Huge demand for Lleyn sheep at the Stirling Society Sale resulted in an electric trade for females, with prices for shearling ewes reaching heights of £430 and the section levelling out at £383.28 for 128 sold.

Securing that top price was the pre-sale show female champions, a pen of 5 from H Goldie, South Bowerhouses, Dumfries. These girls headed home with C Byrne, Lathones Farm, Fife.

Next in the trade stakes at £420 was a pen of 24 from C Davidson, Skaill, Orkney. These sold to J & A Dunlop, Ashfield Farm, Maybole – who also bought another pen of 24 from the same home for £410 per head.

M Calderwood, Rosneath Farms, Helensburgh, sold his best pen of 8 for £410 to Winton Trust, Pencaitland, whilst C Crawford, Stonehaven secured a top price of £400 per head for her third prize pen of 5, which were bought by C Haxton, Perthshire.

M Calderwood then matched that £400 bid with a pen of 17 making £400 when selling to C Byrne.

Ewe lambs saw a 100& clearance with prices peaking at £260 for the first prize pen of 5 from Farmstock Genetics, Over Whitlaw. These girls sold to Harelaw Farms, Kilbarchan.

Next best at £200 was a pen of 10 from E Robinson, High Milton, Elrig, who sold his best to C Haxton.

R Johnston & Sons, Roughlands, Falkirk bought two pens of ewe lambs for £190 per head, the first from Farmstock Genetics and then again for the second prize pen of 5 from R & S Turnbull.

Across in the rams, trade remained buoyant throughout with almost all entries finding new homes on the day and the section levelling out at an impressive 1513gns for 36 sold.

Prices peaked at 4000gns for Skaill Nathan (01674/2406028) from C Davidson. Sired by (01299/2224633) and out of a home-bred ewe, he found a new home with Farmstock Genetics.

Seconds later, another from the same home secured 2200gns, this time for Skaill Norman (01674/2406175). A son of (00894/2013327), he was knocked down to W & N Lawrence, Ellon, Aberdeenshire.

I Walling’s pre-sale show champion male, Eildon Lleyns No-Nonsense (00983/2423709) secured a top bid of 2100gns. No stranger to the show circuit, this boy stood reserve male champion at this year’s Royal Highland Show and is sired by (00599/2011762). He sold to A Jones, Coull Farm, Islay.

Eildon Lleyns Nige; (00983/2422858) from the same home was just behind at 2000gns. The same way bred as the pen leader, this boy was purchased by Rosneath Farms, Helensburgh.

M & R Cursiter sold their best, (00971/2419942), for 2000gns. Sired by (01299/2125770), he went under the hammer to CJ & JS Robertson, East Carmont, Stonehaven.

Averages

Shearling ewes to £430 av. £383.28 (+£157)

Ewe lambs to £260 av. £202.86 (+£34)

Rams to 4000gns av. 1513gns (+541gns)

Top Prices

Shearling ewes

H Goldie, £430

C Davidson, £420

C Davidson, £410

M Calderwood, £410

C Crawford, £400

M Calderwood, £400

Farmstock Genetics, £360

M Calderwood, £360

Laga Farms, £350

Laga Farms, £320

CJ & JS Robertson, £280

Ewe lambs

Farmstock Genetics, £260

E Robinson, £200

R & S Turnbull, £190

Farmstock Genetics, £190

Rams

C Davidson, 4000gns

C Davidson, 2200gns

I Walling, 2100gns

M & R Cursiter, 2000gns

I Walling, 2000gns

Laga Farms, 1900gns (x2)

Laga Farms, 1800gns (x3)

J K Goldie, 1800gns

M & R Cursiter, 1800gns

I Walling, 1700gns

Show Results

Judge: M Jenkinson, Woodfoot.

Shearing ram

1^st – I Walling

2^nd – M & R Cursiter

3^rd – N Lawrence

Pen of five shearling ewes

1^st – H Goldie

2^nd – Farmstock Genetics

3^rd – C Crawford

Pen of five ewe lambs

1^st – Farmstock Genetics

2^nd – R & S Turnbull