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Date: 01 September 2021 | Dairy Cattle

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Borderway Monthly Dairy Day

Borderway, Rosehill, Carlisle, CA1 2RS

Four Milkers Top At £2250 for September Sale 

The first sale to quick start the Autumn Dairy Sales at Borderway had just over 400 cattle change hands with Holstein, Ayrshire, British Friesian and Fleckviehs selling.  Trade topped at £2250 on four occasions with the milking heifers averaging £1767 with 28 animals selling for or more than £2000. 

Topping the Holstein heifer trade at £2250 was a perfect uddered heifers sired by AltaBookel consigned by Balcurvie Holsteins from Fife.  Balcurvie sold another 10 heifers to average £1930.

The Holstein cow trade topped at £2250 for Witherslack Delta-Lambda Martha consigned by Wayne Inman from Grange Over Sands.  This super young cow was bred from an Unix dam and was giving 45kgs.  Another four cows and heifers from this home averaged £1987.

A high quality group of amazing uddered and very milky Ayrshire heifers from the Stevenson family near Stranraer topped at £2250 to average £1855.  Selling for £2250 was Stevensons Bunty she was sired by Stevensons Prime Time.

The trade of the day was for a select group of British Friesians from the Nerewater Herd owned by the Bell family from near Wigton.  They averaged £2033 and topped at £2250 for Nerewater Gladlass who was fresh in her second and was sired by Nerewater Jackpot.

John Ballie from the Branchalburn Farm near Wishaw in Lanarkshire dispersed his well-bred Holstein herd following the sale of his dairy farm.  The milking cows and heifers averaged £1278 and topped at £2200 for a Marquis daughter, freshly calved in July.  Most of freshly calved heifers in this dispersal sold for £2000 or more and the cows topped at £2000 for a five-year-old cow that was freshly calved in her fourth.    

In-Calf heifers remain excellent value for money with many selling well below their true value.  89 Holstein In-Calf heifers averaged £1300 and topped at £1850 for a daughter of All.Nure Secretiat and was bred from a Supershot dam. She was consigned by the Barron family from Aberdeenshire who sold another 30 heifers to average £1445.

The sale finished with some excellent bulling heifers and heifer calves from the Branchalburn dispersal sale.  Bulling heifer topped at £1000 for a daughter of Rozzer born in April and heifer calves topped at £900 for a January born daughter of Bromley. 

The next dairy sale at Borderway takes place on Wednesday 8th September and features 233 Exceptional Pedigree Holstein cattle in the Warnelview sale.   An online version of this catalogue can be viewed at www.harrisonandhetherington.co.uk or can be ordered from the Pedigree Office 01228 406230

Averages

Freshly Calved Animals
91 Holstein heifers in milk                              £1767.29
16 Holstein cows in milk                                 £1871.42
10 Ayrshire heifers in milk                              £1855.55
3 British Friesian cows/heifers in milk            £2033.33
15 Faulted cows ¾                                         £863.57
15 Dry cows                                                    £1310.76

Branchalburn Farm Dispersal
88 Cows & heifers in milk                               £1278.18

Young Stock
89 Holstein in calf heifers/recently served     £1300.01
20 Fleckvieh Cross bred in calf heifers          £1299.00
20 Holstein bulling heifers                              £815.50
42 Heifer calves                                              £610.47

Averages

Leading Prices

Lot       Price               Purchaser

17        £2250              Messrs Lloyd, Crundale, Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire
64        £2250              Messrs Beard, Roweltown, Carlisle, Cumbria
186      £2250              Messrs Forsyth, Isle of Whithorn, Newton Stewart Wigtownshire

 

200      £2250              Messrs Martin, Bankend, Dumfries, Dumfriesshire
65        £2200              Messrs Beard, Roweltown, Carlisle, Cumbria
166      £2200              Messrs Hutton, Ayr, Ayrshire
212      £2200              Messrs Hutton, Ayr, Ayrshire
14        £2150              Messrs Green & Son, Lach Dennis, Northwich
91        £2120              Messrs Story, Longtown, Carlisle, Cumbria
19        £2100              Messrs Lloyd, Crundale, Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire
31        £2100              Messrs Nash, Leigh, Stoke, Staffordshire
63        £2100              Messrs Paton, Avonbridge, Falkirk, Stirlingshire
77        £2100              Messrs Lloyd, Crundale, Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire
188      £2100             Messrs Forsyth, Newton Stewart, Wigtownshire