Kirkby Stpehen Primes Sheep Sale

Harrison & Hetherington Ltd, Kirkby Stephen Mart Held Their Weekly Sale of Prime Sheep on Tuesday Evening when 2801 sheep where forward consisting of 2026 Spring Lambs and 775 Cast Sheep.

Spring lambs

Kirkby Stephen fat ring swam against the tide becoming an outlier once again and achieving an SQQ average of 402.1p/kg and an overall average of 397.5p/kg £175.46 was achieved for 2026 lambs sold.

The sale topped at £235 on three separate occasions for 60kg Texel cross lambs firstly from Messrs Eccles, Hardberry Hill, Barnard Castle and also from Messrs Sayer, Musgrave, with this home also selling 53kg Texel cross lambs to £230.

Topping at 557.3p/kg were a pen of seven 41kg Beltex cross lambs which made £228.50 from Messrs Dodd, Skylin, Temple Sowerby.

Messrs Longstaff, Ascot House, Murton sold a pen of three 42kg Beltex cross lambs to make £230 (547.6p/kg).

Messrs Pichard, Cheney House Farm, Leicester sold a pen of wight 41kg Beltex to make £220 (536.6p/kg) with this home also selling a pen of eighteen 42kg lambs at £216.50 (515.5p/kg), a pen of eleven at 47kg at £217.50 (462.8p/kg) a pen of eighteen 46kg making £210.50 (457.6p/kg) and two pens of twenty 42kg at £199.50, with 58kg lambs from this home making £232. The consignment of 145 lambs from this home sold to average 43.2kg £203.67 (470.8p/kg).

Messrs Maughan, Ash Garth sold 42kg Beltex cross lambs to make £220 (523.8p/kg).

Messrs Fairburn, Marriforth Ripon sold 51kg Beltex lambs to £220.

Messrs Jackson, Little Beck Farm, sold a pen of seven 41kg Beltex lambs to make £218 (531.7p/kg).

Messrs Platt, Far Whittles Farm, Cheshire sold a pen of seventeen 40kg Beltex cross lambs to make £216.50 (541.3p/kg), with this home also selling a pen of nineteen 39kg Beltex lambs to make £208 (533.3p/kg) and another pen of twenty 40kg lambs at £208 (520p/kg). This consignment of 62 Beltex cross lambs sold to average 39.9kg £208.40 (521.2p/kg).

Charlotte and Georgia Davies, Top Field Farm, Leicester sold a pen of thirteen 42kg Beltex cross lambs to make £213 (507.1p/kg)

Pens of good meated heavy lambs were a flying trade being every bit as dear as last week with Messrs Todd, Victoria Cottages, Bishop Auckland selling a pen 48 kg Suffolk cross lambs to make £217 (452.1p/kg) with this home also selling a pen of sixteen 51kg Suffolks for £212 (415.7p/kg and another pen of fourteen 49kg at £205.50 which is (419.4p/kg)

The consignment of 52 Suffolk cross lambs from this home sold to average 49.5kg £205.39 (415p/kg)

Todd Farming, Manor Farm, Market Rasen sold 50kg Suffolk cross lambs to £215 (430p/kg) with this home also selling a pen of seven 52kg Charollais cross lambs to make £210 and a pen of ten 51kg Charollais cross lambs to make £208.50 and a pen of 50kg at £206.50 (413p/kg).

Mule lambs sold to £168 for a pen of ten 47kg (357.4p/kg) from Messrs Hayton, Asby Grange.

Messrs Fairburn, Marriforth, Ripon sold a pen of eight 43kg mule lambs to make £153.

Goog meated pens of light and handy weighted lambs were also very good to sell with Messrs Armstrong, Bonny Rigg selling a pen of four 37kg lambs to make £190 (513.5p/kg), a pen of 36kg Blue Texel lambs to make £160 (444.4p/kg) a pen of 38kg to make £158.50 and a pen of 33kg Blue Texel lambs to make £144 (436.4p/kg).

Mesrss Slack, Stoneriggs sold a pen of 38kg lambs to make £166.50 (438.2p/kg) with this home also selling a pen of 35kg texel cross lambs to make £146.50 (418.6p/kg)

Messrs Nelson, Rosegill Head, sold a pen of twelve 38kg texel cross lambs to make £164.50 (432.9p/kg)

Tot Hds		Weight	P/Kg	Average	Vendor
9	@	42kg	524.7p	£220.39	JS&JO Dodd, Temple Sowerby
10	@	41.9kg	506.4p	£212.20	HG Jackson, Kings Meaburn
5	@	51.4kg	408.1p	£209.80	G&EA Ewin, Sandford
62	@	39.9kg	521.2p	£208.40	GW&MA Platt, Cheshire
52	@	49.5kg	415p	£205.39	JR Todd, Bishop Auckland
14	@	47.3kg	431.7p	£204.14	G Sowerby, Ormside
145	@	43.2kg	470.8p	£203.67	WF&RCM Pickard, Leicestershire
56	@	41.7kg	470.7p	£196.63	C&G Davies, Leicester
6	@	42.5kg	462.3p	£196.50	EM&C Longstaff, Murton
46	@	44.5kg	439.3p	£195.88	ML EC & IM Scott, Northallerton
59	@	49.5kg	392p	£194.37	Todd Farming, Market Rasen
5	@	47kg	410.6p	£193.00	JE Miller, Appleby
10	@	40.9kg	469.9p	£192.20	J Maughan, Great Asby
6	@	46.8kg	408.1p	£191.17	PG Sayer, Great Musgrave
40	@	48.6kg	391.8p	£190.43	D Eccles, Middleton in Teesdale

Cast Ewes

Cast sheep topped at £264 on three separate occasions firstly for a pair of texel cross ewes from Messrs Wynne, Hall Farm House, Derbyshire with Charlotte and Georgia Davies, Top Field Farm, Leicester also selling two pens of texel cross ewes to make £264 with this home also selling a pen Beltex cross ewes at £261 and another pair of texel ewes to £255.

Messrs Longstaff, Ascot House, Murton sold a pair of Beltex cross ewes to make £260.

Messrs Sowerby, Terrys Farm, Ormside sold a pair of Beltex cross ewes to make £258

Mule ewes sold to £194 for a pen of twelve from Messrs Marston, South View, Winton.

Hill Cheviot ewes sold to £190 from Messrs Bolton, Snow Hall Farms, Darlington.

Swaledale ewes sold to £151 from Messrs Fawcett, Argill House, South Stainmore.

Spring lambs

Price per head

TEXEL: £235, £230 Musgrave House, £235(x2), £226, £224, £204(x2), £202 Hardberry Hill Farm, £227, £204 Terrys Farm, £221(x2), £205, £204, £199.50, £196 Brogden Farm, £220, £204 Cheney House Farm, £220, £203 Black Syke, £220 Swathburn, £220, £208, £202 Marriforth, £209 Sunnyside, £208 Grains O Beck, £206 Grassgill Lodge, £205 Haithwaite, £204, £196.50 Knock Cross Cottage, £203 Claylands Farm, £202 The Buildings Farm, £200, £199,(x2) Searchlight Farm, £199 Snow Hall Farms, £197(x2) Barrowmoor Farm, £196.50 Eden Flatt, £195.50 Grove House Farm, BELTEX: £232, £220, £217.50, £216.50, £210.50, £199.50, £199, £198.50 Cheney House Farm, £230 Ascot House, £228.50, £210 Skylin, £220 Ash Garth, £220 Marriforth, £218,(x2) , Little Beck, £216.50, £208,(x2) , Far Whittles Farm, £213, £205 Top Field Farm, £205 Goodlie Hill Cottage, £200 Sunnyside, £198 Haithwaite, £196 Grassgill Lodge, £195.50,Brogden Farm, £195 Windygate, CHAROLLAIS: £226, £222.50, £211, £210, £208.50, £206.50, £195, £193.50, £185(x2), £180 Manor Farm, SUFFOLK: £220 Bank Head, £217, £212, £205.50, £197.50 Victoria Cottages, £215, £190 White House, £215 Manor Farm, £203, £194 Copeland Row, £201,(x2) , Hardberry Hill Farm, £198.50 Crake Trees Manor, £196.50 Blue Grass, £194 Grassgill Lodge, £192.50 Keld Farm, ZWARTBLES: £200 Clockeld, BLUE TEXEL: £187 Bonny Rigg, ROUGE : £177.50 Grove House Farm, HILL CHEVIOT: £176, £152 Copeland Row, DUTCH SPOTTED: £173 Helbeck Grange, £172 Lockthwaite, MULE: £168 Asby Grange, £153 Marriforth, £150 East Unthank Farm, BORDER LEICESTER: £167,(x2) Crake Trees Manor, CLUN FOREST: £165 Searchlight Farm, HAMPSHIRE DOWN: £162(x2) Windygate, GOAT: £151 Grassgill Lodge,

Spring lambs

Price per kilo

BELTEX: 557.3p Skylin, 547.6p Ascot House, 541.3p, 533.3p, 520p Far Whittles Farm, 536.6p, 515.5p, 475p, 473.8p, 472.6p Cheney House Farm, 531.7p, 495.5p Little Beck, 523.8p, 472.5p Ash Garth, 513.5p, 471.8p Moorriggs, 507.1p Top Field Farm, 480p, 476.7p Goodlie Hill Cottage, 474.4p Starrah, GOAT: 520.7p Grassgill Lodge, TEXEL: 483p, 434p Terrys Farm, 445.5p, 442p, (x2) , 441.9p, 415.6p Brogden Farm, 441.3p, 424.4p, 417.1p Moorriggs, 434p Musgrave House, 432.9p, 421.4p, (x2) , Rosgill Head, 431.4p, 424.5p Marriforth, 423.1p Black Syke, 418.6p Stoneriggs, 416.7p Searchlight Farm, 416.3p Hall Farm House, 415.5p Starrah, 415.1p Swathburn, 410.6p Bridge End, 410.3p 19 Rampkin Pastures, 410p Haithwaite, SUFFOLK: 452.1p, 419.4p, 415.7p, 403.1p 3 Victoria Cottages, 430p Manor Farm, 402p, (x2) , Hardberry Hill Farm, 397.9p Scar Top, 390.9p, 387.8p White House, 389.2p Crake Trees Manor, 388p Grassgill Lodge, 386p Castle Hill, 385.4p Decklyn, 384.7p, (x2) , 384p Ghyll House, 383p Snow Hall Farms, BLUE TEXEL: 445.2p, 444.4p, 436.4p Bonny Rigg, DUTCH SPOTTED: 422p, 384.6p, Helbeck Grange, 392.5p Helbeck Grange, 382.2p Lockthwaite, CHAROLLAIS: 413p, 408.8p, 403.8p, 403.1p, 396.5p, 385.4p, 383.6p, 383p, 382.4p Manor Farm, 394p, (x2) , Castle Hill, 387.5p Moorriggs, ROUGE : 397.6p, 394.4p, Grove House Farm, EASYCARE: 368.4p 25 Copeland Row, HILL CHEVIOT: 366.7p 25 Copeland Row, HAMPSHIRE DOWN: 360p (x2) , Windygate, MULE: 357.4p Asby Grange, 355.8p Marriforth,

Cast Sheep

Cast Ewes

TEXEL: £264, £255, £238 Top Field Farm, £264, £232, £228, £226 Hall Farm House, £256 Yew House, £245 Terrys Farm, £244 Breaks Hall, £243 Haithwaite, £240 Street House, £238, £220 Black Syke, £236 Moorriggs, £234, £228 Cheney House Farm, £233 Scar Top, £230 Low Hall, £226 Rampkin Pastures, £220 Musgrave House, BELTEX: £261, £242 Top Field Farm, £260, £212 Ascot House, £258, £240 Terrys Farm, £252, £230, £200 Skylin, £237 Ash Garth, £220 Sunnyside, £200 Westmorland Rise, CHAROLLAIS: £244 Moorriggs, BLUE TEXEL: £242 Stoneriggs, £186 Rampkin Pastures, SUFFOLK: £202 Black Syke, £183 Blue Grass, £181 Grassgill Lodge, £180 Hesket Demain, ROMNEY: £200 Breaks Hall, MULE: £194, £176 South View, £189, £183 Eden Flatt, £186 Stoneriggs, £179 Sunnyside, £179 White House, £178 Town Head Farm, £178 Hall Farm House, £176 Low Hall, £176 Bridge End, £175 Grains O Beck, LLEYN: £194, £168(x2) Helm Farm, HILL CHEVIOT: £190 Snow Hall Farms, DUTCH SPOTTED: £188, £168 Low Hall, ZWARTBLES: £170 High Hesket, ROUGH FELL: £154, £150 Hardendale Hall, £151 Yew House, SWALEDALE: £151, £127 Argill House, £146 Bleathgill, £141 Swathburn, £135 Asby Grange, £129 East Unthank Farm, £129 Hartley Castle, £127 Musgrave House, £124 Hill House West, HERDWICK: £130 Decklyn,

Cast Rams

Beltex £180 Marriforth: Swaledale £164 Bleathgill; £151 Murton Hall