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STORE LAMBS - WEDNESDAY 5TH SEPTEMBER 2018

Fortnightly Catalogue Sale of Store Lambs & Breeding Sheep. Forward: 7041 Head, Overall av £63.44. Fortnightly sale of store lambs including sale of Continental x and Suffolk x Gimmer Lambs. Just over 7,000 lambs went under the hammer with a healthy trade throughout the day. Gimmer lambs from Angus Dean of Threshfield topped the day’s proceedings at £102 for a cracking pen of Tex x Mule gimmer lambs. In the Suffolk’s Gimmers, SL&SD Lund of Litton took the 1st prize rosette with a powerful pen of gimmer lambs selling for £92. A healthy ringside of buyers descended for the early September sale with some large runs of store lambs entering the ring in regular succession. Pick of the trade would go to Chris Dawson of Ferryhill, Co. Durham with almost 400 Tex x lambs in his run averaging well into the £60’s for quality mid term lambs. Meated Mule Wethers were good to place all day long with Paul Broughton of Fadmoor, North Yorks Moors finding his pen of 50 wethers peak the days trade £67.50, with more than 500 Mule wether lambs selling for over £60 or more today. Cheviot Wethers coming forward in more numbers and a nice trade too, topping at £63 from Messrs Westall of Briercliffe.

 

Next Sale is Wednesday 19th September – Entry of 8,000-10,000 expected.

Sale Includes Annual Show & Sale of Horned & Hill Going Wether Lambs

Entries close Monday 10th September

 

PRINCIPLE PRICES

Suffolk Stores– Av £57.82

£63 F Reeday; £61.5 T Priestley; £61.5 CA Foster; £60 T Priestley; £60 CA Foster; £60x2 CG Barraclough;  

Suffolk Gimmers – Av £68.52

£92 £82 £76 SL&SD Lund; £88 £80 £78x2 JA Throup; £80 JR Metcalfe; £78 BW Appleton; £77 AS Staveley;

Texel Gimmers – Av £80.22

£102 £95x2 £92 AL Dean; £100x2 KW Gamble; £96 JR Smith; £96 I&M Lancaster; £92 WM&E Dugdale; £92 OM Chapman;
Texel Stores – Av £59.89

£74 J Drinkall; £74 A&M Beecroft; £72(x2) EB Webster; £71 P Greenhalgh; £70 T&J Smith; £68.50 J Cheetham

Beltex Gimmers – Av £79.21

£94 I&M Lancaster; £88 £77 £70 AJ Haggas; £65 TB Moorhouse;

Beltex Stores – Av £68.20

£70 £67 TB Moorhouse; £66 AR&FT Naylor; £65.50 AJ Haggas; £65 TB Moorhouse;

Masham – Av £61.97

£69 £58 K Lister & Sons; £64 £52 JM Wilson & Son; £45 J Verity & Son; 

Mule – Av £56.75

£67.50 P Broughton; £64 JM&S Verity; £63.50 V Verity & Son; £63.50 W Harrison; £61 JC Wade; £61 J Rayner; £61 R&J Myers; £61 Ellis Bros;  

Cheviot – Av £54.79

£63 £58 Westalls; £60 £51 D Pearson; £54 D Schofield; £53 JF Norcross;

Lleyn – Av £51.93

£53 £49 West Berwick;