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Store and Breeding Sheep - 7554 Sold - Auctioneers: Elwyn Davies 07710 803901: Peter Kingwill 07795 200357: Mark Cleverdon 07748 202688: John Rossiter 07557 392903
Report on trade - store lambs: The annual show & sale of Suffolk x Mule ewe lambs (sponsored by Pfizer Animal Health) attracted a very similar entry to last year from our regular consignors. Overall trade was more selective than previous years and although the very best sold at £85 plus and well up on the year, the middle of runs looked relatively good value in the £70 to £80 bracket. The bottom pen of runs and lambs not so well bred trended to attract prices in the £60 to £65 bracket these levels reflecting their store values.
Show results - 1st prize H J Hecks & Son and purchased for £95 by S A Gulzar, 2nd prize D Howard farms and purchased for £96 by Miss C Colgrave and 3rd prize C S Wills Trust and purchased for £86 by Mr G Husk.
Other top prices included £92 from Horton Park Farm, £91 from Whelan Farms Ltd, £89.50 from E & M E Brundrett and £88.50 from W J Hurley.
Crossbred store lambs met a similar trade to last week with best sorts £62 plus and up to £65 for Texel crosses from G Lawrence and Son with the majority of small long term sorts £54 to £58. This week saw an improved trade on the week for Romney wethers which made up to £60 from K Wheeler & Sons and showed an overall of £54.90.
Ewe tegs: We saw an exceptional trade for ewe tegs, with an overall average of £149.63 and topping at £195 for a pen of Charollais from T & E Gribble. Mules topped at £170 from Eartham Partnership, Suffolk x Mules made to £156 from P D Denne and the majority of tegs sold in the £145 to £160 bracket with a few pens of leaner sheep attracting prices around £130.
Breeding Ewes: the day saw plenty of interest for all ewes on offer with the flock dispersal for the reps of the late M H foster taking the pick of the trade Their Suffolk x Mule 1 & 2 lambers made to £135, 3 lambers made up to £116 and 4 lambers to £105 while purebred Charollais ewes sold to £118 from T & E Gribble.
Lairage facilities available from 3pm Thursday and staff on duty from 6am Friday morning - please continue to help us by getting your sheep to market early for these big sales
Principle averages - £ per head
Description - No - Top - Bottom - Average Store Lambs
Suffolk x Mule ewe - 2945 - 98.00 - 27.00 - 75.20
Suffolk Cross - 299 - 61.30 - 42.00 - 59.30
Charollais Cross - 193 - 63.20 - 40.00 - 60.60
Texel Cross ewe - 45 - 86.00 - 76.00 - 81.11
Texel Cross - 796 - 65.00 - 27.00 - 57.70
Crossbred - 532 - 62.70 - 40.00 - 54.00
Romney wethers - 827 - 61.25 - 45.00 - 54.90
Ewe Tegs
Mule - 648 - 170.00 - 130.00 - 151.50
Suffolk x Mule - 646 - 159.00 - 130.00 - 147.20
Texel Cross - 32 - 156.00 - 136.00 - 143.50
Charollais and Charollais Cross - 20 - 195.00 - 160.00 - 177.50
Breeding Ewes
Mule - 130 - 86.00 - 52.00 - 69.50
Suffolk Cross - 277 - 135.00 - 35.00 - 107.60
Charollais Cross - 27 - 118.00 - 100.00 - 114.00
Breeding Rams: The demand and subsequent trade for rams at this early sale was lack lustre with expensive females at present those running large flocks are unsure what replacement rams they will need. The South East Texel Group relaunched their official show and sale of principally ram tegs and breeders produced good quality runs of sheep. The show was judged by Robert Langrish (Newchurch) and was sponsored by Duffields Animal Feeds who were represented by Colin Beesty. Paul and Mary Anthony produced the best ram on the day and he went on to make top price, £620 and secured by L Stevens and Sons, Sittingbourne. Full results will be published next week.
Roland Frampton judged the KWG and Hobbs Parker sponsored best pen of 4 or more in the open sale. 1st J & C Maxwell, Cambridgeshire; 2nd Seahawes.com, Oxfordshire 3rd Simmons Smallholding, Norfolk and 4th Weeksland Charolais, Biddenden
Trade in the sale did not excite and away from the best rams demand was very selective. J & C Maxwells Charollais made to £690 (6 av £560); P H & P E Skinners Texels made to £530 (5 av £456) and A Vernon saw his 10 Texels make to £380 and average £327.50
Breeding Rams - No - Top - Bottom - Average
Texel tegs - 38 - 620.00 - 260.00 - 365.39
Charollais tegs and lambs - 15 - 690.00 - 300.00 - 455.33
Sale report - Friday 7th October 2011 - Store and Breeding Sheep - 4744 Sold - Auctioneers: Elwyn Davies 07710 803901, Peter Kingwill 07795 200357, Jon Rossiter and Mark Cleverdon
Report on trade:
Store lambs: The Romney day sale attracted a similar entry to last year and while the ewe lambs met a selective trade the ewe tegs sold at similar levels to last year with a slight improvement for the best. The ewe lambs were a very mixed quality with the best selling in excess of £70, average quality around the £60 mark and the small sorts selling at prices reflecting store values which was a very similar pattern to that experienced on the Suffolk x Mule ewe lamb day.
Breeding sheep: A similar entry to last year of ewe tegs met a relatively strong trade with the best selling in excess of £110 and up to £130 while majority of 2nd quality ranged in the £90 to £110 bracket. A good attendance of buyers came for the older breeding ewes which attracted prices in excess of grazing or slaughter value. A pen of 2 lamb ewes topped the market at £87.50 from G Homewood, 3 lambers to £82 from the same vendor and 3 & 4 lambers made to £78 from W Cooke & Son (Farmers) Ltd
Romney day competition prize winners as follows: Ewe lambs 1st Prize - L J Ramsden £72 purchased by W Higgs, Eastbourne. 2nd prize - G B Richards & Son £80 purchased by P Parsons, Towcester; 3rd prize - M A & F W Owen £87 purchased by P Parsons; 4th prize - G R & A J Weller £75 purchased by W Higgs, Eastbourne. Other top prices included £86 from Wright Farm Partnership and £80 from A A Barr Farms.
Ewe tegs 1st Prize - P T Wratten, Hythe £125 purchased by P J Hewett, Cranleigh; 2nd prize - M J Priesig £113 purchased by L F Crisford and Sons, Rye; 3rd prize - L J Ramsden £113 purchased by Mrs J Gallois, Sissinghurst; 4th Prize - N Balcomb & Son £130 purchased by K Elgar, Worcestershire. Other top prices included £121 from Lordsland Farms & £119 from P Reed. Thanks goes to W Stewart Wood (Sittingbourne) for judging these competitions.
Lairage facilities available from 3pm Thursday and staff on duty from 6am Friday morning - please continue to help us by getting your sheep to market early for these big sales
Principle averages - £ per head
Description - No - Top - Bottom - Average
Romney ewe lambs - 2254 - 87.00 - 35.00 - 58.20
Romney ewe tegs - 1239 - 130.00 - 69.00 - 102.00
Breeding ewes - 1187 - 87.50 - 28.00 - 62.70
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