Good genuine runs of lambs were easy to sell with a pen of 57, straight texel x lambs from Angus Dean selling for £79.5, with a pen of 51 white faced lambs from Simon Kavanagh of Draughton also reaching £77.

Plenty of pens of horned lambs were on offer today with the best of the trade seen by James Carr of Dunsop Bridge with a pen of wethers at £49.50 with a pen of handy gimmers from WA&A Booth selling to a straight price of £52. Plenty of late born lambs ranging from £30 - £60 dependant on quality and breed so don’t be afraid to get some entered for the next sale in a fortnight time.

PRINCIPLE PRICES

Suffolk – Av £71.41

£76 AL Dean; £75 BW Appleton; £70 A Fisher; £67.50 JH&J Ryder;   

Texel – Av £69.14

£81 J&C Grayston; £80 £79.50 AL Dean; £79 GR&PL Jowett; £79 Hunters Oak; £78.50 JJ&D Cowking;

Mule – Av £66.26

£79 SA Fairburn; £76 £75.50 KA&HL Fawcett; £75 £74 J&K Harker; £69.50 JR Taylor; £69.50 AL Dean; £67.50 BW Appleton;  

Charolais – Av £63.45

£71 D Collinge; £57 Hayton & Stocks; £47 AC Ward;

Swaledale – Av £42.64

£52 WA&A Booth; £49.50 £41 AJ Carr; £47 AV Caton; £44.50 AC Ward; £41.50 AL Dean; £39.50 JW Tinkler;

Dalesbred – Av £41.96

£64 SA Fairburn; £54 £38 R&VJ Brown;

Cheviot – Av £69

£69 J Caygill & Partners;

Beltex – Av £66.91

£70 £69 £63 D Gray;

 Hampshire – Av £72

£72 New York Farms

BREEDING SHEEP

Texel                     to £70 CR Green

Mule                     to £180 RS Tyler

Lleyn                     to £125 B Marsden

FEEDING EWES

Texel     to £80

Mule     to £56

Swale    to £44

BLUE FACED LEICESTERS

At CCM’s Winter Sale of Blue Faced Leicester Females the Blubberhouses based Hewness Flock owned by Kevin Wilson and his son James took championship and top priced honours at £1000 with their gimmer hogg L11. Highly admired by many, this classy hogg with great length and style with a good skin to match sired by the Harland F1, Big Head, fell for the top price of the day to JC&N Throup, Draughton.

John Mason, Oddacres closely followed at £900 with a Smearsett K7 sired gimmer hogg. Herself a good skinned cleaner type with a great carcass and exemplary breeding line behind her found her new home at Twiston, Lancashire with Messrs J Palmer & Sons.

Oddacres also sold a Gimmer Shearling by their Will Wildman Micklaw tup scanned carrying three to the Asby Hall H3 which has being doing well for the Masons. It sold for £420 to JR Lancaster of Bordley.

Robin and David Booth are never far away from the top of the prices and today was no exception when their Smearsett Gimmer Hogg L49 by the homebred G11 Ted ram came forward for sale. With a great pedigree and a full brother ram lamb selling to £24000, this nice hogg went back to Bordley with Rose Tennant.
James Stenton from Pickering sold the first prize gimmer shealring, carrying a single to the NIsbets J1, and it went locally to Ken Dickinson of Blacko.

Gimmer Hoggs averaged £538 and ewes £240.

Class 1 – Inlamb Shearling/Ewe

1^st D&J Stenton Lot 10

2^nd CM&J Stott Lot 2

3^rd AJ Mason Lot 13

Class 2 – Gimmer Hogg

1^st JK Wilson Lot 19

2^nd AJ Mason Lot 14

3^rd WA&A Booth Lot 12

Champion – JK Wilson Lot 19

Reserve – AJ Mason Lot 14

Inlamb Ewes/Shearling (av £240)

AJ Mason            £420

D&J Stenton      £280

Gimmer Hoggs (av £538)

JK Wilson            £1000

AJ Mason            £900

WA&A Booth     £600

AV Caton             £400