Monday 15th March 2021

LANCASTER PRIME HOGGS TOP AT £170

Breeding Sheep

Lancaster’s sale of Sheep with Lambs at foot enjoyed another strong trade. Taking the top honours this week was the consignment from Dave and Karen Swarbrick, Out Rawcliffe selling Continental ewes with Twins to £255. Aged Mule ewes with Texel twins from the same home selling to £240 and £230. Aged Suffolk ewes with Texel twins sold to £230 from TM Townley, Over Wyresdale.

Prime Hoggs

Despite many auction centres recording their trade as being slightly less, Lancaster boasted an impressive market average of 290p/kg with a SQQ of 293p/kg, with handy weights averaging just shy of £3 a kilogram. Taking top spot this week was a cracking consignment of Beltex hoggs from Graham and Andrea Jackson, Little Eccleston which sold to £170, £168, £160 twice, £159, £155 and £150 twice. Taking the top spot this week for pence per kilogram is JE Parkinson & Son, Quernmore who offered another stylish run of hoggs selling to 375p/kg and achieving £154 and £150 twice. Andrew Butler’s weekly consignment peaked at £151, with numerous pens from this home in the one forties. A run of shapely continental hoggs from T Taylor, Woodplumpton twice sold to £147. The run of Beltex and Texel hoggs from R Collinge & Son, Kirkham twice sold to £142 or 355p/kg. All Beltex hoggs forward in Lancaster averaged 149.56. Texel hoggs 38kg upwards averaged £131.57. Heavy weight Suffolk hoggs sold to £147 from George Riley, Bolton Le Sands with others to £141 from Andrew Butler. Mule hoggs sold to £134 with all Mule hoggs forward averaging £120.56. Horned hoggs sold to a top of £110.50 for 41kg Swaledales from KM & KJ Curwen, Abbeystead. Light weight hoggs in big demand with well fleshed light weights often selling in the region of 300p/kg and beyond for better types.

Cast Sheep

Lancaster once again enjoyed a sharp trade for all specifications of cast sheep as national numbers tighten and buyers purchase for the upcoming festival. Texel ewes sold to a top of £129 from R Collinge & Son, Kirkham followed by others to £122 from PM & ST Entwistle, Abbeystead. Plenty of other continental ewes selling £110 plus. Mule ewes sold to a top of £114 from James Burr, Quernmore with plenty more selling around the £110 mark. Masham ewes sold to £107 from PG Thornton, Scorton. Horned sheep to £98 for Dalesbred ewes from DM Eames, Abbeystead.