North West Auctions Weekly Report and Newsletter – 10th December
Weekly report & newsletter Prime Stock Show & Sales NWA Lancaster The annual Christmas Prime Lamb show on at Lancaster had the strongest show of lambs out for some years. Thanks goes to our judge Andrew Finch of Dunbia and todays sponsor Jim Peet Agriculture. The Champion pen of Lambs was awarded to GR & A Foy of Parkside with a pen of Beltex. The champion lambs went onto sell for £120 to the judge. A strong trade throughout with a market average of 193ppk and SQQ of 194ppk for a larger entry of over 1,000 lambs forward. Best quality lambs sold 220ppk plus easily topping at 286ppk for the prize pen from GR & A Foy. First cross lambs sold around the 200ppk mark with a larger entry of hill bred lambs forward. Mules sold around 190ppk with horned lambs selling in and around the mid 180ppk.
Show Results: Texel/Beltex 1st GR & A Foy - £120 2nd GR & A Foy - £116 rd 3 EJ Ward & Son - £103
Mule/Masham 1st AG Butler - £84 2nd RH & C Ayrton - £83.50 rd 3 EN Wright & Son - £93
Horned 1st T & CM Kelsall - £77 2nd D France - £81 rd 3 JS & S Atkinson - £72.50
Suffolk 1st J Bargh & Son - £85.50
A fantastic entry of Prime Cattle forward for the Christmas show. Frank Towers of Curwin Hill expertly judged and awarded the Champion rosette to Barbara Rayton of Winston with a British Blue heifer. Reserve Champion was the second prized heifer and was awarded to a stylish Limousin heifer from Kerry Foster of Tarleton. The first prized steer was won by Richard Preece of Thornbush and Brian Carter of Cragg End won the Bull class with a Limousin. Some tremdous cattle forward for the show was met by equally as strong trade. Clean cattle eagerly sort after with the champion heifer weighing 560kg and selling for 315ppk to Country Style Meats of Lancaster who also bought the reserve champion at 298ppk. A strong entry of prime bulls topped at 201.5ppk for the first prized bull from Brian Carter of Cragg End and a market average of 185ppk.
Show Results: Champion Res Champion
Barbara Rayton - British Blue Heifer – 315ppk Kerry Foster – Limousin Heifer – 298ppk
Prime Heifer 1st Barbara Rayton, Winston BRB 2nd Kerry Foster, Beach House LIM 3rd Barbara Rayton, Winston BRB
315ppk 298ppk 242ppk
Prime Bulls 1st B & SE Carter, Cragg End LIM 201.5ppk 2nd S & BM Lawrenson & Son, Northwoods Farm LIM
199.5ppk
Prime Heifers 1st RG & H Preece, Thornbush Farm LIM 220ppk
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Tuesday 9th December saw the weekly sale of primestock held at J36, where a fantastic show of 3,200 prime sheep were forward. This included our annual Christmas Show of Prime Lambs This year the judging duties were in the very capable hands of Mr Andrew Dawson of Sedbergh. An outstanding show of 50 pens of show sheep were forward over 5 classes and, after judging the classes, Andrew awarded the championship rosette and the Jack Ireton Trophy to a cracking pen of Beltex x lambs from Messrs M E Wannop & Sons of Heaton Hall. These went on later to sell for the top price of the day at £155/head to Mr Robert Skelton. Trade was fantastic from start to finish with the smart end of the lambs topping at 329.8p/kg, but regularly 230-260p/kg. Commercial first cross lambs were 210-225p/kg. Once again a good show of well finished hill lambs were forward. Mule lambs regulary £38-£42 over the weight. Horned lambs topped out at 201.4p/kg from Fishwick Brothers of Longsleddale for a pen of Swaledale lambs with the majority 185195p/kg. Trade ended up at 193.67p/kg for all sold, with half the lambs forward being hill bred. A big thank you to all vendors for the top quality show of lambs presented for sale to an active ringside of 15 buyers
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Show Results: Class 1 – Lowland sired lambs 1st – Fishwick Farms, Bank House, 46kg, £100 to Woodhead Brothers 2nd – J G & P H Thompson, Poppy Farm, 45kg, £99 to A Dawson on behalf of Vivers Scotlamb 3rd – Fishwick Farms, Bank House, 46kg, £91 to R Skelton Class 2 – Beltex sired lambs – Class kindly sponsored by the Northern Beltex Society 1st – M E Wannop & Sons, Heaton Hall, 47kg, £155 to R Skelton 2nd – Fishwick Farms, Bank House, 45kg, £104 to A Dawson on behalf of Vivers, Scotlamb 3rd – J G & P H Thompson, Poppy Farm, 39kg, £101 to A Dawson on behalf of Vivers, Scotlamb Class 3 – Mule Lambs 1st – P & T L Edmondson, Low Hall, 48kg, £86 to R Skelton 2nd – P & T L Edmondson, Low Hall, 48kg, £84.50 to R Skelton 3rd – F & S A Edmondson, Nether Houses Farm, 51kg, £87 to M Lomax
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Class 4 – Pure Hill Bred Lambs 1st – Low Moor Howe Farms, Winster, (Chev) 41kg, £84 to A Dawson 2nd – J J & M Metcalfe & Sons, Orchard House (Chev), 39kg, £73 to Woodhead Brothers 3rd – A W & A M Clarke, Low Longmire (Swale), 43kg, £75 to Dunbia Class 5 – Rough Fell Lambs Class kindly sponsored by the Rough Fell Sheep Breeders Association 1st – G H Capstick & Sons, Birkhaw, 50kg, £82 to Lancashire Halal Direct 2nd – T,L, B & J Knowles, High Borrowbridge, 44kg, £78 to R Skelton 3rd – A E A Harrison, Boundary Beck, 40kg, £72 to Lancashire Halal Direct.
Champion pen – M E Wannop & Sons, Heaton Hall, 47kg, £155 (329.8p/kg) to R Skelton
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