CCM Auctions held their third fortnightly sale of gimmer lambs at Skipton Mart on Tuesday where 6,649 lambs were sold, representing an increase of just over 1,000 head on the year.
Forward: 6,649 GIMMER LAMBS, comprising
Total entry of 5,196 Mule Gimmer Lambs av £81.26 per head
Comprising -
3,203 North of England (NEMSA) Mule av £81.77 (-£2.46 on 2015)
1,614 Mule Lambs (Non Members) av £79.34 (-3.16 on 2015)
379 Dales Mule av £85.13 (+£1.52 on 2015)
182 Masham Lambs av £85.90 (+£4.30 on 2015)
1,271 Swaledale av £79.13 (+£1.82 on 2015)
SHOW RESULTS;
MASHAM (£85.90)
Judge Mr M Elliott
1st – A&SL Throup sold for £95
2nd – IS Wallace sold for £97
3rd – V Verity sold for £89
The final Masham Sheep Breeders Association sale of the season of Masham Gimmer Lambs saw an increase of £4.30 on the year. Mesrs A&SL Throup&Son of Silsden Moor whose family have shown lambs at this fixture for 77 years were selected as champions with a pen of strong tupping lambs which sold at £95 to ME &MB Crowder. Second prize was awarded to Mesrs RW&MJ Wallis and Sons of Maske with a pen of very good skinned lambs which sold to Mike Credland for £97.
£97 RW&MJ Wallis; £95 £93 £92 £90 A&SL Throup; £89 V Verity; £89 J Verity & Son; £88 Bainbridge Bros;
DALES MULE (£85.13)
Judge Mr M Elliott
1st – RH&EA Close sold for £120
2nd – W&R Verity sold for £118
3rd – JK Wilson sold for £120
A great entry this year and trade sharper as well. This new cross is becoming more popular year on year and worthy of buyers attention.
The Josephine Bartlett Memorial Trophy awarded to the owner of the Champion pen
£120 RH&EA Close; £120 £90 £89 JK Wilson; £118 £94 £92 J Verity & Son; £91 KR Verity
NORTH OF ENGLAND MULE – MEMBERS LAMBS (£81.77)
Judge Mr M Barker
1st – ASE Crisp & Son sold for £145
2nd – J&G Huck sold for £124
3rd – ASE Crisp & Son sold for £132
A fairly mixed show for quality attracted a decent company of buyers with several attending the sale for the first time. Better end of lambs on the day were easily traded, as was anything with plenty of size too, but smaller lambs, especially the lighter headed types or poor skinned ones were less money than some would have anticipated, showing that buyers are willing to pay for the better types. Generally the lambs at this sale were marginally smaller on the year and consequently show a small fall in average on the year.
Robert Crisp of Calton had the Champion pen of lambs and they sold for £145 each, closely followed by his third prize pen at £132. Quite a few better lots on the day making it in to three figures.
£145 £132 £122 £110 ASE Crisp; £126 Ashfield Farms; £124 J&G Huck; £122 AJ Mason; £110 CD&RF Kitching; £109 JC&N Throup;
MULE - NON MEMBERS LAMBS (£79.34)
£100 £96 OM Chapman; £96 RG&H Preece; £96 E Pennock & Son; £95 TH&A Pickard; £94 W Harrison & Son;
SWALEDALE (£79.13)
Judge Messrs Jack & Frank Kitching
1st – JM&S Tennant sold for £118
2nd – K Huck - G Huck &Son Unsold
3rd – CT Akrigg Unsold
In the Swaledale Ring, John Tennant of Low Bucker House, Bordley assisted by daughter Rosie won the Craven Cattle Marts Ltd Trophy for the Champion pen of 10 Swaledale Gimmer Lambs. The prize winners featured daughters of rams bred by Raymond & Alison Calvert at Hoggarths, Messrs Patrick &Kirsty Sowerby of Stainmore and Messrs S&P Brogden of Helbeck and head up the leading prizes when selling to Messrs AL Dean &Son who farm at Threshfield for £155.
An increased entry of lambs met a good trade with the average up £1.85 on the year at £79.16 and the leading runs receiving considerable interest from buyers buoyed by the season’s strong demand for Mule ewe lambs and Swaledale draft ewes.
£155 JM&S Tennant; £145 I Wilson; £145 £135 AJ Mason; £122 R Tennant; £110x2 WP&B Walker; £110 JE Cowperthwaite; £110 RW&B Chapman;