A GOOD consignment of milky cattle met a similar trade on the month at Harrison and Hetherington's Borderway Monthly Dairy Day, where heifers from Turriff-based producers SG Mair and Sons, Kinnermit, topped at £1820.
Selling for that price to NC Bowdler and Sons, Heath Farm, Amaston, Shrewsbury, was Deveronside Mincio Buttercup, a heifer bred from an 11,800kg dam that calved her first a month ago and was yielding 37kg.
Females from the Bell family, High Dyke, Penrith, reached £1780 for a heifer giving £1780 and £1680 for a fourth calver giving 50kg, both of which also head to Heath Farm.
Milking Dairy Shorthorns peaked at £1620 twice, first for a Strickley Goldpanner-sired heifer from the Dotchin family, Cumcatch, Brampton, which was knocked down to CD and WA Bland and Son, The Flatt, How Mill, Brampton.
Matching that was a second calver giving 45kg from GG Baynes and Son's Marleycote herd from Hexham. This also one sold to Heath Farm, as well as the dearest heifer on offer from Glasgow-based Claylands Farming. This consignment of 12, all bred from dams with great records, was led by a Larcrest Century daughter giving 36kg.
A special consignment of cross-bred Meuse Rhine Issel in-calf heifers and bulling heifers from J Reade, Isle of Mull, topped at £820 for a heifer due in October to a Luing bull and bred from a Brown Swiss dam. Final bidder was J Whitton, Cregarth, Ousby.
Bulling heifers created a lot of interest and topped at £680 for a well-grown heifer bred from a Swedish Red dam, which heads to Cowlyers, Blackdyke, Silloth, with DG and AV Crozier.
Averages: 12 Holstein cows in milk, £1255.01; 51 Holstein heifers in milk, £1327.81; six three-quarter or faulted cows and heifers, £801.11; nine Dairy Shorthorn cows/heifers in milk, £1458.33; four Holstein in-calf heifers, £1150.00; five MRI cross-bred in-calf heifers, £764.00; 22 MRI cross-bred bulling heifers, £596.36.
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