On Wednesday, Mitchells Livestock Centre, Cockermouth, held their weekly sale of primestock with 32 Cattle comprising of 1 Prime Cattle and 31 cast cows: 888 sheep including 655 prime lambs and 233 cast ewes and rams.
A Tremendous Blonde cow from PT & SM Hewitson, Byresteads topped the sale at £2000.43 this cow also achieved the top pence per kilo at 279ppk in the cast cow section.
Today we had a larger show of dairy cows forward – selling to a good demand selling to a top of £1517.40 from JD Hetherington & Sons, Blue Dial Farm.
Prime Heifers sold to a top of £1615.60 for a Limousin from Ms Gray & Sons, East Mill this also took top pence per kilo honours of the day at 280ppk.
Cast Cows –
Blonde d’Aquitaine – 2000.43 (279ppk) Byresteads Farm. British Blue – 1694.80 (223ppk), 1621.10 (215ppk) Mid Farm, 1353.78 (207ppk), 1193.25 (185ppk), 1112.40 (180ppk) Parkhouse Farm, 1279.88 (196ppk) Rakefoot. Holstein – 1517.40(180ppk), 1033.34 (154ppk) Blue Dial, 1436.32 (188ppk), 1160.58 (174ppk) Dubbs Farm, 1141.80 (173ppk), 963.38 (151ppk) Lowca Cottage Farm. Limousin – 1451.40 (205ppk) Aikbank, 1410.75 (225ppk), 1305.62 (194ppk) Burthwaite Farm. Aberdeen Angus – 1269.10 (185ppk) Aikbank.
OTM Heifer –
Limousin – 1295.19 (243ppk) East Mill Farm. Aberdeen Angus – 1216.38 (194ppk) Aikbank.
Prime Heifer –
Limousin – 1615.60 (280ppk) East Mill Farm.
A smaller show of ewes was forward on the week due to back end sheep sales.
Well fleshed fitter ewes are still easy to sell to a demand with leaner fell ewes at less money, but taking quality into consideration.
Cull Ewes (per head - £):
Texel – 184 East Townend, 182 High Farm, 176, 172, 168, 162, 160, 158, 151, 140, 138, 132, 125 x2 Briary Bank, 168 Drigg Moorside, 166 Old Hyton Farm, 156 Hundith Hill, 132 Waterloo Farm, 128 x2 The How, 120 Low Kinmont. Beltex – 158 Sally Hill. Lleyn – 135 Corney Hall. Charolais – 130 Hundith Hill. Mule – 127 East Townend, 114 Old Hyton Farm, 108, 92 Syke Beck. Cheviot – 110, 78 Stonecroft. Bluefaced Leicester – 104 Low Kinmont, 96 Wythop Hall. Kerryhill – 104 Low Kinmont. Texel x Herdwick – 86 x2Whinnah Lodge. Scottish Blackface – 78 Whinnah Lodge. Herdwick – 70 Ponsonby Old Hall, 70 Low Eskholme Farm. Swaledale – 68 Syke Beck, 52, 51 Low Kinmont.
Cull Rams (per head - £):
Beltex – 144, 129 Corney Hall. Texel – 128 Acrelands Farm, 127 Corney Hall.
The old 6 day stand still limited the lamb entry following on from our successful breeding sheep sales at the end of last week. Well finished lambs continued to demand a premium, lambs lacking in condition were harder to sell this resulted in a overall average of 286.6ppk which is inline with recent market trends.
Prime Lambs (Top price per head - £):
Texel – 192 Grange Grasssings, 191 High Bewaldeth, 180, 176 x2, 172, 163 x2 High Flatts, 176, 154, 143 Mid Farm, 173, 141 Bell House Farm, 168, 150, 144, 143, 138 Corney Hall, 167, 144 Beechcroft, 164, 135 Whinnerah, 159, 158, 145, 139 Hundith Hill, 150 Shatton Lodge Close, 147, 138 Drigg Moorside, 146 Lamplugh Hall, 144 Crooklands Farm, 140, 139, 137 Dearham Row, 139 x2 High Low Hall, 136 Station House, 135 High Bewaldeth, 135 East House. Mule – 145 Crooklands, 131, 125 Ellenbank, 126 Low House, 120 Beechcroft. Suffolk – 140 Low House. Zwartble – 130 Ullock Mains. Texel x Herdwick – 128 Grange Grassings. Swaledale – 120 Beechcroft.
Prime Lambs (Top price per kilo – pence):
Texel – 382, 300 High Bewaldeth, 369.2 Grange Grassings, 345.1, 308, 297.9 Mid Farm, 343.5, 323.3, 309.3 x2, 302.1 Hundith Hill, 334.7 Whinnerah, 333.3, 318 High Flatts, 332.7,313.3 Bell House Farm, 330.8, 320, 313.5 x2 High Flatts, 317.8, 317, 312.5, 306.7, 300 Corney Hall, 313 x2 Drigg Moorside, 313, 310.5 Crooklands Farm, 308.9, 297.8 Dearham Row, 307.3 High Farm, 306.1 Shatton Lodge Close, 303.6 Beechcroft, 302.6 Newhouse Farm, 300 Lamplugh Hall, 300 Low Eskholme, 300 Drigg Moorside, 295.7 High Low Hall. Suffolk – 291.7 Low House. Texel x Herdwick – 287.5 Ponsonby Old Hall. Mule – 284.8, 266 Ellenbank, 273.6 Crooklands Farm, 267 Beechcroft, 163 Swinside End Farm. Swaledale – 255.3 Beechcroft. Zwartble – 228.1 Ullock Mains.