A huge ringside of buyers from as far afield as Shetland, down to Wales and as far south as Devon were forward for the Ingram family’s on-farm shearling ram sale at Logie Durno, where no fewer than 376 head averaged a colossal £1054.

The sale staged just outside Pitcaple, Inverurie, saw Harrison and Hetherington auctioneer Jimmy Little take to the box for the first time.

Prices peaked at £3200 for an unregistered home-bred three-shear Texel stock tup sired by Logie Durno Braveheart. Similarly bred to the family’s £32,000 shearling sold at Kelso in 2022, he sold to first time buyer, LE Lloyd, Hereford, who also bought another two rams.

Another unregistered Texel ram by a son of Braveheart made £2000 selling to Glenalmond Estate, Perthshire.

Texels enjoyed the best of the day’s trading with 60 averaging £1307, while 40 Suffolks cashed in at £1146. The event saw a 97% clearance.

Beltex crosses peaked at £3000 for a shearling by a home-bred Beltex cross ram purchased by Moir Livestock, Home Farm Cairness, Fraserburgh, with another similarly bred ram making £2050 to Yannick Underwood, Somerset.

Robert Morris, Blairgowrie, bought the lead priced Durno, again by a home-bred sire for £2200.

A solid trade for Suffolk shearlings peaked at £1800 for a son of a £5000 Langside ram bought at Kelso in 2022. The buyer was the Duke of Tonley, Alford, Aberdeenshire.

Just behind, on £1750, Glenalmond Estate bought a Suffolk shearling by a home-bred ram.

Jim Innes, Dunscroft, Huntly, bought the lead priced Charollais, for £1175.

Bluefaced Leicesters peaked at £1700 for a shearling purchased by Barbara Smith, Northamptonshire and Fronteras and Logies sold to £1700 and £1500, respectively.