First cross Continental lambs for short keep were a very good trade today, seeing a high number of pens £95 to £110, whilst strong medium keep lambs could command £88 to £96. Plenty of nice framed sorts mid £80’s and long keep lambs late £70’s early £80s. A few pens of Continental cross from hill lambs hitting the £80’s , with smaller sorts late £60’s to late 70’s.
Suffolk prices mirrored the first cross Continentals.
Beltex crosses were a strong trade as wintering customers come out looking for sheep. Prices for better end were £110 to £125, topping at £127 from T&C Robinson of Tosside. Beltex crosses averaged £101.25
Hill bred Sheep were forward in large numbers, just shy of 2000 Mule Wethers hitting £90 from M Stocks, Blackshawhead and a breed average of £82.29, Mashams to £93 from JM Wilson & Son, Beckwithshaw to average £86. Nice pens of Mules and Mashams in the main £80 to £86, smaller lambs form wintering mid to late £70’s.
500 Horned Wethers are generally smaller on the year, but were still mainly in the late £50s for nice Swales and Dalesbreds, odd pens in the £60’s, whilst a strong pen of Lonks made £86.50.

Next Sale of Store & Feeding Sheep is on Wednesday 20th October
Entry of 8,000 expected.
Entries close Monday 11th October


PRINCIPLE PRICES
Beltex – Av £101.25
£127 £122 £115 T&C Robinson; £126 P Darwin; £120 £110F&R Fielden; £116 £113 £112 J Greenwood; £115 TB Moorhouse; £114 BR Lawson; £114 Fair Place Farm; £110 JGE Heseltine;
Suffolk – Av £89.65
£112 £91.50 CG Barraclough; £97 MR&VL Parsons; £96 JB Bancroft; £93 RD Metcalfe; £93 JR Carr; £91.50 J&E Hinchcliffe;
Texel – Av £86.27
£118 J&C Grayston; £117 £116 JA&JH Hewetson; £115 J Greenwood; £110 C Fewster; £110 FT Shackleton; £110 Fleets Farms; £108 MS Robinson;
Mule – Av £82.28
£90 M Stocks; £88.50 SL&SD Lund; £88.50 CM Ryder; £88.50 E&E Metcalfe; £86 Fair Place; £86 R&VJ Brown; £85 JC White; £84.50 A&TA Blades; £84.50 RH&EA Close; £84.50 JA Stoney & Son;
Charolais – Av £81.97
£85.50 £80.50 AG Horn; £84.50 J Bradley; £80 High Harbour; £78 FM Thompson;
Swaledale – Av £56.20
£60 A Newbould; £59 JW Stockdale; £59 £57 G&P Middleton; £58 AG Horn; £57 PW Fawcett; £57 E&E Metcalfe; £50 AJ Ogden;
Cheviot – Av £81.65
£84 TB Moorhouse; £82 AG Horn; £79 PW Fawcett; £79 D Pearson; £76.50 FM Shepherd & Son;
Masham – Av £86.29
£93 £89 JM Wilson & Son; £92 V Verity & Son; £80.50 KA Liddle & Partners;
Dalesbred – Av £59.12
£64 R&VJ Brown; £59.50 Hayton & Stocks; £50 FW Horner;
Lonk – Av £77.33
£86.50 £59 AE Schindler; £66 Beeston Hall Farm;
Lleyn – Av £80
£80.50 £79.50 D&C Wood;
Kerry Hill – Av £75.44
£86 £70 L Burrows; £76 A Fisher;


CONTACT DETAILS
Skipton Auction Mart
Gargrave Road
Skipton
North Yorkshire
BD23 1UD
Tel 01756 792375

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