Kirkby Stephen Store Sheep

Harrison & Hetherington Ltd held their fortnightly sale of store lambs on Tuesday evening, where 490 store lambs were on offer.

Topping the sale at £110 were a pen of five Texel cross lambs from Messrs Thexton, Castlethwaite, Mallerstang.

Messrs Atkinson, Brackenthwaite Farm, Appleby sold a pen of Texel cross lambs to make £101.

Mr Hutchinson, Old Spital Farm, Barnard Castle sold a pen of eleven Beltex cross lambs to make £100, with another pen of fifteen Dutch Spotted lambs making £100 also from this home.

All classes and breeds of store lambs were dearer with an overall sale average of £82.47 being achieved for predominantly long to medium keep sized lambs being forward.

Many more store lambs could have been sold to a very strong demand!

Our next sale being on the 26^th September.

Leading Prices:

Texel £110, £99 Castlethwaite; £101 Brackenthwaite Farm; £99, £91 Old Spital Farm; £96, £84 Birks Farm; £898 Haithwaite; £88 Brackenthwaite Farm; £86 Nova Scotia; £83 Alma Cottage; £82 Bank Cottage: Beltex £100 Old Spital Farm: Dutch Spotted £100 Old Spital Farm: Suffolk £95, £89 Clifton Hill Gardens: Cheviot £79 Alma Cottage; £75 Birks Farm: Mule £78 Haithwaite; £74 Birks Farm; £74 Whitewall Farm: Badger Face £53 Alma Cottage: Blackface £52 Bank Cottage: