Yearling ewes to 拢500 at Bishops Castle
The sale of 3,500 breeding sheep at Bishops Castle included a flock dispersal of 60 Charolais and Texel yearling ewes from J.S. and B.M. Vance and Son, Minsterley, which averaged 拢389/head topping at 拢500/head. Overall the 2,322 yearling ewes averaged 拢237.50.
The winning of pen of Welsh Mules from Phillip Pugh, of N.L. Pugh and Co, Much Wenlock, went on to sell for 拢280/head.
The Derek Pugh Challenge Cup for the highest priced pen of 10 or more commercial-bred ewes was also won by Messrs Pugh with a pen of 20 Texel ewes which sold for 拢272/head.
The 180 aged ewes averaged 拢160 and peaked at 拢202 for G. and S.J. Jones, Bishops Castle, with 1,000 ewe lambs averaging 拢160 and peaking at 拢186 for G.H. Bayliss and Son, Kerry.
The 12 breeding rams averaged 拢475 topping at 拢650 for a Texel shearling from N. and K. Unwin, Carno.
Auctioneers: Halls.
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Simmental heifer sells for 8,000gns
Simmental females sold to 8,000gns at the joint production sale for the Ballinalare Farm herd from Joe and Alan Wilson, Newry, Co Down, and the Ranfurly herd of David and Jonny Hazelton, Dungannon, Co Tyrone, at Rathfriland 草榴社区 Co-op.
The sale topper was the show heifer Ranfurly Weikel 52 from Messrs Hazelton. This 15-month-old heifer is by the Auchorachan ACDC son, Ranfurly Limelight out of Ranfurly Weikel. 听It was junior champion at the NI Four Breeds Calf Show 2023; reserve junior champion at Balmoral in 2024 and a first prize winner at the National Show, Antrim, and sold to John Warnock's Templefyn herd, Carrowdore, Co Down.
Two heifers sold for 6,000gns. First was the January 2022-born in-calf heifer Ranfurly Weikel 47 by Samark Superman. It sold, in-calf to Clonagh Tiger Gallant to David Smith and Rachael Reid for the Bowhill herd, Ayrshire.
Also selling at 6,000gns was the November 2022-born Ranfurly Stella 15听a Woodhall Ferrari daughter, which went to John Byrne, Banbridge.
Leading Joe Wilson's Ballinalare Farm line-up at 4,900gns was January 2023-born Ballinalare Farm Polly by Curaheen Wakeman. Buyers were P. and R. Murtagh, Newry.
听Averages 鈥撎齊anfurly 鈥撎�2 in-calf heifers, 拢4,515; 12 maiden heifers, 拢4,646;听Ballinalare Farm 鈥撎�2 heifers with calf at foot, 拢3,412; 19 in-calf and maiden heifers, 拢2,990.
听Auctioneers: Rathfriland 草榴社区 Co-op.
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Mule gimmer lambs to 拢500/head at Kirkby Stephen
More than 8,000 North of England Mule gimmer lambs went under the hammer at Kirkby Stephen averaging 拢154.38, up 拢33.66 on the year, with a 100% clearance and no lambs selling under 拢100.
The sale topped at 拢500 for the overall champion pen of 10 lambs from H.R. Hayton and Son, Great Asby, which were bought by Messrs Brown, Leyburn.
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The first prize winners in the small breeders class from from Messrs Burrow and Rutter Armstrong, Langwathby, were also reserve champions and went on to sell for 拢260 to Messrs Fox, Clitheroe. They also had the leading average of 拢216.36 for 22 lambs.
The second prize in the open class went to K.A. Brown and Sons, Great Asby, whose lambs sold for 拢380/head to James Robinson, Carnforth.
Also making 拢380/head was the fourth placed pen of 10 lambs from W.M. Hutchinson and Sons, Redgate, which were bought by Messrs Richardson, Dufton.
Messrs Brown sold a a pen of 22 at 拢240/head, a pen of 20 at 拢198 and a pen of 30 at 拢195.
Kilnstown Farms, Roweltown, sold their top pen at 拢320/head, a pen of 20 at 拢210/head and averaged 拢166/head for 504 lambs. Messrs Buckle, Bleathgill, also sold a pen of 20 at 拢210.
The trade of the day was for the running lambs with most of these selling between 拢130-拢150.
听Auctioneers: Harrison and Hetherington.
Working Genes sale tops at 拢14,000
There was a complete clearance at the Working Genes online production sale on behalf of the McGowan family, Incheoch, Perthshire.
The sale peaked at 拢14,000 for the Aberdeen-Angus bull, Inchisla Jordon Eric, a Milah Murrah Nugget son, which sold to James Biggar, Chapelton.
The 14 Simmental bulls topped at 拢10,200 for the dark red, homozygous polled Incheoch Patrick, which went to James Hamilton, Aikengall.
Luings sold to 拢7,200 for the roan polled bull, Dirnanean Chief, which was knocked down to John Scott, Fearn. Overall, the 19 bulls averaged 拢6,737.
Rams topped at 拢7,350 for a Texel son of Easton Dunsyre, which had one of the highest performance figures in the breed. The buyer was Ian Murray, Glenway.
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Three more rams by the same sire broke the 拢3,000 barrier, going to Alister Shaw, West Lethans and two to Jim Logan, Romavale.听 The 57 Texels averaged 拢1,845, up 拢629 on the year.
The 55 Lleyn rams averaged 拢1,086 up 拢207 on 2023 topping at 拢2,750 for the highest index ram, Incheoch Monarch, which sold to Christiane Geiger, Germany.
Clun Forest top at 1,500gns
The 99th sale of Clun Forest sheep at Ludlow topped at 1,500gns for Sarnesfield Gold-Dust, a Aber-Rheon Alun son from L.E. Lloyd and Son, Hereford, which sold to M. Eckley for the Court-Llacca flock, Powys.
Next at 950gns was Nipna George, a shearling ram from Anna Pennell, North Yorkshire, which was knocked down to J. D. Williams and Son, Shipton.
The Honddu flock of I. T. Davies and Son, Brecon, took the red rosette in the three male classes with the male championship going to their shearling ram, Windsor Gruffalo, bred by A Phillips, Pembrokeshire, which was bought privately as a lamb with several daughters retained by the flock.
It sold for 820gns to Messrs Vernon, Staffordshire.
The reserve male champion was the second placed shearling ram, Aber-Rhaeon Gethin, from Messrs Eckley, and bred by M. Davies, which sold for 300gns to D. Duggan, Leominster.
The Nipna flock also had the champion single female, a Nipna Earl-sired shearling ewe which sold for 460gns to new breeder, A. Collier, Lancashire.
The highest female price went to a pen-mate, a daughter of the 2018 Royal Welsh Show inter-breed supreme ewe, which sold for 560gns to F. Hendrie, Talgarth.
The champion pen of females was from the Furlongs flock of G.R. Roberts and Son, Ludlow, which sold for 190gns/head with the highest priced pen of five, two-year-old ewes from the same flock selling at 220gns/head to G. Williams, Gwynedd.
The winning pairs of shearling ewes from S. Thackery, Ludlow, sold for 300gns/head to Messrs Collier.
Averages - shearling ewes (singles), 拢441; shearling and aged ewes (pens), 拢190.24; ewe lambs (singles), 拢249.37; ewe lambs (pens), 拢138.75; Clun Mules, 拢210; aged rams, 拢651; shearling rams, 拢540.75; ram lambs, 拢280.87.
Auctioneers听: McCartneys.
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Scotch Mule ewe lambs sell to 拢195
The sale of Scotch Mule lambs at Dumfries topped at 拢195/head for a pen from Caruthers Farming, Merkland.
The judge, David Morgan, Herefordshire, awarded the championship to a pen from T. and T. Anderson, Dornal, which went on to sell for 拢185/head.
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The reserve champion pen was from D. Henderson, Sweetshawhead, and made 拢182/head.
Overall lambs averaged 拢160.10, up 拢43.50 on the year.
Blackface ewe lambs were a selective trade selling to 拢115 for Kirkland Farming, Kirkland.
Scotch Mule breeding ewes sold to 拢188 for Grange Partnership, Barnmuir, with two-/three-crop ewes.
Store lambs topped at 拢117 for Texels from J.D.M. Thomson, Pilmuir.
Auctioneers: C. and D. Auctions.
New Hill Radnor record set
A new female record of 780gns was set at the Hill Radnor Flock Book Society show and sale at Talybont-on-Usk for the reserve champion. This was a yearling ewe from D.C.L. and C.J. Williams' Trawscoed flock, Brecon, which sold to the Dillon family, for the Gwarallt flock, Carmarthenshire.
The female champions, a pair of yearling ewes from V. Ellingworth's Rohan flock, Carmarthen, sold for 310gns/head to the Catteshall flock, Surrey. Yearling ewes averaged 拢248.85.
Two-year-old ewes topped at 300gns and averaged 拢233, while three-year-olds topped at 180gns and averaged 拢154.35.
Older ewes averaged 拢157, while broken mouth averaged 拢94.50. A three-year-old ewe with a ewe lamb made 320gns.
Top price male at 1,260gns went to a shearling ram from one of the judges, Owain Jenkins, of the Derri flock, Pembroke. It sold to Seth Mather's Holbourne flock, Lancashire.
Next, at 1,080gns, was a yearling ram from the Castelldu flock of D.C. Jones, Brecon, which went to the Amgueddfa flock at the National Museum of Wales, St Davids.
The champion ram, a yearling also from Messrs Jones sold for 790gns and the reserve, a ram lamb from the Trawscoed flock sold for 440gns.
Older rams topped at 600gns and averaged 拢445.20, yearling rams averaged 拢530, ram lambs topped at 440gns and averaged 拢173.25.
Auctioneers: Clee, Tompkinson and Francis.
Mule gimmer lambs to 拢335 at J36
At the sale of North of England Mule gimmer lambs at J36 the class for the 鈥榮tars in their eyes' individual gimmer lambs was won by T.A. and J.A. Dixon, Yoad Pot, whose lamb sold for the top price of 拢335.
Overall lambs averaged 拢151.14 up 拢34.82 on the year. The main sale topped at 拢290/head for R. Lawrence, Grange-over-Sands, followed by Messrs Hodgson, Rydal, at 拢275.
Stronger lambs were 拢160 to 拢180, runners nicely 拢140 to 拢155, with only smaller and younger lambs 拢125 to 拢135.
Auctioneers: North West Auctions.
Breeding sheep in demand at Ruswarp
At the Castleton Crackers evening sale of rams and females at Ruswarp both male and female championships went to Deborah Whitcher, Whenby, with the overall supreme going to her Charollais shearling ram, which went on to sell to J.L. Smith, Hawksker, for 拢700.
Her champion female, a Charollais gimmer, made 拢360 to the judge, Jim Stenton, Thornton Dale, with Charollais ram lambs from the same home selling to 拢400.
Ian Ford, Glaisdale, took reserve champion male with his Texel cross Charollais shearling ram which made 拢800.
James Floyd, Ugthorpe, had the winning non-MV ram lamb with a Texel which sold for 拢500. He also sold Texel shearlings to 拢620.
In the MV section the red rosette went to James Wilkinson, Sneaton, with a Suffolk ram lamb which made 拢480 with his Suffolk shearlings selling to 拢500 twice.
M.W. Cook and Son, Kildale, sold a Meatlinc cross Beltex shearling ram for 拢680. 听
Brendan Drew, Glaisdale, took reserve female champion with a Cheviot gimmer shearling which made the top price female price of 拢500. It sold to young local breeder Charlie Parker, Grosmont, who also bought a gimmer lamb from the same vendor for 拢300.
听Auctioneers: Richardson and Smith.
Rearing calves to 拢750 in Leyburn
The late summer rearing calf show at Leyburn for the Peter Metcalfe Memorial Trophy saw Judy Metcalfe, family and friends there to present the trophy to the champion calf, a British Blue bull from David and John Smith, of M. and D. Smith, Keighley. It went on to sell to the judge, Katie Grainger, Bedale, for 拢750.
Reserve champion went to a Charolais heifer from Stephen Sowray, Bishop Thornton, which made 拢680 to Michael Radford, Bedale.
The second placed British Blue bull consigned by Stuart Whitehead, West Burton, made 拢590.
David and John Smith took all three prizes in the Blue heifer class and made 拢455 and 拢450 twice.
Limousin and Charolais bulls from Stephen Sowray took first and second prizes and made 拢615 and 拢640, with John Pratt, Bainbridge, in third with a British Blonde which made 拢565.
The native bull class saw Aberdeen-Angus in first and second place, with both making 拢595 for Alwyn, Mark and James Spence, Aysgarth, and Mr Sowray respectively. In third was Messrs Smith with a Hereford at 拢495. They also had first prize heifer of the same breed which made 拢410.
听Auctioneers: Leyburn Auction Mart.
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