Cast & Store Sheep
Hexham Auction Mart
Cast Ewes
Hexham and Northern Marts sold 957 Cast Ewes & Rams at their weekly sale. The overall number of ewes included a number of plainer feeding types, selling well throughout although no dearer on the week.
Texel ewes from Chapel House topped the sale at £165. Mule ewes peaked at £110 from Newonstead. Rams were topped by Messrs G & E A Herdman, Lunns Houses for a pen of Texel rams selling to £170, with Messrs BN & S Urwin, Lynnshields also selling a Cast Tup, this time a Cheviot to £160.
Texel – £165 Chapel House
Texel x -£150 Bankfoot, £147 Errington Red House, £146 Chapel House, £139 Longhurst, £136 Halfway House, £130 Newonstead
Suffolk – £126 The Tofts
Suffolk x – £140 Newonstead, £139 St James Garden
Beltex x – £138 Errington Red House
Leicester-£116 Bankfoot
Cheviot – £72 Bankfoot
Cheviot Mule-£105 Shaftoe Moor
Dutch Spotted x– £122 Wallhouse Farming
Mule – £110 Newonstead, £108 Rusheylaw & Little Whittington, £105 Matfen Estates, £100 South Farm, £95 East Broomshiels
Blackface – £89 Hole Farm, £87 Rusheylaw
Cast Tups
Texel – £170 Lunns House
Cheviot- £160 Lynnshield
Store Lambs
A nice show of lambs forward on Kelso Ram sale day, a sharp trade with some Vendors £5 dearer on the week. Topping today’s sale was a Texel cross from Low Chesterhope at £133. Beltex crosses sold to £120 from Close Head and Suffolk crosses to £114 from Old School House. Burdonside topped the mules today with a penful selling to £89, while a nice pen of Mules from Harwood Shield sold to £81.
Texel x – £133 Low Chesterhope, £123 Birkside, £116 Settlingstones, £114 Kirkley Hall & Glower-Oer-Him, £113.50 Low Carriteth, £112 Glendue, £110 Horneystead, £109 The Bungalow & Low Chesterhope (x2), £108.50 Glendue, £108 Hetherington & Burdonside
Suffolk x – £114 The Old School House, £113 Kirkley Hall, £110 The Old School House, £109 Laburnum Cottage (x2), Burdonside & Settlingstones, £107 Nafferton Farm
Beltex x – £120 Closehead, £107 Stanton Town Head, £105.50 Glower-Oer-Him
Mule – £89 Burdonside, £81 Harwood Shield
Dutch Texel- £97 Gleedlee
Blackface – £60 Burdonside