Beeston Female Sale will be held at Beeston Castle on Saturday 5th November.
141 Ewes & Gimmers
45 Ewe Lambs
Important Dispersal Sale of entire Brighthouse Suffolk Flock (JAV)
Approximately 100 head including 2 Stock Rams
Saturday 29th October 2011
Skipton Auction Mart in conjunction with Wright Manley, Beeston Castle
Today I found on Facebook an update of how my ewelambs (exported in june 2011) have grown out in Spain. They seem to enjoy themselves! Many thanks for the photo’s Andres!
Op de laatste rammenveiling bleek dat schapenhouders bereid zijn meer te betalen voor indexrammen. Zie onderstaand artikel op Stackyard.
Demand High for Performance at Kelso Ram Sales
2011-09-14
An optimistic mood at the annual Cydectin Kelso Ram Sales, on Friday 9th September, resulted in the average increasing £27 to a new record of £649 per head.
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4457 rams sold through 14 auction rings for £2,895,770.
Despite the damp start to the day there was the usual flurry of high-flying prices, but most buyers were being selective, with the end result that more than 10% of rams returned home unwanted.
Jack Clark, managing director of auctioneer John Swan, said: “It was the top half who had the bigger lift.”
For Rod McKenzie, of the Scottish Sheep Strategy Group, the sale was a “complete vindication” of the work that many breeders were now putting in to record the performance of their ram lambs.
He claimed that the commercial producers, the majority of Kelso buyers, were now picking out lambs on the performance figures. “The scheme is beginning to pay off. Prices for good performance rams are now £200 to £300 per head above the average and that is a telling amount of cash.”
£15,000 was paid for Grey Peel Rambo, a Texel shearling from Messrs MS & C Hardy-Bishop and sold to Bruce Goldie, Townfoot, Mouswold, Edward Fox, Elsdonburn, Wooler, and Jonathon Watson, Bowsden Moor, Berwick on Tweed. Rambo was in the top 1 per cent of the breed in breeding value and he had taken the breed prize at the Border Union show.
The best Bluefaced Leicester price of the day was paid for a Tanhouse B4 son from Messrs Hall, Lilyburn Firth which sold to Crowhall farms, Hexham for £6,500.
In the ram lambs, top call was £5000 for a Suffolk from Iain Barbour, Solwaybank. A son of the 12000gns Rhaeadr Rastafari out of a Perrinpit Physique mother, he sold to James Rooney and Gerry Killilea.
At the recent sale in Kelso we bought two new rams for our Specop and Mattemburgh.
We are very happy to add Drinkstone Top Muscle 2010 to our team. He is the third highest index stock ram in the breed with an index of 5.84 and a muscle depth of 6.9. He was by far the highest index ram sold at Kelso.
As a lamb he was CT scanned with a impressing eyemuscle as well in depth as width.
We were also very lucky to buy a very smart lamb by Strathisla Sinatra from the Sitlow flock of Steve Buckley. He is 45Z:11:057 out of a Didcot Dynamic sired ewe.
Strathisla Sinatra (FNV:A2) sold 3.800 gns
Posted in Specop
Tagged Drinkstone Top Muscle 2010, High Index, Mattemburgh, Signet, Sitlow, Specop, Stock rams, Strathisla Sinatra
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At Kelso I bought the best ramlamb out of the Westmuir pen. He is a homeberd Westmuir ewe and his sire is Rhaeadr Reliant (Baileys Brigadier).
It is a fine ram with a good skin and colour. Enough length and a smart head. I bought him for one off my Italian customers, so he will be off to the south as soon as he is eligible for export.
Specop Contador was sold to Spain a few months ago. He is doing well according to the weblog of his new owner!
NUEVO SEMENTAL PARA EL REBAÑO SUFFOLK SIERO
SPECOP CONTADOR ( PFD:11:016)
SIRE: CAIRNESS CARBON
DAM: 45Z:L130 BY TOMCROFT FUSION
G.DAM: 45Z:F30 BY STRATHISLA SINATRA
En estas imágenes les mostramos el nuevo semental adquirido para nuestro rebaño. Se trata de uno de los hijos de Cairness Carbon nacido en 2011.
Here is the first catalogue I received for the sale at Kelso. It is from the Essie flock of Irene Fowlie. She will be selling 20 shearlings mostly by Drinkstone Heavy Weight and the homebred Essie Kudu and Essie Lancelot.
You can download the catalogue here: Kelso Catalogue 2011
Plans are well advanced for the 2011 Sales with a healthy entry of 5269 rams, up slightly on last year’s figure of 5233. The buoyancy of the sheep industry is giving Breeders confidence and there is certainly plenty of choice on Friday 9th September with representation from seventeen Breeds ranging from 1791 Texels to 2 Chamoise. The numbers of other Breeds to be offered for Sale are 1311 Suffolk, 563 Bluefaced Leicister, 397 Charollais, 160 Beltex, 144 Lleyn, 93 North Country Cheviot, 88 Border Leicester, 23 Berricon du Cher, 18 Hampshire Down, 15 Oxford, 10 Vendeen, 9 Poll Dorset, 7 Millennium Bleu, 6 Easycare and 5 Dutch Texel. There are also 627 Crosses, 381 of which are MV Accredited. These will sell in 14 Rings simultaneously by nine Auction Companies – Border Livestock Exchange, Cumberland & Dumfriesshire Farmers Mart, Glendale Livestock, Harrison & Hetherington, Hexham & Northern, Lawrie & Symington, North East Livestock Sales, John Swan Ltd and United Auctions. Once again the large double marquees will house the rams and all the Sale Rings will be under cover ready for the Secretary, Ronald Wilson, to ring the bell traditionally at precisely 10 o’clock to start the Sale. Continue reading