PRIME LAMBS

A quality entry of well finished lambs were forward as requested, with an overall market average of 316p/kg. Today’s sale peaked at £192 for a heavy weight Suffolk cross lambs from EW & A Bradshaw, Stalmine. Other heavy weight well bred lambs were regularly £150 to £165 (310p/kg to 330p/kg). The best first cross lambs sold to £154 for Texel cross from KA Purtill, Wigan with other heavy weights £140 to £148, standards weights £130 to £140 and several pens of lighter weight lambs generally achieving £105 to £115. The sale topped at 388p/kg for a pen of Texel cross lambs from M Coxhead, Longridge with other well finished pure and ¾ bred lambs £130 to £150 and best first cross 315p/kg to 330p/kg.
Additional buyers were in attendance today, keen to source lambs from Lancaster Auction, vendors are encouraged to present sheep with confidence. Gates are open for weighing from 7.30am, with the sale commencing at 10.30am.

CAST SHEEP

A much planer show of cull ewes were forward today, with an overall average of £98 achieved. The sale peaked at £154 for Texel cross ewes from H Birkett & Son, Overton with other medium cross bred ewes generally £130 to £140 and lighter weighs £115 to £125. Mules sold to £110, with others £95 to £105. Pure hill ewes sold to £94 for Cheviots.
Just a handful of rams forward saw Suffolks sell to £150.

BREEDING SHEEP

The opening sale of breeding sheep saw local and travelled buyers in attendance, all keen to secure additional and replacement stock. The sale commenced with breeding rams which saw Texel cross Charolais shearlings sell to £500 from S Mason, Kirkby Stephen with others selling to £400 from J Bargh, Morecambe. Ram lambs sold to £250 for Texels from S Roberts, Clitheroe. The annual consignment of double vaccinated Mule shearlings from Paul and Sophie Casson (DJ Casson & Son, Slyne) sold to £225 twice, with a further eight pens at £218 to £220. Other Mule shearlings sold to £190 from M Bowman, Kirkby Stephen. All Mules forward averaged £215. A keen interest in proven sheep, saw MG&J Parker, Wennington sold their annual consignment of draft four crop Mules to £165 with others at £160, with three crop Mules sold to £158 from S &J France, Over Wyresdale. Texel cross ewes sold to £155 from KA Purtill, Wigan with other continental ewes generally £140 to £150.
The next sale of breeding sheep at Lancaster Auction Mart is the annual show and sale of ewes and shearlings, plus the Lancaster Lads sale of breeding rams on Wednesday 21st August. Entries for this sale close on Friday 2nd August.