Kirkby Stephen Prime Sheep Sale

Harrison & Hetherington Ltd, Kirkby Stephen Mart held their weekly sale of prime sheep on Tuesday night when 1,874 sheep were forward consisting of 517 spring lambs, 809 prime hoggs and 548 cast sheep.

Topping at 460.5p/kg were 38kg Beltex cross lambs which sold for £175 from Messrs Skelton, Low House, Maryport.

Messrs Skelton sold a pair of lambs with the proceeds going to Glasgow Hospital for Sick Children and Bridekirk Dovenby School, with both these been of great support to The Skelton Families son, Thomas.

After frenzied bidding the hammer came down at £350 each which was matched by Messrs Skelton and Harrison & Hetherington donating a further £100 the final amount raised totalled £1500, with the lambs being joint purchased by J. Blenkhorn on behalf of Yorkshire Halal Meats & P. Burton on behalf of West Scottish Lamb.

Charity Lambs

Messrs Hunter, Upper Brydekirk, Annan sold a pair of 42kg Beltex cross lambs to make £189.

Messrs Lyle, Staingills, Penrith sold 42kg Beltex cross lambs to make £186, with another pen of 38kg lambs making £174 (457.9p/kg) from this home.

Trade for spring lambs was one of the dearest seen with an SQQ average of 360.4p/kg and an overall sale average of 358.7p/kg being achieved. This equated to a sale average of £144.76 per head!

31 pen and 107 lambs sold between 400-460p/kg

31 pen and 90 lambs sold between £160-£189

128 Beltex cross lambs sold to average a whopping £157.01 and 400p/kg

The Anniversary show which saw a fantastic entry of pairs of lambs in each class was ably judged by local supporter Mr H. Birkbeck, Castle Hill who awarded the overall championship to the first placed pair of Beltex cross lambs from Messrs Hunter, Upper Brydekirk, Annan which weighed 42kg and sold for £182.

Champion (L-R, Judge Harold Birkbeck & Consigner Calum Hunter)

The overall reserve pair of lambs were awarded to the first placed any other breed from Messrs Sowerby, Terrys Farm which a pair of Dutch Texel cross lambs which weighted 43kg and sold for £185 to Messrs Birkbeck on behalf of Dowding Butchers, Appleby.

Reserve Champion L-R, Judge Harold Birkbeck & Consignor Ian Sowerby).

The Anniversary show was kindly sponsored by the NFU Appleby branch.

Show Results

Texel cross
1^st                      G Sowerby, Terry’s Farm - £178 (42kg)
2^nd              L Skelton & Son, Low House – £350 (44kg)
3^rd              M/s Lyle, Staingills - £185 (48kg)

Beltex cross
1^st              TW Hunter, Upper Brydekirk - £182 (42kg)
2^nd             M/s Lyle, Staingills - £186 (42kg)
3^rd              JK Slee, Street House - £160 (35kg)

Suffolk cross
1^st               G Sowerby, Terry’s Farm - £185 (43kg)
2^nd             M/s Lyle, Staingills - £148 (40kg)
3^rd              WT Jackson, Clarks Farm - £142 (44kg)

Any other breed
1^st               G Sowerby, Terrys Farm - £185 (43kg) Dutch Texel
2^nd              G&H Deighton, Orchard Farm - £178 (46kg) Charollais
3^rd              T Ellis, Woodside - £172 (42kg) Millennium Blue

Champion – TW Hunter, Upper Brydekirk (Beltex)
Reserve Champion – G Sowerby, Terrys Farm (Dutch Texel)

Many more lambs are required on a weekly basis to fulfil demand from 14 active buyers here at Kirkby Stephen.

Prime hoggs topped the sale at £191 for 63kg Texel cross hoggs from Messrs Watson, Whygill Head purchased by L Broster, Huddersfield.

Topping at 334.7p/kg were a pen of 49kg Beltex hoggs which sold for £164 from Messrs Hetherington, Old Hall Farm, Penrith.

Hill cheviot hoggs sold to £175 for a pen of seven 57kg hoggs from Messrs Mark, Sunny Gill Farm, Penrith.

Cast sheep topped twice at £156 firstly for a Beltex cross ewe from Messrs Hunter, Upper Brydekirk and also for a pair of Texel cross ewes from Messrs Bainbridge, Laneside, Barnard Castle.

Blackfaced ewes topped at £112 for a pen of three from Messrs Heelis, Eden Vale, Warcop, with this same home topping with Herdwick ewes at £100.50.

Swaledale ewes topped at £106.50 for a pair from Messrs Elliot, Harbour Flatt, Murton.

All classes of cast sheep were dearest as well with many being a good £10-£15 up.

Leading Lamb Consignments
No.          Weight    p/kg        Head         From
16    @    40.7kg    437.4p    £178.25    Upper Brydekirk
3      @    46.6kg    365p       £170.33    Orchard Farm
14    @    42.4kg    392.9p    £166.71    Terrys Farm
5      @    42kg       392.8p    £165.00    Brow Top Farm
10    @    45.4kg    344p       £156.20    Cole Hill Farm
10    @    40.6kg    377.8p    £153.40    Home Farm
68    @    40.4kg    374.3p    £151.34    Low House
26    @    40.3kg    372.8p    £150.58    Chruch Farm
94    @    39.5kg    377.3p    £150.29    Staingills

Leading Prices –

Spring Lambs –

Price Per Head –
Texel £350 Low House; £185 Staingills; £178 Terrys Farm; £173, £157 Wharton Hall; £170 Brow Top Farm; £168, £159 Home Farm; £160, £159 Dry Evers; £157 Cole Hill Farm; £156 Terrys Farm; £156 Old Mill Flatt; £155 Clarks Farm: Beltex £189, £182, £180, £178, £171 Upper Brydekirk; £186, £174, £168, £167 Staingills; £179 Wharton Hall; £175, £172, £160 Low House; £171(2), £165 Church Farm; £169 Park Farm; £160 Street House: Dutch Texel £185, £173 Terrys Farm: Charollais £178, £155 Orchard House; £177 Wharton Hall; £149 Newhall Farm; £145.50 Low House; £144 Terrys Farm: Millennium Blue £172, £143 Woodside: Suffolk £168, £142 Clarks Farm; £158 Terrys Farm; £148 Staingills; £145 Brow Top Farm; £143.50 Scar Top; £140 Waitby Farm: Blue Texel £137 Middle Bank End Farm: Dorset £130 Ellwood Croft.

Price Per Kilo
Texel 795.5p Low House; 423.8p Terrys Farm; 422p, 397.4p Wharton Hall; 414.6p Brow Top Farm; 409.8p, 397.5p, 381.6p Home Farm; 400p Old Mill Flatt; 385.4p Staingills; 380.6p Street House: Beltex 460.5p, 419.5p, 410.3p Low House; 457.9p, 442.9p, 428.2p, 409.8p, 400p(2) Staingills; 457.1p Street House; 450p(2), 445p, 433.3p, 417.1p Upper Brydekirk; 434.2p, 427.5p, 407.1p Church Farm; 412.2p Park Farm; 411.1p, 400p Newhall Farm; 402.8p Wharton Hall: Dutch Texel 430.2p, 422p Terrys Farm: Charollais 421.4p Wharton Hall; 387p Orchard Farm; 372.5p Newhall Farm; 342.9p Terrys Farm: Millennium Blue 409.5p, 357.5p Woodside: Suffolk 370p, 345p Staingills; 367.4p Terrys Farm; 342.5p Clarks Farm; 333.7p Scar Top: Blue Texel 334.1p Middle Bank End Farm.

Prime Hoggs
Price Per Head –
Texel £191, £172 Whygill Head; £183, £178, £171 Scales Hall; £178 Wodencroft; £168(2), £166(2) Old Hall Farm; £166, £164 Haithwaite; £162, £160 Sunny Gill Farm; £160 Briggle Farm: Beltex £184 Fair View; £184, £156 Sunny Gill Farm; £180 Parkside; £164, £156 Old Hall Farm: Cheviot £175, £150, £142 Sunny Gill Farm; £165, £164.50, £152, £150 Bloan Farm: Suffolk £161, £160, £146 Scales Hall; £150(2) Old Hall Farm; £142, £140 Hyde Park: Scotch Blackface £144, £114 Sunny Gill Farm; £118.50 Greystone House: Mule £132, £124, £120 Kelmore Hill Farm; £131 Middle Shipley Farm; £123 House & Holme Farm; £120 Castle Hill: Swaledale £121, £115 Sunny Gill Farm: Badgerface £108 Newhall Farm.

Price per kilo –
Beltex 334.7p, 324.5p Old Hall Farm; 325.6p Kelmore Hill; 325p Sunny Gill Farm; 321.4p Parkside; 313.5p Hallbankgate Farm: Texel 334.7p, 313.2p, 302.2p Haithwaite; 313.7p Sunny Gill Farm; 312.7p, 303.2p Whygill Head; 306.9p Scales Hall: Suffolk 312.5p, 281.3p Old Hall Farm; 269.3p Riverside Farm; 265.5p Scales Hall: Cheviot 307p, 293.6p Sunny Gill Farm; 305.3p Hallbankgate Farm; 288.6p Bloan Farm: Scotch Blackface 271.7p Sunny Gill Farm; 269.3p Greystone House; 250p Hallbankgate Farm: Mule 253.8p Kelmore Hill Farm: Swaledale 231.7p Riverside Farm; 221.8p Howgill Farm; 220p Sunny Gill Farm.

Cast Ewes

Beltex £156 Upper Brydekirk: Texel £156 Laneside; £150 Low House; £144 Clarks Farm; £140(2) Staingills: Suffolk £150.50, £142 Scar Top; £130 Terrys Farm; £130 Clarks Farm: Halfbred £150, £148 Cole Hill Farm: Bluefaced Leicester £130 Oaktree Farm: Charollais £130 Church Farm: Rough £112 Raisgill Hall; £100 Smardale Hall: Scotch Blackface £112 Eden Vale: Mule £110 Glebe Farm; £108 Fair View; £105.50 Kelmore Hill Farm; £102 OldHall Farm; £100.50 Smardale Mill: Swaledale £106.50 Harbour Flatt; £96.50 Bleathgill; £94.50 West Summersides; £93.50 Glebe Farm; £90 Gillfield: Herdwick £100.50 Eden Vale; £80.50 Newhall Farm: Lleyn £100 Whingill: Cheviot £90 Townhead Farm: Jacob £72.50 Woodside.

Cast Rams

Texel £140 Fair View: Bluefaced Leicester £140 Gillfield: Swaledale 100 Allotment Farm; £96.50 Foggy Gill.