St Boswells Primestock Sale

Sold 1912 Prime Lambs and 231  Cast Sheep

Lambs (1912) averaged 243.5p per kilo ( SQQ 251.5p), £111.20 per head (45.8kgs) and sold to £150 per head for Suffolks

Top price 311p per kg for Beltex Lambs

Cast Sheep (231) averaged £105.53, and sold to £193 for Texels

Heavy Ewes averaged £123, light ewes sold to £123 for North Country Cheviot Ewes , and averaged £75

PRIME LAMBS: 

Best quality easily sold with export type lambs keenly bid for.

Lambs per head –Suffolk: £150 Ruecastle Cottages (N.Sandilands), £133 Corsbie, £132, £131 Skilmafilly, £128 Symington Mains, Skilmafilly, Corsbie, Haltree; Texel: £145 Symington Mains, £140 Headshaw, Lauder, Corsbie, £137, £134 Corsbie(2), £134, £133 Skilmafilly, £130 Symington Mains, Halidean Mill;  Beltex: £140 Ruecastle Cottages (N.Sandilands)£130 Wester Ulston (3), Halidean Mill, £128 Faughhill, Greyfaced: £120, £115 (2) Blakehope; £110 Headshaw, Lauder; Half Bred: £116 Headshaw, Lauder, £110 Bonjedward; Cheviot Mule: £120 Kingside, £112 Adderstonshiels, £110.50 Wester Ulston (2), Cheviot: £115 Kingside, Saughtree, Haltree, £110 Symington Mains, Hampshire: £112 Threepwood; Charollais: £107, £106.50 Bromiebank; Blackface: £108, £105 Roxburgh Mill

Lambs per kilo – Beltex: 311.1p Ruecastle Cottages (N.Sandilands), 295.5p Wester Ulston, 285.7p, 282.6p Halidean Mill, 281.3p Faughhill, 277.8p Threepwood, 276.6p Wester Ulston, 275.6p Faughhill; Charollais: 259.8p, 248.8p Broomiebank; Suffolk: 257.8p Broomilees, 257.1p Woodside, 253.8p Skilmafilly, 251.9p Woodside, 251p Corsbie, 250p Threepwood, Headshaw, Lauder: Texel: 268p Corsbie, 267.4p Threepwood, 265.3p New Channelkirk, 265.1p Ballencrieff Mains, 265p Broomilees, 264.6p Broomiebank, 263.8p Newton, 263.5p Corsbie, 263.4p New Channelkirk 263.2p Symington Mains; Cheviot Mule: 257p, 251.1p Wester Ulston, Cheviot: 255.3p Woodside, 251.2p Haltree, 249p Woodside, 246.5p Birneyknowe, 246.4p Faughhill, 246p Kingside; Blackface: 241.3p, 233.3p Roxburgh Mill, Greyfaced: 235.2p, 234.8p Blakehope, 234p Headshaw, Lauder, 233.3p, 232.6p Broomilees,  232.6p Blakehope, Hampshire: 238.3p Threepwood; Half Bred: 234.4p Bonjedward, 232p Headshaw, Lauder

EWES: Cast Sheep ended 2022 on a flyer as all classes sold to a solid trade throughout.

Sale top of £193 for a Texel.x Ewe from W.Murray (Farming), Redden.

Texel: £193 Redden, £181 Crailing Nook, £165 Old Melrose, £149 Redden; Beltex: £163 Redden, £151 West Lodge South; Suffolk: £157 Ecclaw, £147 Thornington, New Blainslie, £141 Bonjedward, £139 Thornington, £137 Old Melrose, Ecclaw, £131 Mossilee; Cheviot Mule: £121 Thornington; Cheviot: £123 Whitehill, £115 Redden, £109 Whitehill, £107 Skilmafilly, £95 Woodside, Adderstonshiels; Half Bred: £117, £115 Bonjedward; Greyfaced: £117 Thornington, £110, £109 Brockielaw, £107 Ecclaw, Redden, Thornington, Mossilee, Burncastle; Charollais: £111 West Lodge South; Blackface: £83 Berryhill, £77 Burncastle; Kerryhill: £80 Whitehill;

RAMS: Texel: £139 Brockielaw, £101 Langraw; Blackface: £111 Middle Moneynut