Store and Breeding Sheep Sale report – Friday 20th September 2019
Store and Breeding Sheep
8,110 Sold
Auctioneers: Elwyn Davies 07710 803901, John Rossiter 07557 392903, Peter Kingwill 07795 200357 and Tom Hamplett 07966 104532
Report on trade: The largest entry of store lambs this season attracted a few more customers at ringside and trade was competitive throughout with prices firming slightly on recent weeks particularly at the stronger end of the sale. Generally prices are now on a par with last year with the best stores £62 plus and topping at £66 for a pen of superb Charollais crosses from Wey Street Farm and a pen of store Texel crosses to £65 from H Crump & Son. Medium sorts sold readily with the majority £55 to £60 and small long term stores £45 to £53.
The ewe teg trade remains selective although there were a few more customers at ringside for the best but second and third quality sorts proving difficult to sell. The stronger Mules made up to £120 from Brodie Farms while a big percentage of the lessor quality sorts ranging from £80 to £100.
The Annual Show & Sale of Pedigree Beltex, held in conjunction with the Central Beltex Club, saw a quality entry of Beltex sheep presented for sale here at Ashford. Judge James Bianchi’s champion Merton Hall Daisy Daisy ET from E D Jones, Cottenham sold to local breeder P Davies, Bilsington for £450. Reserve overall champion and champion ram teg Merton Hall Donald Duck from the same vendor sold to Miss H Dent, Maidstone for £480. Top priced Beltex on the day went to E D Jones for a ram teg Glenpark Dagger ET at £600 bought by K Sheilds, Bexhill, Sussex.
The pedigree Beltex ram tegs averaged £473 with pedigree ewe tegs averaging £242.
A wide selection of good quality commercial rams were forward for sale with a total of 91 sold with an average price of £302.97 all in. A more buoyant trade than the previous sale with tupping getting ever closer. Texel ram tegs including a handful of Blue Texels sold to £380 (x6) from N A Balcomb & Son Charollais with selling to £380 again from the Balcombs. Suffolks topped the commercial trade at £540 from the Balcombs and again the Beltex x Charollais, sold to £340 from the same family.
C F Fuggle sold Suffolks to £400 and W Stewart Wood £360, B J Baker and N C & C G Hedges both sold Charollais to £350
Principal prices included: | ||
Charollais cross | £66.00 | Wey Street Farm |
Charollais cross | £64.20 | J E Wickens |
Charollais cross | £64.00 | S J Edmed & Sons/D & J Murray |
Charollais cross | £62.80 | Lodgelands Farm |
Charollais cross | £62.50 | W G Vant & Sons |
Charollais cross | £61.80 | Bocketts Farm Ltd |
Charollais cross | £61.20 | D H Ford & Son |
Beltex cross | £64.00 | S Weeks & Sons |
Texel cross | £65.00 | H Crump & Son |
Texel cross | £62.50 | P & G & J Carden |
Texel cross | £62.20 | Watership Down Partnership |
Texel cross | £61.80 | M A & F W Owen |
Suffolk x Mule | £63.80 | J E Wickens |
Suffolk x Mule | £62.00 | E W & R E Hanks |
Suffolk x Mule | £61.00 | J & M Carr |
Romney wether | £60.50 | H Metcalfe |
Romney wether | £57.00 | Mrs E Ford |
Romney wether | £56.80 | H G Tompsett & Sons Ltd |
Romney wether | £56.20 | J D Hickman |
Romney wether | £56.00 | K Wheeler & Sons |
Ewe Tegs | ||
North Country Mules | £120.00 | Brodie Farms |
North Country Mules | £118.00 | C S Hall |
North Country Mules | £110.00 | Swallow Mill Farms |
Suffolk x Mule | £114.00 | D J & S F Wraight |
Suffolk x Mule | £110.00 | M Hudson/Whiligh Farms |
Suffolk x Romney | £99.00 | J Hills |
Texel cross | £91.00 | A G Gaze & Son |
Breeding Ewes | ||
Texel x Romney – flock ages | £72.50 | Mrs V McDonald |
Principal averages – £ per head | ||||
Store Lambs | No | Top | Bottom | Average |
Beltex cross | 412 | 64.00 | 47.50 | 54.80 |
Charollais cross | 1,142 | 66.00 | 20.00 | 57.90 |
Texel cross | 1,140 | 65.00 | 25.00 | 55.50 |
Suffolk cross | 1,227 | 63.80 | 31.00 | 55.00 |
Crossbred | 742 | 61.30 | 1.00 | 54.60 |
Romney wethers | 1,855 | 60.50 | 25.00 | 49.60 |
Ewe Tegs | ||||
Mule | 473 | 120.00 | 60.00 | 101.00 |
Suffolk cross | 385 | 114.00 | 71.00 | 95.00 |
Texel cross | 149 | 91.00 | 70.00 | 85.00 |
Romney | 30 | 65.00 | 65.00 | 65.00 |
Breeding Ewes | 76 | 72.50 | 24.00 | 58.20 |
Rams | ||||
Beltex | 10 | 600.00 | 200.00 | 287.00 |
Charollais | 19 | 380.00 | 220.00 | 317.37 |
Crossbred | 14 | 340.00 | 200.00 | 292.86 |
Suffolk | 22 | 540.00 | 200.00 | 355.00 |
Texel | 23 | 380.00 | 150.00 | 282.17 |