Kirkby Stephen Prime Sheep Sale

Harrison & Hetherington Ltd, Kirkby Stephen Mart held their weekly sale of prime sheep on Tuesday night, when 5,002 sheep were forward consisting of 64 spring lambs, 4,431 prime hoggs and 507 cast sheep.

Topping the sale at £260 were a pen of three 50kg Beltex cross hoggs from Stuart Wood, Aberdeenshire.

With another pen of four 51kg Beltex cross hoggs sold for £240 and the fourteen hoggs from this home averaging 46kg £215 (466.6p/kg).

Topping at 539.5p/kg were a pen of three 38kg Beltex cross hoggs which sold for £205 from Messrs Dent, Elm House, Bolton.

Messrs Mason, East Farm, Malton sold a pen of thirteen 45kg hoggs to make £210.50, with another pen of sixteen 46kg selling for £208.50 and a pen of twenty-one 42kg hoggs making £205.50 all from East Farm. The consignment of 170 hoggs from this home sold to average 44.5kg £193.58

Messrs Phillips, Fir Tree Farm, Harrogate sold a pen of twelve 39kg Beltex cross hoggs to make £194.50 (498.7p/kg) with a pen of twenty 38kg hoggs making £189.50 (498.7p/kg) and a pen of fourteen 39kg hoggs making £192.50 (493.6p/kg) all from this home.

Messrs Batty, Cobble Croft, Wigton sold a pen of three 40kg Dutch Texel cross hoggs to make £206 (515p/kg)

38kg Beltex cross hoggs sold to £194 (510.5p/kg) from Messrs Dent, Elm House.

An unbelievable SQQ average of 322.66p/kg and overall sale average of 290.45p/kg and £132.35 for 4,431 hoggs was achieved with this average including 2,274 heavy and over weight hoggs and over 900 horned and mule hoggs.

The Easter Spring Lamb show was held which saw a great turnout of 64 lambs put in front of our judge Mr Will Birkbeck, Castle Hill, Soulby who awarded the overall championship to the first placed Texel cross lamb weighing 44kg and selling for £210 from Messrs Beveridge, Low West House, Bishop Auckland.

Champion - Annie & Mary Stones For Jameson (Sponsors) Ben Cowton for NG Beveridge (Consignor) and Will Birkbeck (Judge)

The reserve overall champion lamb was a 43kg Suffolk cross which also sold for £210 from Messrs Stainthorpe, Low Grange Farm, Cleveland.

Reserve Champion – Mary & Annie Stones for Jameson (Sponsors) & Will Birkbeck Judge.

The pre sale show was kindly sponsored by WE Jameson & Son, Masham and the following awards were made

Beltex

1^st NG Beveridge, Low West House 40kg £182
2^nd NG Beveridge, Low West House 32kg £144
3^rd NG Beveridge, Low West House 30kg £129

Texel
1^st & Champion NG Beveridge, Low West House 44kg £210
2^nd D Stainthorpe, Low Grange Farm 49kg £172
3^rd JK Slee, Street House 36kg £130

Suffolk
1^st & Reserve Champion D Stainthorpe, Low Grange Farm 43kg £210
2^nd TA Greensit & Sons, Friars Garth 48kg £146
3^rd TA Greensit & Sons, Friars Garth 48kg £142

Any other breed
1^st NG Beveridge, Low West House (Blue Texel) 41kg £181
2^nd NG Beveridge, Low West House (Blue Texel) 43kg £178
3^rd TA Greensit & Sons, Friars Garth (Charollais) 49kg £140   

64 spring lambs achieved an SQQ average of 344.5p/kg and an overall average of 315p/kg and £140.

Mule hoggs topped at £128.50 for a pen of twenty-two from Messrs Graham, Dalbrack Farm, Brechin

Messrs Smith, Kelmore Hill Farm, Workington sold a pen of twenty seven Mule hoggs weighing 47kg to make £125.

Messrs Birkbeck, Castle Hill sold 42kg Mules to make £114 271.4p/kg.

Messrs Johnson, Oakfield Grange, Lincoln sold a pen of 45kg Mule hoggs to make £122 271.1p/kg.

Blackfaced hoggs sold to £127 for a pen of twenty-seven 51kg hoggs from Messrs Fisher, Smalmstown Farm, Longtown.

Messrs Fisher also topped at 278.4p/kg for a pen for twenty-seven 44kg Blackfaced hoggs which made £122.50.

Glen Ogle Farms, Perthshire sold two pens of thirty Blackfaced hoggs weighing 41kg to make £114 (278p/kg)

Messrs Birkbeck, Castle Hill also sold a pen of 41kg Blackfaced hoggs to make £114 (278p/kg)

Messrs Hutchinson, Redgate, Rookby sold a pen of ten 42kg Hill Cheviot hoggs to make £122 (290.5p/kg)

Swaledale hoggs topped at £123 for a pen of forty from Messrs Graham, Dalbrack Farm, Brechin.

Swaledale hoggs also topped at 264.8p/kg for a pen of thirteen 44kg hoggs which made £116.50 from Messrs Carrick, Weardale.

6 pens and 15 hoggs sold between 500p/kg & 539.5p/kg

81 pens and 593 hoggs sold between 400p/kg & 539.5p/kg

10 pens and 66 hoggs sold between £200 & £260

56 pens and 379 hoggs sold between £180 & £260

Cast sheep were another flying trade topping at £250 for a Texel cross ewe from Messrs Lee, Carkin Moor Farm, Richmond.

Beltex cross ewes sold to £208 from Messrs Peile, Parkgate Hall, Wigton.

Suffolk cross ewes sold to £206.50 from Dan Stainthorpe, Cleveland.

Rough Fell ewes sold to £125.50 for a pen of six from Mr R Steadman, Ellergill Farm, Gaisgill.

Swaledale ewes sold to £110 for a pen of three from Messrs Slack, Stoneriggs, Hilton.

Leading Consignment Averages (Hoggs)
No.          Weight    p/kg        Head         From
14    @    46kg       466.6p    £215.00    Mr S Wood, Aberdeenshire
170  @    44.5kg    433.2p    £193.14    JP Mason & Sons, Malton
67    @    41.5kg    442.4p    £183.77    JM Andrews, York
133  @    39kg       448.8p    £175.33    RL&AR Phillips, Harrogate
44    @    38kg       450.7p    £171.48    D&H Batty, Wigton
36    @    50.56kg  334.2p    £168.99    W Robshaw & Son, Tadcaster
66    @    39.8kg    414.1p    £164.97    PW Simpson, Wigglesworth
18    @    44.8kg    353.7p    £158.58    MTP&SD Wills, Dufton
204  @    45.4kg    345.8p    £157.09    R Skelton, Maryport
215  @    48.1kg    321.3p    £154.73    JB Thompson, Grantham
27    @    42.2kg    363p       £153.43    M/s Somerville, Penrith
59    @    36.63kg  418.6p    £153.35    M/s Dent, Bolton
78    @    41.83kg  335p      £152.79    D Stainthorpe, Cleveland

Leading Prices –

Prime Hoggs

Price per head –

Beltex £260, £240, £192, £190 Broadwater; £210.50, £208.50, £205.50, £201, £198.50, £198, £192.50, £188.50, £186.50, £184.50(2) East Farm; £205, £194, £185.50, £180.50 Elm House; £200, £194.50, £193.50, £192.50, £189.50, £184.50, £184 Fir Tree Farm; £198.50, £193.50, £188.50, £187.50, £186.50, £180 Boscar Flats;  £197.50, £192.50 Beck House Farm; £195, £192.50, £190, £186.50, £185.50(2), £181.50 Newhall Farm; £195 Town Farm; £193.50, £190.50 Fawcett Park Farm; £190.50 West Hale Farm; £186.50 Pasture House Farm; £186.50 Little Eccleston Hall; £185.50 Newton Farm; £185 Parkgate Hall; £183.50 Highscale Farm; £180.50 Aspatria Hall: Dutch Texel £208, £206, £197.50, £183.50, £175.50, £173.50, £157.50(2), £154.50 Cobble Croft: Suffolk £135 Newhall Farm; £133.50, £130.50, £125 Dalbrack Farm; £128.50 Oakfield Grange; £128, £127, £126.50, £125(3) Boghall; £126 Smalmstown Farm; £125 Low House Farm; £125 Redcap Farm: Charollais £129 Castle Hill; £125 Southfield; £120 Little Langton Grange: Mule £128.50 Dalbrack Farm; £125, £123 Kelmore Hill Farm; £123.50 Ireshope Plains; £122.50, £122 Oakfield Grange; £122 Ellergill; £122, £121.50 Stanger Hill; £121 Pasture House Farm; £120 Newton Farm; £120 Town End Farm; £120 Southfield: Texel £182.50, £143.50 Low Grange Farm; £168 Kelmore Hill; £158.50, £144, £142, £140 Stainby House; £157.50, £154.50, £152.50, £142 Newhall Farm; £156.50 Fir Tree Farm; £150 Town Farm; £147.50, £146.50, £142.50 Copperthorns; £145.50 Little Langton Grange; £145, £140 Beck House Farm; £145 Southfields; £144, £141.50 Stanger Hill; £144 Aspatria Hall; £141 Town End Farm: Scotch Blackface £127, £126, £124, £123.50(2), £123, £122.50 Smalmstown Farm; £121 Newton Farm: Cheviot £126, £124, £121.50 Little Eccleston Hall, £125.50 Ireshope Plains; £125, £124 Low House Farm; £124.50 Preston Manor; £124, £123.50, £122, £121 Redgate; £123.50 Smalmstown Farm; £120.50 Westwick Farm: Swaledale £123, £118(2) Dalbrack; £120 Fawcett Park; £118, £102.50 Easterbeck House; £116.50 Ireshope Plains; £115 Valley Farm; £109.50 Gold Hill Farm: Bluefaced Leicester £120 Gillses Farm: Rough £106 Crooksbeck; £101(2) Manor Court: Hampshire £102.50 Little Langton Grange: Herdwick £83.50 Pasture House.

Price Per kilo –

Beltex 539.5p, 510.5p, 488.2p, 455.4p, 440.2p Elm House; 520p, 470.6p, 456.4p, 452.4p, 426.7p Broadwater; 498.7p(2), 493.6p, 472p, 461.3p, 459.5p, 455.4p(2), 438.1p Fir Tree Farm; 490.8p Pasture House Farm; 489.3p, 484.1p, 467.8p, 453.3p, 430.4p East Farm; 475.6p, 458.3p, 432.1p, 431.4p Newhall Farm; 461.6p, 460.7p, 454.9p, 448.8p, 436p, 435.4p, 421.3p Boscar Flats; 458.8p, 436.5p, 421.3p Highscale Farm; 450p Lansmere; 448.9p, 427.8p Beck House Farm; 443p, 439.8p, 425p Fawcett Park Farm; 443.2p Town Farm; 437.8p Low Grange Farm; 433p West Hale Farm; 433.7p Little Eccleston Hall; 432.1p Windygate; 431.4p, 420.2p Newton Farm: Dutch Texel 515p, 507.3pm 506.4p, 482.9p, 461.8p, 437.5p, 433.8p, 425p, 414.5p Cobble Croft: Texel 445.1p, 318.9p Low Grange Farm; 401.3p Fir Tree Farm; 357.7p West Hale Farm; 357.4p Kelmore Hill Farm; 351.3p, 317.4p Windygate; 351.2p, 325.6p, 309.8p Copperthorns; 351.2p, 321.6p Stanger Hill; 343.3p, 342.4p, 331.5p, 302.1p Newhall Farm; 338.4p Little Langton Grange; 330.5p, 317.9p, 315p, 306.1p, 305.6p, 303.5p Newton Farm; 319.2p, 313.8p Castle Hill; 305.3p Redgate Farm: Blue Texel 292.3p Newton Farm: Cheviot 290.5p, 281.4p Redgate; 286.3p Preston Manor; 281.8p, 277.8p Low House Farm; 278.2p Boghall: Suffolk 282.9p Preston Manor; 275.6p Pasture House Farm; 275.6p Home Farm; 269.8p Clifton Hill Gardens; 267.8p Friars Garth; 267.4p Westfield House Farm; 267.4p Briggle: Scotch Blackface 278.4p, 276.7p Smalmstown Farm; 278p(2), 271.4p Glen Ogle Farm; 278p Castle Hill; 276.2p Ireshope Plains; 270.9p Preston Manor: Mule 271.4p castle Hill; 271.1p, 250p Oakfield Grange; 268.3p Boghall; 266p Kelmore Hill Farm; 265.6p Preston Manor; 265.2p Ellergill; 262.8p Ireshope Plains; 259.6p Stanger Hill; 251.1p Pasture House Farm: Kerry Hill 270p Pasture House Farm: Swaledale 264.8p Ireshope Plains; 262.2p, 244p Easterbeck House; 251.6p Palliard; 250p Pasture House Farm; 250p, 243.3p Gold Hill Farm; 240p Fawcett Park Farm: Charollais 260.9p Little Langton Grange: Herdwick 253p Pasture House Farm: Hampdhire 244p Little Langton Grange: Rough 234.9p Manor Court.

Cast Ewes

Texel £250 Carkin Moor; 225 Low Grange Farm; £200 Sideway Bank; £200, £190, £170 Helbeck Farm, £200, £196.50 Carkin Moor; £198.50 Westwick Farm; £190 Street House; £190 Dry Evers; £186.50 Castle Hill; £185 Aspatria Hall; £174.50 West Hale Farm; £172.50 Sawbridge Hall; £170 Town Farm: Beltex £208 Parkgate Hall; £200, £150 Carkin Moor Farm: Suffolk £206.50 Low Grange Farm; £202 Clifton Hill Gardens; £198.50 Castle Hill; £179.50 Pinewood Heights; £160, £155, £150 Nixon Terrace; £158 Redcap Farm: Bluefaced Leicester £170 Bollihope Shield Farm; £166.50 Eden Flatt; £162.50 Westwick Farm: Rough £125.50, £94 Ellergill: Mule £125 Eden Flatt; £120.50 Southfield; £116 Fountain Head; £116 Row End Farm; £116 Martindale(Robinson): Cheviot £118 Martindasle(Wearmouth); £112 Southfields; £110 Westwick Farm; £105.50 Highfield Farm: Scotch Blackface £110, £84.50 Roundthwaite Abbey: Swaledale £110 Stoneriggs; £109 Southfields; £108, £104 Holly Cottage; £102 Helbeck Farm; £100 Whitestones; £100 Highfield House; £98 Gillses Farm; £93.50 Wat Garth; £92.50 Ireshope Plains: Herdwick £100, £83.50, £80 Nixon Terrace: Lleyn £95 Woodfoot:

Cast Rams

Texel £196.50 Town Farm; £195 Helbeck Farm; £185 Street House; £185 Avondale; £170.50 South Wellhope: Beltex £150.50 Avondale: Rough £120 Manor Court: Swaledale £100, £90 Ellergill.

Spring lambs

Price per head

Texel £210, £180, £178, £174 Low West House; £172 Low Grange Farm; £168 Street House: Suffolk £210 Low Grange Farm; £146, £142, £138, £137, £136(2), £133.50, £133 Friars Garth: Beltex £182, £144 Low West House: Blue Texel £181, £178 Low West House: Charollais £140 Friars Garth: Zwartble £125 Avondale.

Spring lambs

Price per kilo

Suffolk 488.4p Low Grange Farm; 304.2p, 295.8p, 286.4p, 285.7p Friars Garth: Texel 477.3p, 423.8p, 386.7p, 383p Low West House; 442.1p, 361.1p Street House; 351p Low Grange Farm: Beltex 455p, 450, 430p Low West House: Blue Texel 441.5p, 414p Low West House: Charollais 285.7p Friars Garth: Zwartble 282.9p Avondale.