SMALLHOLDERS SATURDAY SALE
Monmouthshire Livestock Auctioneers held the inaugural sale of Rare and Minority breed Livestock and Poultry on Saturday 17th September which attracted an entry of over 700 lots with a fantastic array of Livestock and poultry on offer.
The sale commenced with poultry equipment which saw a portable hen house sell for £260 with arcs achieving £125. Equipment was easily sold with feeders, drinkers and poultry crates generally £15 - £30.
The sale of poultry saw in excess of 150 lots offered for sale with all categories easily sold. The highlight of this section was a pair of Emu which sold for £250 each. Large fowl saw Lavender Orpington Pullets achieve £30, Cream Legbar Pullets £26, Marans £21, Wyandottes £21, Buff Sussex £24, Leghorns £22, Welsummers £18.
Waterfowl saw geese achieve £20, White Campbells £19, Coloured Runners £17 and Magpie Calls £25. Bantams sold to £36 for Light Sussex, £26 Silver Wyandottes and £24 Coloured Pekins.
The sale of tools and machinery saw a David Brown 885 achieve £1800, IW livestock trailer £925, Sheep trimming stand £180. The sale also included 110 lots of new small tools and equipment which all sold to a competitive crowd of buyers.
The sale of Rare and Minority Breed Livestock saw an entry of over 400 sheep, 20 pigs, 25 goats and 5 cattle with in excess of 30 breeds represented.
The sale of pigs saw a landrace sow with 13 piglets sell for 380gns. A pedigree British Lop gilt achieved 150gns followed by an Oxford Sandy and Black gilt selling for 145gns.
Pygmy goats sold to 160gns with others at 135gns,130gns, 125gns. Golden Guernsey nannies sold for 60gns.
Just a small entry of cattle saw Galloway x steers 400gns, Whitebred Shorthorn heifers 360gns with a Dexter x heifer and calf 480gns.
Sheep topped at 270gns for a pedigree Jacob ewe lamb. Ryeland yearling ewes sold to 150gns twice with Blue Texel ewes lambs achieving the same price. Ryeland ewe lambs were next best at 130gns and Zwartbles at 100gns. The dispersal sale of Hill Radnors sold to 84gns with others 81gns. Dorset Down sheep achieved 90gns.
An abundance of mountain ewe lambs saw Black Welsh Mountain sell to 55gns, Badger Faced 52gns, Llanwenog 52gns, Hill Radnor 54gns and Herdwicks 49gns.
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