Rearing Calves to £400 (61)
B&W av £87.05 Cont av £263.15 Native av £145.86
Calves a useful trade with the Black and White bull average assisted by a couple of runs of Friesian crosses which were sought after at £120+. A mixed entry of Coloured calves with standout British Blue heifers still £335-£400 and the British Blue Bulls £350+ for the top end.
Bull Calves
Limousin x (Av £282) to £285
Brit Blue x (Av £313) to £365
Aberdeen Angus (Av £153) to £180
Hereford X (Av £190) to £190
Cont (Av £166) to £200
Black & White (Av £87) to £150
Heifer Calves
Hereford (Av £105) to £105
Ab Angus (Av £134) to £225
British Blue (Av £335) to £400
Limousin (Av £196) to £265
Craven Dairy Auction (10 head)
A decent show of 10 Dairies for the NMR sponsored Early Sale in the Month saw a varied selection sell to a nigh on total clearance for the day. Judging was undertaken by brothers Malcolm and Stephen Abbott from Dacre, and they were immediately drawn to a pair of heifers shown by regular consignor Mark Smith from Winterburn. Their champion was a mainly white, commercial homebred Heifer calved 22 days and giving 33 litres with a low cell count, out of a dam that had given over 10,000kg in her first lactation, and she sold for a solid price of £1550 to Skipton regular Roger Naylor. Mr Naylor also secured the reserve champion heifer from the same vendor, almost identical to look at, also giving 33 litres, she sold for £1500. Top price on the day was paid to Messrs DA&S Fort of Glusburn who are conducting an ongoing dispersal through the Craven Dairy Auctions. Mr Fort’s tidy commercial Newly Calved Heifer of only 10 days and giving 21 litres and rising, by the Genus Sire Theory, sold for £1650.
Judge – Abbott Bros
Prize Awards: Newly Calven Heifers: 1st & 2nd M&R Smith 3rd R Johnson & Son
Newly Calven Cows: 1st P Crabtree & Son
Champion & Reserve – M&R Smith
Newly Calven Heifers (£1320): to £1650 DA&S Fort, £1550 £1500 MR Smith, £1450 R Jennings
Newly Calven Cows (£1000): av £1000 P Crabtree & Son
