Weekly Report and Newsletter - 4th April 2025 Lancaster Auction Mart: Sale of Prime Hoggs, Cast Sheep & Sheep with Lambs. Monday 31st March 2025. Prime Hoggs- Prime Hoggs sell to £211 & 421p/kg A sharp rise in numbers forward today and despite reports elsewhere of a falling trade a very respectable SQQ of 325p/kg was achieved for an entry of predominantly grass finish hoggs, heavies perhaps the least desirable with many customers presenting the last of their hoggs, hoggs today ranged from 28kg-70kg. Well finished standard weight hoggs remain the strongest trade selling to £184 (409p/kg) for Beltex x from D&K Swarbrick with others £181 (411p/kg M & YS Barker. The sale topped at £211 for heavy weight Texel x from GH Sanderson & Family. Nicely finished light weights £125-£132. Kevin Purtill returned to the top of the board today selling Beltex x hoggs to 421p/kg with other better end 380p/kg – 410p/kg and grass finished hoggs 340-360p/kg. Heavy weights generally 290p/kg-310p/kg. Prime Hoggs Top Prices: Texel: £211 Blackleach House Farm, £187 Park Farm Barn, £184 Bensons Farm, £182 Halton Park Farm, £182 Blackleach House Farm. Beltex: £192 £182 Ingleborough Park Drive, £181 Halton Park Farm, £168 The Hawthornes, £167 Bensons Farm, £167 Burrow Heights, £164 Oak Avenue. Charolaise: £180 Park Farm Barn, £162 Ingleborough Park, £158 Throstle Grove Farm, £156 Bensons Farm, £150 Throstle Grove Farm. Suffolk: £173 £153 £150 Halton Park Farm, £147 The Hawthornes, £146 Little Crimbles, £144 Burrow Heights Farm. Continental: £171 £160 Blackleach House Farm, £157 Cross House Farm, £140 Burrow Heights Farm, £136 Medlar Hall Farm, £134 Little Crimbles. Leicester: £152 Ouzelthorn Farm. Cheviot: £150 Hillam House Farm, £144 Burrow Heights Farm, £144 Hillam House Farm, £137 Medlar Hall Farm, £137 Little Crimbles. Mule: £148 Cross House Farm, £146 Thornbush Farm, £145 Ouzelthorn Farm, £144 Medlar Hall Farm, £136 High House Farm. Masham: £145 £137 £134 medlar Lane. Swale: £138 Thornbush Farm, £134 High House Farm, £130 Appletree Farm, £122 High House Farm, £119 Marshaw Farm. Cast Sheep- Cull Sheep to £248 Cull sheep remained a strong trade with a top prize of £248 achieved for a BFL ram from RH & C Ayrton Ltd, Abbeystead. Ewes sold to £232 for cheviot mules from G&D Ball & Son, Little Eccleston with other stronger end ewes generally £185-£210, mediums £155-£180 with the leaner end £125-£140. Hill ewes sold to £176 for cheviots with others £145-£165. Just a handful of horned ewes being smaller mediums to £102. Cast Ewes Top Prices: Leicester: £248 £196 £180 Ouzelthorn Farm. Mule: £232 Woodstock, £190 Burrow Heights, £162 Bensons Farm, £158 Burrow Heights, £158 Appletree Farm. Texel: £182 Burrow Heights, £176 Greenbank Farm, £174 Fairhurst Farm, £162 Church Brow, £162 Lundholme Farm. Cheviot: £176 Woodstock, £158 Yealand Manor, £156 £136 Hillam House Farm. Dorset: £168 £140 Fairhurst Farm. Continental: £164 Lundholme Farm, £122 £98 High House Farm. Charolaise: £158 Arna Wood Farm, £100 Woodstock. Suffolk: £128 Woodstock. Swale: £102 Marshaw Farm, £82 Ouzelthorn Farn, £52 Marshaw Farm. Jacob: £92 Gibsons Farm. Kerry Hill: £26 Gibsons Farm. Sheep with Lambs at Foot- Breeding Sheep to £415 & £415/life. This popular weekly sale saw another rise in numbers forward with an ever expanding ringside of buyers in attendance for all classes and types. Continental ewes with texel x twins sold to £415 from TR Gorst, Ellel who sold others at £410 with ewes with younger lambs generally £330-£360. Another entry of 2/4 crop mule ewes with twin texel lambs from DJ Casson & Son, Slyne sold to £405 with others at £380 twice. Cheviot mule ewes from M Allen, Carnforth sold to £390 with twin Beltex x lambs. Ewes with singles sold to £290 for Cheviot mules with Beltex x lambs from M Allen, Carnforth with continentals £285, £280 from T Gorst, Ellel and £260 JM & NJ Strickland, Mules with single sold to £255 from DJ Casson & Son, Slyne. Already entered for next week 50+ families.
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