Kirkby Stephen Prime Sheep Sale - Hoggs & Cast Sheep

Harrison & Hetherington Ltd, Kirkby Stephen Mart held their weekly Sale of prime sheep on Tuesday night, when 3,504 sheep were forward consisting of 403 spring lambs, 2,536 prime hoggs and 565 cast sheep.

Topping the prime hogg at £200 was a Texel cross hogg from Messrs Hetherington, Old Hall Farm, Penrith.

Topping at 458.3p/kg was a pen of 36kg Beltex cross hoggs which sold for £165 from Jojo Andrews, Boscar Flats, York.

This same home also sold a pen of twelve 42kg hoggs to make £180 (428.6p/kg) and a pen of fifteen 40kg hoggs to make £168 (420p/kg), and a pen of sixteen 47kg Texel cross hoggs making £184 (391.5p/kg) also from Boscar Flats.

Heavy hoggs sold to great premiums here at Kirkby Stephen, with 68kg Texel crosses making £196, two pen of twelve Texel cross hoggs making £195 a pen of seventeen 69kg hoggs, and a pen of sixteen 65kg hoggs both making £191. The consignment of 150 hoggs from Old Hall Farm sold to average 69kg £190.55.

Jojo Andrews sold a pen of 54kg Beltex cross hoggs to make £190, with a pen of eleven 52kg hoggs making £180 (346.2p/kg)

Hill cheviot hoggs topped at £163 for three pens of twelve 62kg and 61kg hoggs from Messrs Smithson, Bloan Farm, Brough Sowerby. Cheviot hoggs also topped at 325.5p/kg for a pen of fifteen 47kg hoggs which made £153 from Messrs Fisher, Smalmstown Farm.

Blackfaced hoggs topped at £157 for a pen of twenty five £157 for a pen of twenty five 50kg hoggs from Messrs Fisher, Smalmstown Farm, Longtown. Another pen of twenty five 49kg Blackfaced hoggs sold to male £155.

A pen of thirty 46kg Blackfaced hoggs sold to make £152.50 and 331.5p/kg, with another two pens of thirty 46kg Blackfaced hoggs making £151.50 and £150.50 (329.3p/kg and 327.2p/kg) also from Smalmstown Farm.

Suffolk cross hoggs sold to 318.8p/kg for a pen of twenty five 48kg hoggs which sold for £153 also from Smalmstown Farm.

An SQQ average of 302.76p/kg and an overall sale average of 300.77p/kg £140.46 was achieved.

Leading Hogg Averages

Leading Prices –
Prime Hoggs
Price Per head – Texel £200, £196, £195(2), £191(2), £190, £189, £188, £187, £185, £184 Old Hall Farm; £186(2), £180, £175, £174, £167.50, £166.50, £165, £160(2) Boscar Flats; £186, £180(3), £170, £163 Sunny Gill Farm; £180 Stanhope Gate Farm; £180(2), £165, £162, £160(2) Smalmstown Farm; £180 The Buildings Farm; £176, £170 Rookwith House; £174, £166 Kelmore Hill Farm; £170, £160 Home Farm; £170 Abbey Park; £166, £162 West Farm; £162 Helbeck Farm; £160 Coupland Beck Farm;  £160 Hallbankgate Farm; £160 Stoneriggs: Charollais £195 Old Hall Farm; £168 Home Farm: Beltex £190, £180(2), £168, £165 Boscar Flats; £186, £182, £175, £170(2), £160(3), £150(3) Rookwith House; £170(3), £162, £156, £150 Smalmstown Farm; £168.50, £162, £150 Ghyll House Farm; £165, £158 Home Farm; £163, £160 Sunny Gill Farm; £162(2), £160, £155, £154 Kelmore Hill Farm; £152 Elm House; £150 Woodfoot; £150 Sawbridge Hall; £150 New Hummerbecks Farm: Suffolk £177 Old Hall Farm; £166, £165, £164, £153 Smalmstown Farm; £160, £156 Williamsgill Farm; £152.50 Home Farm: Blue Texel £177 Rookwith House: Cheviot £163(3), £161.50 Bloan Farm; £162, £153 Smalmstown Farm: Scotch Blackface £157, £155, £152.50, £151.50, £150.50 Smalmstown Farm; £141 Boscar Flats: Zwartble £156 Home Farm: Bluefaced Leicester £150 Whitewall Farm: Mule £145.50 Middle Shipley Farm; £144.50 Smalmstown Farm; £129 Home Farm; £126 Kelmore Hill Farm: Swaledale £120, £116 High Stennerskeugh; £120 Helbeck Farm; £120 Ettersgill House; £120 Stanhope Gate Farm; £120 Easterbeck House; £117 West Summersides: Herdwick £106, £101 Middle Ridge Farm: Rough £97 Pasture House Farm; £96 Lockholme Hall.

Price per kilo – Beltex 458.3p, 428.6p, 420p, 351.9p Boscar Flats; 394.3p, 392.9p, 383.8p, 376.2p, 372.5p, 366.7p Home Farm; 389.7p, 376.4p, 368.4p, 362.5p Elm House; 381p, 358.1p, 350p Kelmore Hill; 377.8p, 376.7p Smalmstown Farm; 357.1p Woodfoot; 355.6p Rookwith House; 350p Woodfoot: Texel 391.5p, 358.5p, 351.1p, 346.2p, 343.8p, 322.1p, 320p Boscar Flats; 348.9p, 343p, 334.5p, 334.4p, 333.3p(3), 327.2p, 324.3p Home Farm; 341.3p, 336.2p, 328.3p, 326.5p, 324p, 322.9p, 320p Smalmstown Farm; 335.6p, 329.5p Kelmore Hill Farm; 320.8p Rookwith House: Blue Texel 333.3p Smalmstown Farm; 295p Rookwith House; 293.6p Auchentoul: Scotch Blackface 331.5p, 329.3p, 327.2p, 316.3p, 314p, 311.9p(2) Smalmstown Farm; 306.5p Boscar Flats; 305.3p Home Farm: Cheviot 325.5p, 315.2p Smalmstown Farm; 317.1p Home Farm; 291.4p Pasture House: Charollais 323.1p Home Farm; 291p Old Hall Farm: Suffolk 318.8p, 303.7p, 301.8p, 290p Smalmstown Farm; 317.7p Home Farm: Mule 286.7p Home Farm; 285.3p Middle Shipley Farm:   Zwartble 278.6p Home Farm: Welsh Mountain 269.4p Home Farm: Herdwick 265p, 259p, 254.3p, Middle Ridge Farm: Swaledale 254.3p West Summersides; 250p East Rackwood; 250p Easterbeck House: Rough 248.7p Pasture House Farm.