A fantastic day in the calf ring for the Christmas Calf show with the judging carried out by Will Gore-Browne of SIlsden Moor. The Champion Rosette ended up in the hands of Marcus Chadwick of Chadwick and Leaver of Southfield, Nr Burnley. A fantastic Simmental bred calf at just 7 weeks of age sold for £440 to the Judge.
A good show of calves throughout the day made for some heady prices, in particular British Blue x heifers which topped at £470 for a cracker from Sowray Brothers with Church Farm Enterprises seeing their calves reach £440 three times, with a section average of £355.95.
Continental bulls weren’t far behind the heifers with Martyn Jennings of Cowling selling the top price bull for £460 with Sowray’s selling the 1st and 2nd Prize British Blue bulls at £455 & £440 with a section average of £346.48.
Natives were once again on good form with an average of £248 for bulls and £143 for Angus heifers topping £340 for a strong Angus bull from Hayton & Stocks, with Hartley’s of Bolton Abbey receiving £280 for their Hereford Heifer.
A much better display of black and whites saw an equally improved trade this week averaging £71.67 and topping at £115 for a bull calf from AJ&A Walmsley, Ripley.
NB: Christmas Dairy Sale Next Week
Rearing Calves to £470 (111)
Dairy av £79.62 Cont av £338.61 Native av £202.47
Bull Calves
Limousin x (Av £334)
£415 C&SB Whitelock; £400 G Pickersgill & Sons; £325 AP Townsend; £310 M&R Smith
Brit Blue x (Av £346.48)
£460 MP Jennings; £455, £440 A Sowray & Son; £420 RM Spence; £420 GT Booth;
Aberdeen Angus (Av £248.57)
£340 Hayton & Stocks; £290 JT Rushton; £290 JP &KE Hartley; £270 ID&JC Briggs
Hereford X (Av £290)
£290 Flasby Estates;
Shorthorn (Av £133)
£310 Flasby Estates;
Pathanais (Av £400)
£400 A Sowray & Son
Simmental (Av £440)
£440 A Sowray & Son
Longhorn (av £100)
£100 AP Townsend
Black & White (Av £71.67)
£115 AJ&A Walmsley & Sons; £110 JS&J Walmsley; £110 JC Marshall; £100 RM&LJ Throup;
Heifer Calves
Hereford x (Av £280)
£280 JP&KE Hartley
Ab Angus (Av £143)
£170 A Sowray & Son; £160 ID&JC Briggs; £140 x2 AJ Lee; £140 Flasby Estates; £135 CJ&DD Drake;
British Blue (Av £355.95)
£470 A Sowray & Son; £440x3 Church Farm Enterprises; £400 PJ&JE Bolland; £395 Church Farm Enterprises
Lim (Av £260)
£430 C&SB Whitelock; £370 Hayton Stocks; £350 M&R Smith; £340 Hayton & Stocks; £300 M&R Smith
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BB Bull
1st A Sowray & Son
2nd JF Longster & Son
3rd RM Spence
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BB Heifer
1st A Sowray & Son
2nd A Sowray & Son
3rd A Sowray & Son
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Lim Bull
1st C&SB Whitelock
2nd C&SB Whitelock
3rd G Pickersgill & Sons
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Lim Heifer
1st Wood Bros
2nd Wood Bros
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Other Cont Bull
1st Chadwick & Leaver
2nd A Sowray & Son
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Native Bull
1st J Rushton
2nd Flasbty Estates
3rd ID&JC Briggs
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Native Heifer
1st ID&JC Briggs
2nd Flasby Estates
3rd A Sowray & Son
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B&W Bull
1st AL Dean
2nd RD Guy
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Champion; Chadwick and Leaver
Reserve Champion; C&SB Whitelock
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