Kirkby Stephen Store lamb Sale

Harrison & Hetherington Ltd Kirkby Stephen held their fortnightly sale of store lambs when a catalogued entry of 1,464 were on offer. 

Topping the sale at £182 was the first prize pen of ten Beltex cross lamb from Messrs Beveridge, Low West House Farm, Bishop Auckland, this home also had pens to £162, £161 and £160 and a further ten pens selling over £150, with the fantastic consignment of 231 Beltex and Texel store lambs from this home selling to average £141.87.

Messrs Brown, Catherine Holme, Great Asby sold a pair of Beltex lambs to £158.

Messrs Marston, Easegill Head, Kirkby Stephen sold Beltex cross lambs to £156 with this home topping the Texel lambs at £139.

Messrs Bayles, Haithwaite sold a pen of Beltex cross to make £154.

23 pens of lambs sold between £140 and £182

80 pens and 328 lambs sold between £130 and £182.

889 Beltex cross store lambs sold to average a whopping £124.07, with an overall sale average for all breeds of £112.06 being achieved!

Plenty more numbers of all types are needed and can be sold at ease to great advantage on a fortnightly basis here at Kirkby Stephen. 

Our next sale is on the 8^th October which includes a show for pens of ten Beltex cross store lambs, please advise of entries for the catalogue by Tuesday 1^st October. 

Tot Hds		Average	Vendor
231	@	£  141.87	MR N Beveridge, Bishop Auckland
15	@	£  138.00	P & E Chester, Kirkby Stephen
79	@	£  126.87	AJ & RE Marston, Kirkby Stephen
23	@	£  122.65	KD & DE Millar & Partners, Canonbie
137	@	£  122.14	B R Lawson & Son, Richmond
13	@	£  114.54	G Danby, St Helens
43	@	£  112.84	MR S Millman, Penrith
84	@	£  111.88	MESR GM & V Bayles, Richmond

Our pre-sale judging was kindly carried out by Mr Tom Hill and the show was kindly sponsored by the Northern Beltex club.

Show Results:

1^st – Mr N Beveridge, Bishop Auckland realising £182

2^nd – Mr N Beveridge, Bishop Auckland realising £144

3^rd – Mr N Beveridge, Bishop Auckland realising £150

Leading Prices: Beltex : £182, £162, £161, £160, £159, £152(2), £150(3), £146, £144(2), £140(2), £138(2), £136, £134(2), £131, £130(3) Low West House Farm; £158 Catherine Holme; £156, £141, £138, £135, £131 Easegill Head; £154, £134, £133, £130, Haithwaite, £140(3), £136, Buddle House, £138, Grassgill Lodge, £131(2) Crookholm Farm: Texel: £139, £136, £135, £130 Low West House Farm; £136 Prospect House; £135, £132, £130, £128, £127, £124 Buddle House; £126 Haithwaite;  £125, £111 Old Spital Farm; £123 Townend(Martin), £120, £110, £110 Yew House; £115 Ellergill(Steadman); £115, £112 Catherine Holme; £114 Intake Farm; £110 Scar Top: Suffolk: £123 Lower Leazes Farm, £108, £97 Town End Farm, £99(2) Catherine Holme; £98 Thorney Gale; £90 Little Musgrave Farm; £90 Gracies Farm: Dutch Spotted: £120, £109, £106 Old Spital Farm: Mule: £96 Thorney Gale, £94, Ellergill, £89, Blades Field Farm: Blue Texel: £94 Gracies Farm: Cheviot: £85 Catherine Holme; £70 New House Farm.