Lleyn Sale of Rams & Females

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 3^rd 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