Rearing Calves to £445 (40)
B&W av £101.5 Cont av £317.33 Native av £178.33
Blues into top gear again today with Brian Wellock presenting a tremendous blue bull on behalf of his son James of Seat House Farm, Eshton which sold for the sale high of £445 and is on it’s way to hull. A run of cracking blues from Joss Lancaster of Horton in Craven sold to £430 three times, £425, £400 and £395 and also topping the heifers at £330. Right through blue bulls were good to sell with a section average of £383.75. Blue heifers not quite as potent today with a show not just the standard of last fortnight despite this plenty faces were present to produce a respectable average of £255.88.
A good show of black and white calves today with some nice runs of well fleshed calves seeing a very healthy average of £101.5 topping for a strapping bull from John & James Dugdale of Settle at £165 with a Pure Friesian from Richard Spence of Sutton In Craven at £135. Aberdeen Angus calves found a ready audience today with heifers flying off the shelves with an average of £197.5.
Bull Calves
Limousin x (Av £400) to £400 MH&DE Wallbank;
Brit Blue x (Av £383.75) to £445 J Wellock;
Aberdeen Angus (Av £140) to £140 M Fewster
Black & White (Av £101.5) to £165 H&M Dugdale & Son
Heifer Calves
Aberdeen Angus (Av £197.5) to £205 ID&JC Briggs
British Blue (Av £255.88) to £330 J&SA Lancaster
Lim (Av £310) to £310 JC&N Throup