EWE LAMBS REACH £160 BUT LLEYN BUYERS ARE IN CAUTIOUS MOOD AT CARLISLE
October 7th 2007
The Lleyn Sheep Society, which opened its sale season at Carlisle last weekend with an entry of over 5800 females and 180 rams, saw ewe lambs reach £160 apiece and shearling gimmers £130 - but in line with the current problems facing the sheep sector, trading was cautious throughout the day.
Breed society chairman Dai Morris and his wife Cynthia had left home at midnight to travel over 330 miles from their home at St Clears, Carmarthen to sell at Borderway Mart and were rewarded with the day’s top female price.
Their ewe lambs reached £160 a head to J N Ellis, Kenley, Shropshire. A long run of ewe lambs made £50 apiece from two consignors -Farmstock Genetics, Selkirk and Frank Dinsdale, Kirkby Stephen, Cumbria.
Earning the day’s best bid for shearling gimmers was John Page, Edenhall, Penrith. His most fancied entries realised £130 apiece to P R C Dean, Brampton, Cumbria
Other leading bids for shearlings included £90 a head for sheep from Derek Steen’s flock at Lockerbie taken by T Bell, Richmond, North Yorkshire while Hamish Goldie (Dumfries) achieved a best of £85 paid by Aberdeenshire buyer A Logie. The same buyer matched the bid for shearlings from John and Rachel Geldard, Levens, Cumbria.
Derek Steen paid the day’s highest ram price giving 1600gns for a twin-bred shearling consigned by Laga Farms Ltd, Orkney.
Averages: shearling gimmers £62.76 and ewe lambs £46.80 and shearling rams £395.
Auctioneers : Harrison and Hetherington