Fortnightly Catalogue Sale of Store Lambs and Early Breeding Sheep.
CCM Auctions held their 3rd Fortnightly Catalogue Sale of Store Lambs at Skipton on Wednesday where a very nice entry of 6,151 head were sold on the day. Trade for lowland lambs was slightly sharper than the previous sale with customers keen to graze surplus grass. Mule Wether Lambs topped at £52 for a pen of 30 Dales Mules from Keith Verity, Lofthouse with an average for the 535 head of £48.80. 312 Breeding sheep were sold today at a similar trade to last fortnight for mainly older ewes.
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6,463 Store & Breeding Sheep comprising:
6,151 Head of Store & Gimmer Lambs (Overall av £52.35)
312 Breeding Sheep
Next Sale is Wednesday 26th August – Entry of 8,000 – 10,000 expected.
Includes Annual Show & Sale of Pen of 50 Mule Wether Lambs for the Stephen Foster Memorial Trophy
Also New Special Show & Sale of Pens of 10 Beltex Sired Store Lambs (one pen per farm)
Entries close Monday 17th August at 4pm
PRINCIPLE PRICES
Beltex – Av £54.91
£71 £67 AM&HV Brown; £69 AJ Haggas; £67 I&M Lancaster; £66 MP&NEG Burnop; £63 £60 AM Leach; £62 JGE Heseltine & Son;
Texel – Av £52.65
£62 £60 AJ Ogden; £61 £59 SB&AJ Wallbank; £60 W Mason & Son; £58 E&AM Simpson; £58 T&S Gamble; £57.50 JW Sayer & Son; £57.50 AJ Haggas
Suffolk – Av £54.74
£59.50 AJ Haggas; £58 RD Metcalfe & Son; £57 DR&FE Wallbank; £57 JA&M Crocker & Son; £54.50 SL&SD Lund
Mule – Av £48.80
£52 KR Verity; £51.50 W&R Verity; £51.50 RH&EA Close; £51 J&K Harker; £50 A Newbould & Son; £50 AJ Mason; £49 W Banks & Son; £48.50 Swinbank & Briggs;
Texel Gimmer Lambs – av £58.28
£73 S&D Robinson; £67 AM&HV Brown;
Breeding Ewes
Suffolk 2shr - £100 Mrs M Brown; £89 J Turner
Suffolk 3shr - £94 £90 RG Greenwood
Suffolk Aged - £88 J Turner; £83 P&AM Simpson
Texel Shlgs - £114 P&AM Simpson; £102 JW Hall
Texel 3 shr - £96 £90 £90 RG Greenwood
Texel Aged - £104 J Gooch; £92 P&AM Simpson; £90 £88 £87 J Turner; £86 J Palmer
Texel Rams 2shr – 400gn 200gn RG Greenwood
Texel Rams 3shr – 350gn 240gn RG Greenwood