Borderway Monthly Dairy Day

Broughton Herd Tops With A Fancy Red

February dairy sales kicked off at Borderway with a quality offering of freshly calved cows and heifers and strong in calf heifers.  Trade was less on the month to average £2131 for milking heifers with the trade toping at £3000. 

The sale was sponsored by Agri-King with the top price coming from the Holden family from Broughton-In-Furness  with a tremendous young heifer sired by Delta Abundant.  Broughton Cas Red sold for £3000 with her dam being a high production cows with lactations over 13000kgs.    

The Carduff herd owned by the Bryson’s from Lesmahagow sold a strong group of heifers topping at £2800 for Carnduff Bryson Penny.  She was sired by Gen Bryson and bred from a VG89 pointed dam with super high production. 

Several heifers and cows sold for £2750 including Kibbleston Pharo Effie from the Craigs from Carneil Farm near Dunfermline.

The Wilson family from Clackmae Farm in Berwickshire sold an impressive group of nine high production heifers topping at £2600 for Nydie Hailed Eclispe who giving 40kgs. 

The second sale to disperse the famous Halmyre Ayrshire herd owned by the Davidson family from Castle Douglas topped at £2600 for Halmyre Urr Ladybird, a young second lactation cow that had calved early Janusry and was giving almost 50kgs.

The best trade of the day went to a special consignment of HoJo’s consigned by Carstairs Dairy near Lanark.  They were all sired by Holstein sires from high production Jerseys and all were giving oceans of milk.  They topped at £2350 to average almost £2000.

In Calf heifers topped at £2150 for YoungBro Pattern Phoebe who was consigned by Ed & Linda Wilson from Petteril Hill Farm near Carlisle.  She was sired by Progenesis Pattern and bred from a Almamater dam with production records over 150000kgs.  

Our next dairy sale at Borderway is on Wednesday 18^th February and features 150 freshly calved cows and heifers in the Border & Lakeland sale.  The catalogue can be viewed on our website or ordered from the Pedigree Office 01228 406230

Sale averages

88 Holstein Heifers in Milk                                 £1925.00
18 Holstein Cows in Milk                                     £2131.00
6 Ayrshire Cows in Milk                                        £2050.00
13 Jersey Cross Cows in Milk                            £1926.92
1 Montbéliarde Heifer in Milk                            £1950.00
9 Cross Bred Swedish Cows in Milk               £1473.33
4 Faulted Cows & Heifers in Milk                     £1362.50                                                                   

Youngstock  
41 Holstein In-Calf Heifers                                £1650.00
8 Montbeliarde In Calf Heifers                         £1875.00

Leading Prices

Lot         Price                     Buyer
111        £3000                   Ling Dairies Ltd, Southwaite, Carlisle, Cumbria
40           £2800                   Messrs Huddleston, Berrier, Penrith, Cumbria
39           £2750                   Messrs Kincaid, Lockerbie, Dumfriesshire
41           £2750                   Messrs Kennedy, Linlithgow, West Lothian
63           £2750                   Messrs Sloan, Lockerbie, Dumfriesshire
124        £2700                   Messrs Kincaid, Lockerbie, Dumfriesshire
127        £2700                   Messrs Pollock, Carlisle, Cumbria
22           £2650                   Messrs Kincaid, Lockerbie, Dumfriesshire
33           £2650                   Messrs Kincaid, Lockerbie, Dumfriesshire
9             £2600                   Messrs Spedding, Carlisle, Cumbria
81           £2600                   Messrs James, Carlisle, Cumbria
29           £2550                   Messrs Huddleston, Berrier, Penrith, Cumbria
85           £2550                   Messrs Eilbeck & Son, Wigton Cumbria
92           £2550                   Messrs Spedding, Carlisle, Cumbria
100        £2500                   Messrs Huddleston, Berrier, Penrith, Cumbria