St Boswells Primestock Sale

At St Boswells on Monday 28^th February, Harrison & Hetherington held their weekly Prime stock sale of cattle and sheep

Sold 73 Clean Cattle, 62 Cast Cows, 1627 Prime Hoggs and   630 Cast Sheep

Bullocks (19) averaged 245p per kg and sold to 272p (x2) (n/c on the week) 

Heifers (50) averaged 263p per kg and sold to 300p    ( n/c on the week)

Young Bulls (4) averaged 200p per kg and sold to 232p

Cast Cows (62) averaged 173p per kg and sold to 225p (n/c  on the week) Top price £1962

Hoggs (1627) averaged 250p per kg, (-5p on the week) £114 per head and sold to £141 for Beltex Hoggs

Top price 306p per kg for Beltex Hoggs

Cast Sheep  averaged £99.66, and sold to £161 for Bluefaced Leicesters

Heavy Ewes averaged £138, light ewes sold to £133 for North Country Cheviot Ewes, and averaged £89.50

PRIME CATTLE- In high demand with all classes well bid for.

Bullocks per head: Standhill £1718.36, Penston £1651.20, Nisbet £1649.44, Smailholm Mains £1647.30, Galagate £1637.44, Corsbie £1635.14

Heifers per head: Bee Edge £1793.96, Longnewton £1774.16, Whitrighill £1752.24, Bee Edge £1722, Whitrighill £1700.16, Nisbet £1695.10

Bullocks per kilo: Galagate 272p Worsley Wholesale Butchers, Faughhill 272p Michael Malone of Edinburgh, Standhill 266p S.I Carlisle & Co, Penston 258p Hugh Black & Sons, Standhill 256p Worsley Wholesale Butchers, Smailholm Mains 255p Hugh Black & Sons Ltd

Heifers per kilo: Bee Edge 300p Forsyths of Peebles, 298p Worsley Wholesale Butchers, Lennoxlove 294p Foley Bros, Whitrighill 294p Worsley Wholesale Butchers,  Lylestane 286p Worsley Wholesale Butchers, Bee Edge 286p Worsley Wholesale Butchers

Young Bulls per head: Attonburn £1662.84, £1509.32

Young Bulls per kilo: Huntington 232p

CAST COWS

Very fast trade

Cast Cows per head: Kersknowe £1962.14, Mosstower £1719, £1692.90, Wester Middleton £1653.96, Hyndsidehill £1621.32, Northfield £1615.64

Cast Cows per kilo: Mosstower 225p, 209p, Sydenham 204p, Kersknowe 199p, Corsbie, Huntington 195p, Mosstower 194p

PRIME SHEEP

More numbers with a mixed heavy show forward.  Average 250p (45.6kgs) £114

Hoggs per head- Beltex: £141, £140 Oxnam Neuk, £140, £132, £131 (2) Faughhill, £130 Oxnam Neuk, Boghall, £126 Faughhill, £122.50 Lylestane, £120 Oxnam Neuk, Texel: £140 Wantonwalls, £137 Buckholm, £135 Bonjedward (2), Wantonwalls (2), £132 Threepwood, Corsbie, £131 Bonjedward, £130 Buckholm, £129 (2) Threepwood,  £127 Cortleferry, £125 (2)Whitrighill, Threepwood, Bonjedward, £124 Langraw, Bonjedward, £122 Bonjedward, Suffolk: £133, £132 Boghall, £132 (2) Bonjedward, £130 Headshaw, L, Thorlieshope, £126.50, £126, £124(2), £122(2), £120(2),  Boghall, £120 Headshaw, L, Blackface: £120 (2), £117 (2) Blakehope, Zwartble: £119 Cakemuir, Dorset: £119 Cheeklaw, Half Bred: £118 Bonjedward, Cheviot Mule: £117 Adderstonshiels, North Country Cheviot: £115 Crailinghall Cottages(A.Scott), £114 Bonjedward, Earlston Rd, Stow (S.Anderson), Greyfaced: £114.50 Boghall, £112.50 Tollilshill

Hoggs per kilo- Beltex: 306.3p Lylestane, 302.3p Boghall, 300p Faughhill(2), Oxnam Neuk, 297.9p Oxnam Neuk, 294.9p Lylestane, 284.8p Faughhill, 276.6p Oxnam Neuk, Texel: 300p Threepwood, 294.9p Holydean, 287.8p New Blainslie, 284.6p Holydean, 280.5p Blackburn Mill, 280p Lylestane (2), 279.5p Woodhouse, 276.5p Swinnie, 276.3p Holydean, 276.2p Woodhouse, 274.5p Threepwood (2), 273.8p Boghall, 273.2p New Blainslie, 272.7p Threepwood, Lylestane, 271.7p Bonjedward, 271.4p Blackburn Mill, 271.3p Cheeklaw, North Country Cheviot: 278p Bonjedward, 272.5p Lylestane, 270.7p Headshaw, L, 269.1p Lylestane, 268.3p Kirklands, A, 267.4p Crailinghall Cottages, 266.7p Kirklands, A, 265.1p Shotton, 262.5p Woodside, Suffolk: 270p, 266.7p Holydean, 264.4p, 262.8p Boghall, 262.5p Langraw, 260.9p Boghall, 260.5p Woodside, Blackface: 263.4p(2), 256.4p Blakehope, Greyfaced: 260p Buckholm

CAST SHEEP A mixed show of Cast Sheep forward with all classes selling to a dearer trade as numbers tighten throughout the country.

Sale peak of £161 for a powerful pen of Bluefaced Leicesters from Jack Kay & Sons, Hartside Farms

Cast Tups sold to a summit of £153 for a Texel from James Anderson & Son, Headshaw, Lauder

Bluefaced Leicester: £161, £145 Hartside, Texel: £155 Oxnam Neuk, £147 Faughhill, £143 Bonjedward, £139 Corsbie, £137 Wester Wooden, New Blainslie, £135 Whinfield, £133 Cheeklaw, £131 Whinfield, Myreside, Suffolk: £155 Bonjedward, £153 Wester Wooden, Zwartble: £151 Oxnam Neuk, Half Bred: £145 Blackhill, C, £141, £137 Bonjedward,  Blackburn Mill, £121 Blackhill, C, Dorset: £139 Crailinghall Cottages,  Cheviot Mule: £137 Woodside, £123 Nisbet Mill, North Country Cheviot: £133, £131 Adderstonshiels, £127 Kirktonhill, £117 Crailinghall Cottages, Adderstonshiels, Beltex: £131 Oxnam Neuk, Blackface: £129 Blakehope, £113 Kirktonhill, £109 Whitehope, £101 Blakehope, £95 Outerston, Greyfaced: £125 Crailing Nook, £123 Corsbie, £119 Cheeklaw, Heriot Mill, Kirktonhill, £115 Holydean, £113 Nether Kidston, Kerryhill: £87 Wester Wooden, Shetland: £45 Walterstead Farm Cottage (A.MacKinnon)

RAMS- Texel: £153 Headshaw, L, £135 Burncastle, £131 Woodhouse, £129 Langraw, Easycare: £113 Girrick,  North Country Cheviot: £113 Saughtree, £111 Woodside, Blackface: £105, £97 Burncastle.