At the annual sale of Christmas poultry at St Boswells saw trade peak at £68 per head for a turkey from Stoneypath, and a fantastic show of birds was met by a ringside full of festive and cheery buyers.

LEADINGprices:

Per head – Turkey – £68 (x2), £66, £64 (x2), £62 (x3), £60 (x3) Stoneypath; £60 Haswellsykes (x2); £58 Fenham Le Moor, Stoneypath; £57, £56 (x2) Stoneypath. Chicken – £46, £42 (x2), £40, £39, £38 (3) Fenham Le Moor, Goose – £42, £40 Crawcraigs.

Per kg – Turkey – 444p Haswellsykes; 314.3p Crawcraigs; 300p Haswellsykes (x3), Fenham Le Moor; 294.1p Stoneypath; 290p Fenham Le Moor; 288.9p Crawcraigs; 282.4p Stoneypath (x 6); Crawcraigs, Fenham Le Moor. Chicken – 418.2p, 381.8p (x2), 380p, 292p (x4). Goose – 381.8p, 333.3p, 327.3p Crawcraigs.

Auctioneers: Harrison and Hetherington.