Ewe with respected maternal traits
Annual Show & Sale at Carlisle Mart
Plenty of excitement at Carlisle today with sheep selling well to breeders and commercial customers. A noted high quality of sheep meant that buyers were not disappointed.
The shearling ewes broke the £200 average barrier to finish at £208. Topping the section was the first prize pen from JK Goldie, Dumfries which sold for £300/head to I Valentine, Boosbeck. L Jenkinson, Kirkby Stephen sold the second prize pen for £270/head to Twose Farms Ltd, Whitland. The same buyer bought their next pen at £250/head. JA & R Geldard & Sons, Kendal sold two pens at £245/head, first five were purchased by Capper Farming, Johnstone, next a pen of fifteen went home with MJ Wells & Sons, Bakewell. JK Goldie also had a pen away at £245/head to I Valentine. 42 pens sold for £200 plus. Away from the breeders type sheep, many sheep were able to be purchased for £160 -£195 with several buyers looking to use as recipients. A couple of smaller lots late in the ballot sold for £150-160.
There was the usual class for the individual shearling ewe which saw the first prize from H Goldie sell for £400 to C Long, Strabane. The second prize from Farmstock Genetics, Selkirk sold for £300 to Jenkinson Ltd, Hartley. L Jenkinson, Kirkby Stephen sold the third prize for £350 to J Kingan, Troqueer. The £350 is being donated to Parkinsons UK in memory of Linda’s father who passed away in February.
The ewe lamb buyers could be selective with better older/better grown lambs being picked out. The top price came from the pen of Farmstock Genetics, Selkirk who sold their first prize pen for £260/head to the judge Bethan Vaughan, Tufton, Pembroke. L Jenkinson sold next with five selling for £160/head to AW Watson, Lockerbie. The first pen into the ring from GH Blakey, Morpeth sold for £145/head to AG Selway, Dorset. At the same price Messrs Blakey sold a pen of ten to Bethan Vaughan. Sellers could agree sales for the better grown lambs at £118/head plus. £100-£110 saw a few change hands with some smaller/late born lambs changing hands in the £90’s.
The ram sale saw a crowd at the ringside until the end with only 7 (of which most were at the end of the sale) out of the 119 forward failing to find new homes. The highlight came from well known breeders E & D Jones, Machynlleth with Lluest (00599/2011824) sired by Whitcastles Hot Stuff selling to the judge Terry Fort, for his Forts Flock at Keighley. Messrs Jones had the next best price at 3500gns when selling Lluest (00599/2012009) sired by Wraycastle Edwaldo to Sian Jones for her Pentre Flock near Wrexham. The pen of Laga Farms, Orkney won the new class. The pen highlight was Lagas (00971/2015310) sired by Brynowen Governor which had won 3rd prize in the show, he sold for 3200gns to G & A Fort, Keighley. D Steen, Moffat sold Ballylinney Jacob (00809/2001277) sired by a homebred sired for 3200gns to JCB Farms Ltd, Staffordshire. 10 rams hit 2000gns plus with 38 rams securing 1000gns plus on the day.
Averages
925 Shearling ewes to £300 (£400 individual) av £208
273 Ewe lambs to £260 av £117
112 Rams to 9000gns av £1067
Top Prices
Shearling Ewes
JK Goldie £300
L Jenkinson £270
L Jenkinson £250
JA & R Geldard & Sons £245 (x2)
JK Goldie £245
JA & R Geldard & Sons £240
E & D Jones £240
H & M Dugdale & Son £235
H & M Dugdale & Son £232 (x2)
JK Goldie £232
GH Blakey £230
E & D Jones £230
Farmstock Genetics £228
H & M Dugdale & Son £228
Orchard Lleyn £228
H & M Dugdale & Son £225
Orchard Lleyn £225
JK Goldie £225
JA & R Geldard & Sons £222
C & A Kennedy £220
GH Blakey £220
Individual Shearling Ewe
H Goldie £400
L Jenkinson £350
Farmstock Genetics £300
Ewe Lambs
Farmstock Genetics £260
L Jenkinson £160
GH Blakey £145 (x2)
GH Blakey £128
J Morton £128
C & A Kennedy £128
J Morton £122
P Knowles £120
Farmstock Genetics £120
E Robinson £118 (x2)
J Morton £115
Rams
E & D Jones (114) 9000gns
E & D Jones (116) 3500gns
Laga Farms (69) 3200gns
D Steen (84) 3200gns
T & B Fort (96) 3000gns
H Goldie (79) 2800gns
GH Blakey (38) 2600gns
C Lewis (51) 2200gns
Laga Farms (71) 2200gns
K & D Whitelaw (113) 2200gns
G & A Fort (12) 1800gns
C Davidson (50) 1800gns
Farmstock Genetics (55) 1800gns
JK Goldie (61) 1800gns
C & A Kennedy (32) 1700gns
GH Blakey (37) 1600gns
M & R Cursiter (118) 1600gns
Laga Farms (74) 1500gns
Show Results
Judges: Females – Bethan Vaughan, Rams – Terry Fort
Shearling Ram
Best Pen of Rams (Exhibited by Scottish & Borders Club Members)
Pen of Five Shearling Ewes
Pen of Five Ewe Lambs
Individual Shearling Ewe