Late Autumn Fair of Breeding Sheep 2022
On Tuesday Penrith & District Farmers’ Mart LLP held their Late Autumn Fair of 1,506 breeding sheep, including the second sale of North of England Mule gimmer lambs, breeding ewes, shearlings & gimmer lambs. This sale also included The Annual “Troutbeck” sale of Swaledale, Bluefaced Leicester, Cheviot, Suffolk & Continental rams.
This breeding sheep sale drew a close to the back-end sales here at Penrith on a high, with a busy ringside of buyers trading from all over the country, ensuring all classes were good to sell.
The sale included a consignment of 103 Beltex X Texel shearlings up to three crop ewes from Messrs Lightfoot, Gillside, selling to an average of £190 per head, topping at £300 for a pen of powerful 2 crop ewes, with great shape and fantastic skin, purchased by Messrs M Bindloss & Son.
Mule gimmer lambs topped at £117 for a pen of 20 from Mr IC Copeland, Peter Crook, Longtown.
Rams sold well across the board, with purchasers keen to stock up just before tupping time. The sale topped at £800 twice from Mr G Pyman, Park View, with two strong Texel shearlings, both selling to Mr J Montgomery, Ayrshire.
Mr DH Hogg, Melbourne House, also achieved £800 twice with his consignment of North Country Cheviot shearling rams, with all of these animals being purchased by regular customers.
Ram lambs peaked at £550 for a strong bodied Texel from Mr J Hewson, Burgh Head.
All in all, more sheep of all classes could have been sold to vendors advantage, especially at this new sales fixture, as 2023 back end comes around, please consider marketing your stock at this sale.
Leading Prices
Breeding Females
2 Shear Plus
Beltex X Texel - £300, £270, £198, £195, £165 (2), £160, £155 (2), £148, £142 Gillside
Suffolk - £170 Fourseasons
Texel - £160, £145 Intack House; £155, £150 Welldon
Mule - £158 Raise Lodge
Shearlings
Beltex X Texel - £190, £188, £175 Gillside
Cheviot X - £141, £128, £125, £123, £122, £120 Huntly Lodge Farm
Gimmer Lambs
Texel - £120, £106 Welldon; £115, £110, £100 Intack House
Mule - £117, £86 Peter Crook; £100, £98 Hollins Farm; £98 Starrah; £90 West Dowgill; £90, £86 Amos Hill; £88 Thornhope Bungalow; £84, £83 Shap Abbey; £82 North Gill Bank
Cheviot Mule - £95 Fallow Field
Lleyn - £86 Bank Hall
Breeding Rams
2 Shear
Texel - £450 Lingstubbs; £400, £300 Gillside; £350 Romanvale
Cheviot - £400 Dry Howe
Suffolk - £300 Lodge Farm
Shearlings
Texel - £800 (2) Park View; £800, £550 (2) Staforth Park; £700, £600, £500, £400 (2) Orrisdale Farm; £620, £600, £400 (2) Raggetsyke; £600, £500, £400 Townfoot (Thompson); £450 Dry Howe; £450 Lansmere; £450 Nun Cote Nook Farm
Cheviot - £800 (2), £650 Melbourne House; £600, £500 Hill Top (Bell)
Bluefaced Leicester - £600, £450 Applegarth; £400 Raggetsyke
Beltex - £550, £400 Waterside Farm; £400 Lansmere
Charollais - £400 Swallow Heights
Suffolk - £380 Woodheads Cottages
Swaledale - £220 Shap Lodge Farm
Ram Lambs
Texel - £550, £500, £350 Burgh Head; £300 Farewell Grange
Bluefaced Leicester - £500 West Dowgill
Suffolk - £400, £300 Calees Cottage; £350 Swallow Heights