AN outstanding offering of freshly calved cows and heifers made for a successful May edition of the Border and Lakeland Holstein Club sale at Borderway Mart, Carlisle, recently.
Trade topped at 2200gns to average almost £1600, with buyers recorded from 10 counties across the UK.
Sale leader, at 2200gns, was the day’s reserve champion, a first prize heifer in-milk from the Hunter family’s Letterkenny herd, from Shotts.
She sold for that price to Andrew Carter, Gerrard House, Wigton.
This was Letterkenny Smokin Papoose 4, sired by Misty Springs Smokin, and is the 14th generation of cows to classify Ex or VG from the Papoose/Marq I cow family.
Selling for 2100gns was Boclair Avalanche Delight, from David Brewster, Boclair, Bearsden. She is sired by Silveridge Avalanche and out of a mother by an Ex 92 Shottle. Producing 47kg per day, she was purchased by Smallthwaite Farms, Penrith.
Overall, the Brewsters sold six heifers to average £1750.
Evening Holsteins, from Thursby, Carlisle, sold six to average almost £1800 and topped at 2000gns for Evening Success Fogey. Sired by Evening Success, her third dam was an Ex 95 Outside daughter. She was purchased by R Byers and Sons, Canonbie.
The pre-sale show overall champion was Letterkenny Goldfish Judy 3, consigned by Alison Hunter, of West Tarbrax, Shotts. Fresh in her second lactation and giving 50kg, her dam is an Ex 94 Talent daughter. She made 1900gns to Robbie Scott, owner of the Nethervalley herd, in Ayrshire.
The Hodgson family, from Wormanby Holsteins, Carlisle, also sold a cow for 1900gns. Wormanby Brendal Anderson was sired by Regancrest B Brendal and bred from an Ex 93 Spirte which has just recently calved in her seventh lactation.
This young cow was purchased by A and B Bargh Wood Close Farm, Skelton.

averages:

16 cows in milk, £1545.00; 71 heifers in milk, £1596.38; 19 in-calf heifers, £1379.31; two embryos, £250.00

   
Auctioneers: Harrison and Hetherington