Rearing Calves to £660 (187)
B&W av £108.22 Cont av £390.93 Native av £257.56
A fantastic show of calves with 187 on offer, despite favourable weather conditions calves were out in force with a bunch of fresh faces taking advantage of the good trade. In the pre-sale show David Smith of Sutton Craven took top honours with a fantastic British Blue bull which ended up selling for an eye watering £650 with the Reserve Champion, a British Blue Heifer from regular supporters the Sowray Brothers topping the sale at £660. British Blues averaged £442 for bulls and £401 for Blue heifers.
Right through trade remained good with Black and White calves again topping at £260 for a Hols/Friesian bull from Hartley’s at Bolton Abbey. Black and whites averaged £108.22 with good calves romping into £120-£150 and beyond.
Natives were on form with a run of some fine Herefords out of MRI’s reaching £370 and averaging just over £300.
Black and calves today averaged 31 days of age with all continental calves averaging exactly 42 days of age.
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BB Bull Calf
1st C Smith
2nd A Sowray & Son
3rd A Sowray & Son
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BB Heifer Calf
1st A Sowray & Son
2nd Church Fm Enterprises
3rd GT Booth
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Limousin Heifer Calf
1st RH&EA Close
2nd JC Marshall
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Limousin Bull Calf
1st CN&SA Harrison
2nd G Pickersgill & Son
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Native Bull Calf
1st CN&SA Harrison
2nd JC Marshall
3rd DL DM & J Heron
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Native Heifer Calf
1st F Spence
2nd Church Fm Enterprises
3rd DL DM &J Heron
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Black and White
1st JP&KE Hartley
2nd Church Fm Enterprises
3rd GB Jennings
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Continental Bull Stirk
1st A Sowray & Son
2nd JC Marshall
3rd JC Marshall
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Champion: C Smith
Reserve : A Sowray & Son
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Bull Calves
Limousin x (Av £330.63)
£455 CA Harrison, Elslack; £410 RD Metcalfe, Brearton; £400 A Sowray & Son, Bishop Thornton;
Brit Blue x (Av £442.02)
£650, £560 C Smith, Sutton in Craven; £615, £510 A Sowray & Son, Bishop Thornton; £570, £530, £520x3, £500, £480, £470 Church Farm Enterprises, Burton Leonard; £530 FA Holmes & Son, Castley; £480 H Raw, Eastburn;
Blonde x to £250 N&R Sutcliffe, Eastwood
Charolais x (Av £382.5)
£525 A Sowray & Son, Bishop Thornton; £240 G Abbott & Son, Dacre
MRI (Av £220)
£220x2 L&A Watson, Eastwood
Aberdeen Angus (Av £241.88)
£275, £265 CM Hall, Shelley; £260 Chadwick & Leaver, Southfield; £250 DL DM & J Heron, Bramhope; £245 JC Marshall & Son
Hereford (Av £300.50)
£370, £340, £330, £310x2, £280x2, £275 L&A Watson, Eastburn; £260 HJ&K Blackwell, Gargrave
Black & White (Av £108.22)
£260 JP&KE Hartley & Son, Bolton Abbey; £250 Church Farm Enterprises, Burton Leonard; £200, £180 G Pickersgill & Son, Hawksworth; £165 GB Jennings, Ripley
Heifer Calves
Limousin x (Av £247.5)
£300 RH&EA Close, Starbotton; £295, £265, £255, £250 JC&DJ Marshall & Sons, West End; £285 G Abbott & Sons, Dacre;
Brit Blue x (Av £401.77)
£660, £410 A Sowray & Son, Bishop Thornton; £600 James Fortune, Tosside; £510 Church Farm Enterprises, Burton Leonard; £435x2, £420x2 H Raw, Eastburn; £430 C Smith, Sutton In Craven; £425 J&G Huck, Hubberholme
Aberdeen Angus (Av £216)
£300 F Spence, Sutton In Craven; £270 C&SB Whitelock, Gargrave; £245 Church Farm Enterprises, Burton Leonard;