The Lleyn Sheep Society Sale saw plenty activity at the weekend, with the highest entry seen in years at Stirling.
Topping the trade were gimmers from D Steen, Moffat which sold to £325 a head to J and J Dick, Falkirk.
The second prize winning pen of five gimmers came from JK Goldie and sold for £320 to Blackford Farms Ltd, Dunblane with the annual consignment from R Johnston and Sons selling 50 females at £315 a head to Allison and Sons, Biggar.
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The first prize pen of lambs from Farmstock Genetics, Selkirk reached a new record price at the sale, selling for £280 a head to fellow breeders CJ and JS Robertson, Stonehaven. No pens of lambs were sold under £190 and the overall average levelling at £207.
Farmstock genetics were in the prizes at the pre-sale show winning the shearling ram class when judge James Traquair, Tain tapped out Whitlaw Oakley sired by Mullamore Jake and out of a home-bred wewe which went onto sell for 4800gns to W and N Lawrence, Aberdeen.
Next M and R Cursiter Ltd, Orkney sold a Lagas bred Ram sired by a Lluest ram and out of a home-bred ewe, selling for 1800gns to JR Traquair. T and B Fort sold their third prize winning ram Brightonhouse Ollie again sired by Lluest ram and sold for 1500gns to Floors Farming, Kelso.
Averages: Rams £930; Shearling ewes £262; Ewe lambs £207.
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