Holsteins sell to 3500gns

BUYERS from 16 different counties ensured a good day’s trading at the Border and Lakeland pedigree club sale of dairy cattle at Carlisle, where the champion sold for the top price of 3500gns, and a further 11 made £2000 or more.
Securing the top award and price was Sarah Liddle’s Heatherleigh Fever Ashlyn from Rose Cottage, Little Fencote, Northallerton. Sired by Crackholm Fever and bred from a VG87 dam which sold for 3100gns at the Black and White Sale in 2012, she sold to JJ Crosier, Whinhill House, Newsholme, Clitheroe.
Mr Crosier also forked out 2250gns for the next best, Stowbeck Meridian Seaspray, from Skirwith Hall Farms, Penrith. By Sully Hart Meridian, she is bred from a high lifetime yielding female line.
David Brewster of the Boclair herd, Glasgow, saw his reserve champion, Boclair Shamrock Gypsy, sell for 2200gns. This first prize senior heifer is bred from three Excellent-classified dams with lactations of more than 13,000kg, and went home with Willie Brewster, Wester Borland, Stirling.
Just behind, on 2100gns was Ernespie Cream 28, a Bertaiola Mincio calved heifer from Castle Douglas producer, J McMiken, Ernespie. Bred from a home-bred VG86 dam and giving 29kg per day, she was knocked down to JB and SM Mounsey, Ashfield, Laversdale, Irthington, Carlisle.
Leading the cow trade at 2100gns was Jane Steel’s Lomond Gillespy Ashlyn ET, a fresh second calver from Kepculloch, Balfron. Sired by De-Su Gillespy and bred from an Ex94 Allen dam, she was knocked down to young breeder, James Taylor, High Whinnow, Carlisle.    
The Reid family’s reduction sale from Clauchlands Farm, Isle of Arran, saw two heifers reach 2100gns apiece. First was Clauchlands Breeze 76, a daughter of De-Su AltaMelhor, bred from two VG dams. Buyers were R Byers and Son, Woodslee Farm, Canonbie.
Matching the 2100gns sale was Clauchlands Trisha 26, by Ter Beek AltaGhost and bred from an Excellent dam producing more than 13,000kg. She sold to R and M Scott, Shaklehill, Mossblown, Ayr.
The family also received 1800gns for a VG88 fifth lactation cow, also purchased by R and M Scott. She is by Schilldale Outbound and bred from an Ex94 Igniter dam.