SKIPTON Auction Mart’s fortnightly midweek retailer lambs fixture on Wednesday, September 22, produced stable commerce and an total promoting common of £88.96 for six,886 head, properly up on the earlier 12 months’s £77.03.
With grass and grazing available country-wide and prospects eager to safe mouths to eat it, all lessons met the necessities of one other packed and well-travelled ringside, with lambs transferring to Scotland, Wales and the complete attain of jap, western and central areas of England.
Texel-x gimmer Lambs offered to £152 from the Cracoe Carlisles, different white-faced gimmers with measurement commonly making £120-£130 and strongest pens of Texel-x shops £100-plus. Tosside brothers Trevor and Clive Robinson at all times do properly at this sale with their Beltex shops and once more led the way in which on worth with a pen of 11 to £148, whereas J Greenwood, Addingham, offered one other pen of 11 to £145. With some high quality items on supply, Beltex lambs met a fierce commerce, the neatest readily making £130-£148.
Mule wether lambs offered to £95 for a pen of fifty from Chris and Christine Ryder, Blubberhouses, the strongest runs of Mule lambs making £88-£95.
The annual present for horned and hill wether lambs was judged by North Lincolnshire mart common Steve Dorey, with Cheviot class winner, Ben Rushmer, Kettlewell, promoting his pen at £88.50, intently adopted at £88 by the second prize winners from J&H Varley, Cowling.
Swaledale lambs offered to £59 for the second prize pen from the Masons at Oddacres, Embsay, simply pipping the primary prize £58 pen from E&E Metcalfe & Son, additionally Cowling, the identical promoting worth additionally falling to the pink rosette-winning Scottish Blackface from Rossendale vendor Alice Fielding, Haslingden. The first prize Dalesbreds from DH Challis, Middlesmoor, made £50.
Horned lambs with measurement have been typically £50-£59, mid-keep lambs £40- £48 and long-keep lambs £25-£42. Individual breed averages: Beltex £110.09, Suffolk £97.85, Texel £93.73, Cheviot £92.89, Mule £79.18, Blue Texel £98, Kerry Hill £69, Masham £76.50, Swaledale £50.74, Dalesbred £43.68.
