breeding Sheep to £415 & £415/life.
This popular weekly sale saw another rise in numbers forward with an ever expanding ringside of buyers in attendance for all classes and types.
Continental ewes with texel x twins sold to £415 from TR Gorst, Ellel who sold others at £410 with ewes with younger lambs generally £330-£360. Another entry of 2/4 crop mule ewes with twin texel lambs from DJ Casson & Son, Slyne sold to £405 with others at £380 twice. Cheviot mule ewes from M Allen, Carnforth sold to £390 with twin Beltex x lambs.
Ewes with singles sold to £290 for Cheviot mules with Beltex x lambs from M Allen, Carnforth with continentals £285, £280 from T Gorst, Ellel and £260 JM & NJ Strickland, Mules with single sold to £255 from DJ Casson & Son, Slyne.
Already entered for next week 50+ families.
Prime Hoggs sell to £211 & 421p/kg
A sharp rise in numbers forward today and despite reports elsewhere of a falling trade a very respectable SQQ of 325p/kg was achieved for an entry of predominantly grass finish hoggs, heavies perhaps the least desirable with many customers presenting the last of their hoggs, hoggs today ranged from 28kg-70kg.
Well finished standard weight hoggs remain the strongest trade selling to £184 (409p/kg) for Beltex x from D&K Swarbrick with others £181 (411p/kg M & YS Barker. The sale topped at £211 for heavy weight Texel x from GH Sanderson & Family. Nicely finished light weights £125-£132.
Kevin Purtill returned to the top of the board today selling Beltex x hoggs to 421p/kg with other better end 380p/kg – 410p/kg and grass finished hoggs 340-360p/kg. Heavy weights generally 290p/kg-310p/kg.