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Sheep Sales

Lurg Blackie leads at 4000gns

A smaller show of in-lamb females met a great trade at a Blackface Sheep Breeders’ Association sale at Lanark, when no fewer than 12 lots sold at four figure prices to help bolster the overall average to £974 – up by more than £400 per head.

Weather affects Dingwall Cheviot entry

Dingwall and Highland Marts sold 47 registered Cheviot females at its inaugural show and sale this week.

Champion tops Lockerbie Cheviot sale

The champion park-type female from father and son team Jim and Willie Thomson, Hownam Grange, Kelso, secured the day’s lead price of £1200 at a show and sale of Cheviot females at Lockerbie, last weekend, selling to Derbyshire breeder, James Burton, Ilam Tops, Ilam, Ashbourne.

New Cheviot sale

More than 60 head of pedigree North Country Cheviot sheep will be forward for the first in-lamb female show and sale at Dingwall, on Thursday, February 25, where Andrew Morris, Oldrig Mains, Castletown, will be judging the park-type sheep while Raymond Lund, East Clough, Cumbria, will be putting the hill-type through their paces.

£2000 top for Swales at Hawes

GIMMERS TOPPED the Swaledale female sale at Hawes, securing the top three prices at £2000, £1800 and £1700 and the lead average at £739.

Top Blue sells to Scotland

Scottish Bluefaced Leicester Robert Wallace, Macherquhat, Ballantrae, was back out in force at the in-lamb female sale at Hawes, last weekend, buying the lead priced lot at £4000.

Shafthill tops BFL sale at 5000gns

AVERAGES HIT new heights at the sale of registered Bluefaced Leicester females at Carlisle, on 18-01-10, when demand for the ‘crossing type’ saw prices peak at 5000gns and the average break through the £1000 per head barrier – up almost £500 per head on the year for 10 more sold.

Bluefaced Leicester females to 5000gns

The Bluefaced Leicester sale at Carlisle enjoyed a strong trade today, topping at 5000gns for a ewe lamb, Kirkby Redgate B48, a daughter of Hewgill Y25, out of a dam by Keer W001.

Lanark in-lamb Texels to 2300gns

Trade held up well at the Scottish National sale of in-lamb Texels at Lanark, last weekend, with the champion making the day’s top price of 2300gns.

Cast ewes to £205

Cast ewes surpassed the £200 mark this week, selling to £205, for a Texel ewe from S Henderson, Weston, Deskford, at St Boswells on Monday (January 11).

Increased demand for Shetland sheep

SHETLAND SHEEP look set to reap the benefits of a surge in orders, due to the breed’s superior wool quality for spinning.

Texel female makes record 20,000gns

IN-LAMB TEXEL females sold to a new record female price of 20,000gns for the first lot in the ring at Carlisle, last week.

Beltex females to 1800gns at Lanark

A STEADY trade topped at 1800gns for the pre-sale champion, at the Scottish Beltex show and sale of females, at Lanark last weekend.

Garngour gimmer tops Select Seven sale

THE SOLID demand for Texel females continued at last weekend’s Select Seven sale at Lanark, where an almost total clearance saw trade peaking at 6000gns, for one from the Clark family’s Lesmahagow-based Garngour flock. Leading the way was the pen number one from the Clarks – Jim and Helen and sons, Alan, Andrew and David, who run 120 pedigree females in all.

Cowal Christmas Texel at 13,000gns

Christmas came early for the Campbell family – brothers Keith, Allan and Roy – who run the Cowal Texel flock at Lochgoilhead, when they sold the top priced gimmer at 13,000gns at Christmas Stars Sale at Carlisle, last week.

Kelso tops Twilight sale at 12,000gns

A massive Texel gimmer backed by some of the best bloodlines in the business and the first sold from Malcolm Reid’s Kelso flock from Stichill, Kelso, stole the show at the breed’s Twilight sale at Carlisle, last week, selling for the top price of 12,000gns.

Drumpark leads Carlisle Texel sale

The inclusion of gimmers from another eight noted flocks from through the length and breadth of the country added further attraction to the 1st Choice Texel sale at Carlisle, last weekend, which saw debut Aberdeenshire breeder, Robbie Scott, lead the way selling the top priced lot at 2400gns.

Early celebrations at Cairness sale

THE BIRTHDAY celebrations for Jimmy Douglas commenced a week early at Carlisle, when his Cairness Suffolk flock from Fraserburgh, produced the majority of top priced lots including the sale leaders at 8000gns, 7000gns, 4500gns.

Scottish livestock breeders come home in style

SCOTTISH LIVESTOCK breeders Robert and Jean Graham, came home in style from the Best of Berrichons sale at Worcester, last week, having sold the top priced lot at 1040gns.