St Boswells Primestock Sale

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

Sold 81 Clean Cattle, 50 Cast Cows, 927 Prime Hoggs and 368 Cast Sheep

Bullocks (20) averaged 245p per kg and sold to 282p   

Heifers (60) averaged 260.6p per kg and sold to 300p

Young Bull (1) averaged 219p per kg and sold to 219p

Cast Cows (43) averaged 188p per kg and sold to 219p (+2p on the week) Top price £1763

Cast Bulls (7) averaged 172p per kg and sold to 217p. Top price £1857

Hoggs (927) averaged 247p per kg, (+2p on the week) £114 per head and sold to £149 for Texel Hoggs

Top price 368p per kg for Beltex Hoggs

Cast Sheep (368) averaged £108.34, and sold to £230 for a Texel Ewes

Heavy Ewes averaged £146, light ewes sold to £139 for North Country Cheviot Ewes, and averaged £96

PRIME CATTLE-

Good show of cattle forward, meeting a similar trade.

Bullocks per head: Whitrighill £1879.20, £1857.02, Middlethird £1793.60, Faughhill £1774.44, Smailholm Mains £1662.00, Shidlaw £1629.36, Willowford £1596.00.

Heifers per head: Whitrighill £1831.72, Whitsome West Newton £1774.80, Longnewton £1763.20, Bee Edge £1758.00, £1740.42, £1740.00, Longnewton £1722.00, Traprain £1636.60, Butchercote £1601.60, Nisbet £1535.76, Galagate £1494.00

Young Bull per head: Wedderlie £1668.78

Bullocks per kilo: Shidlaw 279p Worsley Wholesale Butchers, Faughhill 279p Hugh Black & Sons Ltd, Smailholm Mains 265p Worsley Wholesale Butchers.

Heifers per kilo: Bee Edge 300p (2), 295p (2) 293p Worsley Wholesale Butchers, Longnewton 291p Worsley Wholesale Butchers, Bee Edge 288p Briggsy’s Butchers, Jedburgh, Butchercote 280p Michael Malone of Edinburgh Ltd

Young Bull per kilo: Wedderlie 219p Worsley Wholesale Butchers

CAST COWS

An electric trade witnessed for all classes with numbers well short of buyer’s requirements.

Cast Cows per head:

Shidlaw £1763.00, Hyndsidehill £1705.02, Whitriggs £1647.00, Wester Middleton £1571.70, Hyndsidehill £1558.06, Ecclaw £1550.92, Butchercote £1502.20

Cast Cows per kilo: Caverton Mill 219p, Whitrighill 217p, Hyndsidehill 217p Whitrighill 215p,211p, Shidlaw 205p

Cast Bulls per head: Upper Chatto £1857.40, £1571.70, West Newbiggan £1501.64, £1457.28

Cast Bulls per kilo: West Newbiggan 217p, 207p, 189p, Upper Chatto 185p.

PRIME SHEEP

Very mixed show forward, with plenty weight. Average 247p per kg (45.7kgs) £114.

Hoggs per head-

Texel: £149 Hutlerburn, £148 Woodlands, £141 Waterside, £140 Craiglea, £135 Waterside, £133 Threepwood, £132 Waterside, Threepwood, £130 North Sorrowlessfield, Lylestane, Watersid, £128 (2) Waterside, £125 Waterside. Beltex: £145 Lylestane, £144 Waterside, £140 Faughhill, £138 Waterside, £135 Waterside, £132 (2) Waterside, £130 (2) Lylestane. Zwartable: £146 Woodlands, £124 Woodlands. North Country Cheviot: £141 Adderstonshiels, £123 Boreland, Adderstonshiels (2), £121.50 (2) Saughtree, Waterside, £120 Broachrigg, Saughtree. Suffolk: £138.50 Waterside, £133 Waterside, £130 (3) Waterside, £128.50 Waterside, £127 Waterside, £125 (7) Waterside Cheviot Mule: £132 Waterside, £130 New Blainslie, £119 New Blainslie Bluefaced Leicester: £122, Threepwood Cottage. Blackface: £119.50 Tollishill, £114.50 Blakehope, £114 Borthwickshiels, Hutlerburn. Kerry Hill: £116 Borthwickshiels Greyfaced: £115 Huntershall.

Hoggs per kilo-

Beltex: 368.4p Faughhill, 329.3p Waterside, 328.6p Waterside, 313p Waterside, 307p (2) Waterside, 300p Lylestane, 295.5pp (2) Lylestane North Country Cheviot: 297.5p Boreland, 292.7p Broachrigg, 275p Lylestane, 270.2p Lylestane, 270p Lylestane Texel: 295.2p Swinnie, 295.00 New Blainslie, 292.7p Swinnie, 287.1p Whitrighill, 285.7p Whitrighill, 283.3p Whitrighill, 280p Thorneydykes, 279p Broachrigg, 278.5p Lower Ashtrees, 275.9p Swinnie, 275.6p Swinnie Cheviot Mule: 283.3p New Blainslie Suffolk: 282.1p Broachrigg, 270.5p New Blainslie Zwartable: 261p Woodlands Greyfaced: 253.3p Huntershall

CAST SHEEP

A fast trade witnessed throughout for all classes of cast sheep with a very mixed show forward.

Sale topped at £230 with a smart Texel from June Scott, Grey Peel whilst cast tups sold to a height of £199 for a pair of fleshy Texel tups from Huntershall.

Whilst a run of powerful Blackface ewes from A P Clark & Son, Blakehope caught the eye selling to a peak of £133!

Texel: £230 June Scott, Grey Peel, £189 Hardy-Bishop, Grey Peel, £183 Craiglea, £180 June Scott, Grey Peel, £177 Shepherd’s Cottage (Lamb), £169 Hardy-Bishop, Grey Peel, £161 Faughhill Beltex: £199 Faughhill, £175 Faughhill, £165 Faughhill Suffolk: £186 Shepherd’s Cottage (Lamb), £177 Ecclaw, £163 Shepherd’s Cottage (Lamb), Ecclaw, £149 New Blainslie, H & M Farms, £139 Ecclaw, £131 Lanton Crag, Currie Inn, Ecclaw Bluefaced Leicester: £173 Hutlerburn, £139 Burnhead. Halfbred: £169 Oxmuir, £155 Shepherd’s Cottage (Lamb), £147 Shepherd’s Cottage (Lamb) Blue Texel: £157 Adderstonshiels Cottage Zwartable: £151 Cakemuir Cheviot Mule: £147 Southfield, £129 Boreland, £125 Southfield Greyfaced: £143 Hutlerburn, £141 Faughhill, £139 Crailing Nook, £137 Huntershall, Ecclaw, £135 Ecclaw, Lanton Crag, £131 Oxmuir, £127 Oxmuir North Country Cheviot: £139 Nisbet Mill, £135 Newmains, £127 Boreland, £125 Adderstonshiels, £119 Boreland, £115 Newmains Blackface: £133, £129, £127, £115, £113 Blakehope, £109 Huntershall £105 Outerston Hill, £105 Blakehope EasyCare: £111, £103 Bankhouse.

RAMS

Texel: £199 Huntershall, £197 Threepwood, £187 Huntershall, £175 Threepwood Bluefaced Leicester: £187 Threepwood Suffolk: £173 Hutlerburn Charollais: £169 Threepwood Blackface: £119 Halterburnhead, £117 Hutlerburn.