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The Cumberland and Dumfriesshire Farmers Mart P.L.C.
held their annual sale of registered and un-registered Texel rams & females,
sponsored by Wallace Oils, on Wednesday 21st
September 2005, along
with their second sale of accredited and non accredited 44 Zwartbles
sheep. Also forward was a catalogue entry of 111 Suffolk
and other Continental rams.
The Texel ring saw buyers selective in their purchases with only
the best quality sheep easily sold, other sheep proved very hard
to cash.
In the show for registered Texels held prior to the sale, the judge
Mr Jim Frame, Little Gala, Wiston awarded the championship to a
Texel ram lamb from Messrs Currie, Carlinside, Lanark which later
realised £600 and was purchased by Messrs Kerr, Middleton
Farm, Newton Mearns. The prize list was as follows:-
Registered shearlings:– 1st and Reserve Champion – Haltcliffe, £200
to D’Mainholm.
2nd – Castlehill, £400
to Crumhaugh Hill.
3rd – Beechcroft, £320
to Muirhead.
Registered ram lambs:- 1st and Champion – Carlinside, £600
to Middleton.
2nd – Chesterhall
Parks (unsold).
3rd – Haltcliffe, £200
to Bankhead.
Other leading prices:-
Shearlings - £320, £300 (x2)
Haltcliffe, £300 (x2) Castlehill, £300 (x2) Baltier, £281, £260
Sandilands.
Lambs
- £180 Baltier, £160 Haltcliffe.
The unregistered show saw the Championship awarded to a Texel shearling
ram from Messrs Aitken, Kerfield, Peebles, with the reserve going
to a Texel shearling from J. Graham, Lawshall. The prize
list was as follows:-
Unregistered shearlings:- 1st and Champion – Kerfield, £260
to Braeshaw.
2nd
and Reserve – Lawshall, £380 to Harelawhill.
3rd – Rulewater, £250
to Rockcliffe.
Unregistered ram lambs:- 1st– Peela Hill, £150 to Rockcliffe.
2nd– Raggetsyke, £120
to Martindale.
3rd – Raggetsyke
(unsold).
Other leading prices:-
Shearlings - £260 Catslackburn, £250
(x3) Rulewater Parks, £250 (x2) Catslackburn.
Leading flock averages:- Baltier (2) – top £300, average £300.
Castlehill
(10) – top £400, average £260.
Sandilands
(3) – top £280, average £253.
Catslackburn
(3) - £260, average £253.
Haltcliffe
(9) – top £320, average £251.
Rulewater
Parks (3) – top £250, average £250.
Lawshall
(5) - £380, average £238.
Texel gimmers to:- £140 East Middle.
Texel ewe lambs to:- £80 (x3) Dashwellgreen.
44 Zwartbles sheep were forward and females were again a flying
trade, peaking at £300 for a group A ewe lamb from Mrs J.
Millar, Woodhousehill, Kirkpatrick Fleming, others from the same
home sold to £290 and £250. Other ewe lambs from
Broadway Orchard, Herts peaked at £200 and £180, Troutbeck,
Carlisle to £190 and £140, Low Lonning, Hallbankgate £100. Rams
sold to £160 for a shearling from East Middles, with two
shears to £140 from Ropebarn, Blanchland.
Included was the first special sale of Beltex
and Beltex cross rams which peaked at £500 for a shearling from Drumrash.
PRINCIPAL RAM PRICES
Beltex cross shearlings - £400 Stubbyknowe, £380, £360
Mouldy Hill, £250, £200 Newton, £200 Tercrosset, £200
(x2) Blackhamilton.
Charollais shearlings - £280, £250 (x2) Upper Auchenlay.
Bleu d’Maine tup lambs - £150 Clantibuies.
Suffolk lambs - £130 Cleughfoot and Henrys Hill.
Suffolk shearlings - £130 (x2) Catslackburn.
Suffolk x Texel shearlings - £120 Kinning Hall.
[2004 report]
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