Date: 02 December 2024 | Primestock
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Sold 88 Clean Cattle, 100 Cast Cows, 2404 Prime Lambs, and 408 Cast Sheep
Bullocks (26) averaged 321p per kg and sold to 360p
Heifers (62) averaged 325p per kg and sold to 370p
Cast Cows (100) averaged 212p per kg and sold to 282p
Top price £2573
Lambs (2404) averaged 309p per kg, (-7p on the week) £143 per head and sold to £250 for Beltex Lambs
Top price 520.8p per kg for Beltex Lambs
Cast Sheep (408) averaged £119.76 and sold to £188
Heavy Ewes averaged £162, Light Ewes sold to £146 for Romney Ewes and averaged £101.42
PRIME CATTLE-
Brisk trade
Bullocks per head: Wellheads £2562.04, £2471.60, Nether Falla £2534.28, Learielaw £2368.80, Stouslie £2364, Wellheads £2358.72, Bee Edge £2353.20, Stouslie £2335.20, Learielaw £2324, Bee Edge £2310.72
Bullocks per kilo: Learielaw 360p, 350p, Nisbet, Wellheads, Wester Ulston 338p, Wellheads 336p, 334p, Dunslaw 334p
Heifers per head: Wellheads £2501.40, £2489.76, Whitsome West Newton £2328.24, Penston £2251.16, Learielaw £2230.20, Penston £2215.36, Whitrighill £2190.24, Bee Edge £2174.04, £2155.16, Penston £2145
Heifers per kilo: Penston 370p, 368p, Bee Edge 366p Denholm Meat Supplies, 358p Hugh Black & Sons Ltd, 356p Forsyths of Peebles, Whitsome West Newton 356p Briggsys Butchers, Learielaw 354p Hugh Black & Sons Ltd, Learielaw 352p, Faughhill 350p J.Saunderson Ltd, Longnewton 350p Hugh Black & Sons Ltd
CAST COWS –
Good trade for a good show.
Christmas Show of Cast Cows –
Champion Cow – Limousin.x from Messrs Ross, Wester Middleton
Top pence per kilo – 282p Rumbleton
Top Gross - £2573 Wester Middleton (CHAMPION)
Cast Cows per head: Wester Middleton £2573.46, Kersknowe £2285.52, Wester Middleton £2265.86, Kersknowe £2130.44, Falsidehill £2085.60, Whitburgh £2024.46, Birkenside £2000.46, Shidlaw £1992.60, Whitburgh £1992.30, £1988.52
Cast Cows per kilo: Rumbleton 282p, 277p, 267p, Wester Middleton 277p, Kersknowe 267p, Wester Middleton 261p, Rumbleton 250p, Fowberry Moor, Upper Samieston 249p
PRIME LAMBS:
Christmas Show & Sale of Prime Lambs.
A fantastic show of 80 pairs of lambs were put forward. The difficult task of judging was expertly undertaken Mr Morgan Reynolds, who awarded the Championship to Robert Coney & Jessica Marwick, Pirntaton Cottage. The Champion pair went on to realise £250 (48 kgs) to Briggsys Butchers, Jedburgh.
The Reserve Champion went to a pair of Beltex Lambs from Messrs Gray, Sunnycroft selling for £200 (48kgs) to Thompsons (Wholesale) Meats
This years show was kindly sponsored by H & H Insurance Brokers Ltd
Prize Winners –
Class 1 – Best Pair of Suffolk Cross Lambs
1st Wester Middleton 53k £175 Martin Baird (Butchers) Ltd
2nd Headshaw, Lauder 48k £173 Thompson (Wholesale Meats)
3rd Blegbie 53k £152 Martin Baird (Butchers) Ltd
Class 2 – Best Pair of Texel Cross Lambs
1st Sunnycroft 49kgs £198 J.A Waters & Sons
2nd Headshaw, Lauder 48kgs £190 Foston Butchery Ltd
3rd Wester Middleton 52kgs £184 Briggsys Butchers
Class 3 – Best Pair of Continental Lambs
1st Pirntaton Cottage 48kgs £250 Briggsys Butchers CHAMPION
2nd Sunnycroft 48kgs £200 Thompson (Wholesale Meats) RESERVE CHAMPION
3rd Headshaw, Lauder 46½kgs £180 Thompson (Wholesale Meats)
Class 4 – Best Pair of Cheviot Lambs
1st Wedderlie 45kgs £145 Vivers Scotlamb Ltd
2nd Buchtrig 45kgs £144 A.O Bell
3rd Wedderlie 44kgs £142 Vivers Scotlamb Ltd
Class 5 – Best Pair of Blackface Lambs
1st Falahill 36kgs £100 J.A Jewitt (Meat) Ltd
Class 6 – Best Pair of Native Bred Cross Lambs
1st Blegbie 51kgs £150 J.A Jewitt (Meat) Ltd
2nd Wester Middleton 52kgs £150 A.O Bell
3rd Wester Middleton 49kgs £145 High Greenbury Farm Ltd
Class 7 – Best Pair of Young Farmer Lambs
1st Wester Middleton 50kgs £170 Thompson(Wholesale Meats)
2nd Headshaw, Lauder 41kgs £160 Thompson(Wholesale Meats)
3rd Woodhouse 53kgs £179 J.F Finlay & Co Ltd
Big show forward. Handy weights easy sold. Average 309p, 46.2kgs, £143
Lambs per head –
Beltex: £250 Pirntaton Cottage (Marwick & Coney), £200 Sunnycroft, £180 Headshaw, Lauder, Sunnycroft,£178 Craighouse, £174 Crookston, £172, £171 Blackadder Mains; Texel: £198 Sunnycroft, £194 Belmont, £190 Headshaw, Lauder, Rennie Livestock, £184 Wester Middleton, £181 Huntington, £180(2) St Dunstan; Suffolk: £175 Wester Middleton, £173 Headshaw, Lauder, £171 Haltree, £170 Oxmuir (2), Broomilees, Belmont, Thornington; Greyfaced: £160 Corsbie, £150 Wester Middleton(2), £145 Broomilees, Burncastle, Wester Middleton, £143.50, £142.50 Burncastle; Dutch Spotted: £160 Myreside; Hampshire: £155, £148, £141 Newmains; North Country Cheviot: £150 Blegbie, £145 Craighouse, Blegbie. Buchtrig, Philiphaugh; Cheviot Mule: £150 Blegbie, £144 Falahill, Buchtrig, £142 (2) Blegbie; Blue Texel: £137 Rhodes Holdings; LLeyn: £133 Watson Farming; Berrichon: £132 Springwood; Blackface: £110 Lauderhill
Lambs per kilo –
Beltex: 520.8p Pirntaton Cottage, 416.7p Sunnycroft, 414p Craighouse, 400p Rennie Livestock, 391.3p Sunnycroft, 390.2p Headshaw (A.Anderson), 387.1p Headshaw, Lauder, 381p Crookston, 375p Belmont; Texel: 404.1p Sunnycroft, 395.8p Headshaw, Lauder, 380p Rennie Livestock, 378.7p Greenhead, 373.1p Belmont, 357.5p (2)The Anvil, 354.2p Woodhouse, 353.8p Wester Middleton; Suffolk: 360.4p Headshaw, Lauder, 330.2p Wester Middleton, 329.5p, 326.7p, 322p The Anvil, 320p Headshaw, Lauder, Meigle; Blue Texel: 342.5p Rhodes Holding; North Country Cheviot: 322.7p Wedderlie, 322.2p Blegbie, 320.9p Crosshall, 320p Buchtrig, 318.6p Falahill, 318.2p Wedderlie; Cheviot Mule: 320p Falahill, 312.5p Lylestane, 306.5p Middlethird, 305.5p Gospelhall; Greyfaced: 315.9p Broomilees, 308.9p Tollishill, 305p Meigle; Lleyn: 309.3p Watson Farming; Hampshire: 306p, 304.7p Trabroun Herdwicks; Berrichon: 300p Springwood; Blackface: 289.5p Lauderhill
EWES:
Better show of sheep forward with plenty of meat on offer!
Topping the sale at £188 was Messrs Neill, Thornington for a pen of 6 Suffolk Ewes. Messrs Neill, Thornington had another pen of 4 Suffolk Ewes also at £188. Following them at £180 was a Texel again from Thornington.
Suffolk: £188(2) Thornington, £168, £166 Falahill, £148 Oxnam Neuk, £140 Kidston Texels, £120 Meigle; Texel: £180 Thornington, £165 Lylestane, £158 Kidston Texels, Wells Stables, £156 Blackburn Cottages, £155 Ednam West Mains, Fairlaw, Reston(2), £150 Lylestane; Cheviot Mule: £178 Thornington, £135 Wedderlie, £130 Woodside, £116 Falahill, £114 Lylestane; Dutch Spotted: £160 Myreside; Greyfaced: £158 Thornington, £145 Falahill, £140, £138 Cockburn, £130 Synton Parkhead, £127 Burncastle, £125 North Synton, £104 Harcarse; Charollais: £155 Oxnam Neuk; Romney: £146, £138, £137, £130, £116 Bow, Bluefaced Leicester: £140, £110 Synton Parkhead; Lleyn: £128 Lylestane, £63 Dolphinston; North Country Cheviot: £126, £125 Wedderlie, £124 Philiphaugh, £113 Lylestane, £110 North Synton, £100 Bowershields, £90 Lylestane; Blackface: £117 Tollishill, £96 Harcarse, £86 Tollishill, £82, £80 Synton Parkhead, £78 Tollishill, £70 Kidston Texels; Zwartble: £80 Wells Stables; Easycare: £70 Cockburn, £68(2) Bankhouse; Shetland: £20 Fairlaw, Reston
RAMS:
A smaller show in Tups forward this week but yet again still a very good trade.
Topping the tups at £170 was a Suffolk from Tollishill Farming.
Suffolk: £170 Tollishill; Texel: £160 Greenhead, Reston, £135 Ednam West Mains; Blackface: £117 Tollishill, £80 Meigle
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