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Blackface lambs top at 拢70,000 twice at Dalmally

Blackface rams sold to 拢70,000 at Dalmally sale with a record turnover for the sale of 拢1.34 million.The 193 ram lambs averaged 拢2774.92, while 476 aged rams and shearlings levelled at 拢1,690.90

Angela Calvert
Head of Livestock, Shows and Sales
clock 鈥� 1 min read
拢70,000 ram lamb from the Dunlop family
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拢70,000 ram lamb from the Dunlop family

听It was ram lambs which topped the sale with two making 拢70,000. The first was a Dalchirla lamb from Ian Hunter, Crieff. By a home-bred ram sold for 拢23,000 last year and out of a ewe by a 拢24,000 Connachan, it sold to Willie Dunlop and sons, Quintin and William, Elmscleugh, Dunbar. 听

Matching the top price was the Dunlop family, Muirkirk, with a lamb by a 拢22,000 Dyke out of a ewe by 拢22,000 Auldhouseburn. The buyers were Richard Carruthers, Merkland, Thornhill, Hugh Rorison, Clonrae, and Rory Kerr, Drymen.

At 拢60,000 was a lamb from the Wights' Midlock flock, Crawford, by home-bred Emperor, which sold to an undisclosed buyer. John Murray, Crossflatt, Muirkirk, sold one by home-bred Titan at 拢50,000 to Malcolm Coubrough, Crawford, and Billy Renwick, Yarrow.

Best for Alastair McArthur's Nunnerie consignment, Elvanfoot, was 拢24,000, for a son of 拢90,000 Dalchirla, which went to Midlock.

Shearling rams peaked at 拢35,000 for 听Duncan and Ashley MacGregor, Burnhead, Kilsyth, with a son of a 拢12,000 Dyke which sold to the Nunnerie and Dalchirla flocks.

The Midlock team sold shearlings to 拢30,000 for a son of 拢75,000 Dyke, which went to the Bennies' Merkins flock, Gartocharn.

Andrew Kay and sons, Andrew and Robert, 听Gass, sold shearling rams at 拢30,000, 拢20,000 and 拢17,000. The 拢30,000 seller, by a 拢48,000 Midlock, went to the Elmscleugh flock, while the one at 拢20,000, by the same sire, went to Neil Manning, Morpeth, and a son of 拢26,000 Gass, sold at 拢17,000 to Ewen Macmillan, Lurg, Fintry.

听Auctioneers: United Auctions.

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