Scots Gap Primestock

Prime Sheep

Prime Lambs

Scots Gap Auction Mart at their weekly sale sold prime lambs to £140 and cast sheep to £195.

Heavy weight Texel cross lambs from Messrs J F Johnson & Son, Tuthill sold to the leading price, with Suffolks from the same home to £128. Mules topped at £115 from Mrs E Bertram, Coldwell. 

The entire entry of lambs averaged £120.21 for 50.7kg.

Leading prices;

Texel x –£140, £135 & £132 Tuthill, £130 & £126.50 Brinkburn Newhouses, £122 Coldwell & Holling Hill (x2), £120 Flotterton, £118 Rugley Walls, £116 Coldwell, £115 Rugley Walls

253.3p Brinkburn Newhouses, 250.0p Flotterton, 248.0p Brinkburn Newhouses, 246.5p Forestburngate, 245.8p Brinkburn Newhouses, 244.9p Flotterton, 244.3p Forestburngate, 244.0p Holling Hill, 240.8p Rugley Walls, 240.7p Brinkburn Newhouses

Suffolk x –£128 Tuthill (x2), Holling Hill & Flotterton

244.3p Forestburngate, 241.5p Flotterton, 231.4p Holling Hill, 228.6p Tuthill

Cheviot Mule-£114 Flotterton

Mule –£115 Coldwell, £114 Holling Hill, £107.50 Flotterton

244.3p Flotterton, 234.7p Coldwell, 228.0p Holling Hill

Prime Ewes

Texel x –£195 & £138 (x2) East Beechfield

Suffolk x-£138 East Beechfield

Mule-£116 East Beechfield