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Breeding & Store Cattle Saturday Market Report for Saturday 29th February 2020 Forward: 272 Breeding & Store Cattle to £1600 117 Breeding & Store Pigs to £180 351 Breeding Sheep to £265 157 Store Hoggs to £86 462 Cast Sheep to £172 Avg. £100 overall 809 Prime Hoggs to £170 or 327ppk BREEDING & STORE CATTLE Auctioneer: Jack Pickup Clerk : Eleanor O’Neill Today saw the Marts the Heart sponsored show of store cattle. Champion and Reserve alike went to C & GA Guy, Colne. The Judge Emma Walton gave the homebred British Blue steer top honours and was taken to £1120 by G Booth. A fantastic entry of 272 animals went on to find new homes. Trade for the younger sorts was the highlight, with 8-10month old goods most in demand. COW & CALF With bull calf Top (£) Ave£ With heifer calf Top (£) Ave £ Blonde d’Aq 1600 JP Stansfield Ltd 1455 960 JP Stansfield Ltd 960 Limousin 1600 JP Stansfield Ltd 1455 960 JP Stansfield Ltd 960 FEEDING CATTLE Ave £ Angus 650 J Feather 505 Beef Shorthorn 780 B&V Lancaster & Sons 780 British Blue 840 R & B Nuter 800 British Friesian 620 B&V Lancaster & Sons 620 NEXT STORE CATTLE SALE: Limousin 800 Brogden Farms 725 Simmental 1100 M Kilgannon 712 Saturday 14th March IN-CALF CATTLE Ave £ at 10.30am Angus 1000 R & E Pollard 1000 including Sale of Young Handlers BREEDING BULLS Top price (£) Ave £ Overwintering Entries Charolais 1220 AJ Bretherton 1200 STORE BULLS Top price (£) Av £ Catalogue entries to Angus x 690 B&V Lancaster 690 Beef Shorthorn 715 A Thompson 715 01200 445376 Black & White 410 Ian Metcalf 410 by Monday 9th March Blonde d’Aq 800 John Bosworth 800 British Blue 810 A Smith 659 for advertising & penning please Charolais 740 J & J Baron 720 Hereford 710 Ian Metcalf 570 Limousin 925 R & B Nutter 753 Simmental 780 John Bosworth 695 STORES STEERS Top price (£) Ave £ HEIFERS Top price (£) Ave £ Angus x 930 RW Gregson 795 830 RW Gregson 617 Bazadaise 1020 J Wood 1020 960 J Wood 733 Blonde d’Aq. 720 JP Stansfield Ltd 720 910 JP Stansfield Ltd 772 Beef Shorthorn 710 A Thompson 705 Black & White 790 J Bowen & Sons 658 830 G Abbott 830 Blue Grey 725 I Taylor 725 British Blue 1120 C & GA Guy 904 1180 C & GA Guy 771 Charolais x 945 W Thomlinson 928 940 W Thomlinson 855 Hereford x 915 GM & SC Pickles 673 860 R & CA Sanderson 7161140 Limousin 1140 D Marsh 796 1000 R Holt 744 Stabiliser 640 A Rayton 607 Full report and pictures to follow Class 1 – Best Store Young Bull Lot 129 Lot 122 Lot 125 R & B Nutter JV Aspin & Son JV Aspin & Son Limousin £925 Limousin £920 Limousin £905 Class 2 – Best Store Steer Lot 399 Lot 467 Lot 387 C & GA Guy D Marsh J Wood British Blue £1020 British Blue £1120 British Blue £1124 Class 3 – Best Store Heifer Lot 402 Lot 391 Lot 313 C & GA Guy DM & RE Capstick R Whitfield British Blue £1180 Limousin £960 Limousin BREEDING & STORE PIGS Auctioneer: Jack Pickup 117 pigs forward met a good trade. Weaners topped at £44 for Gloucester Old Spots from Alan Bancroft. Prime pigs well sold well to a high of £180 for Large White gilts from Fortunes, Tosside. NEXT SALE on 14th March PIGS Top price (£) Average (£) Weaners 44 A & J Bancroft 37 Stores 72 B & LN Dibb 53 Prime 180 H W Fortune 99 Sow 65 David Hollin 65 PRIME & CAST SHEEP Auctioneer: John Prickett Clerk: Amanda Simpson 809 hoggs forward to an average of 221ppk. Top price of 327ppk came for R & Critchley for a pen of 8 Beltex and top sale price of £170 per head for JL North’s Texel selling to Ian Townson. CP Hodgson bought the next highest sale price of £150 from the same home. 462 ewes forward with 12 buyers bidding to an unbelievable overall average of £100 per head, exceptional as some ewes were just £15 per head. See below for full details of an excellent trade with buyers requiring more numbers. Top price of £172 came for JL North’s Texel ewe followed by another at £168. Mule ewes made to £116 with the majority over £100. Tups saw an unbelievable trade also. Saturdays at Gisburn is the place for all your ewes. We thank you for your support.. John Prickett 07713075662 PRIME Avg Top Sale Price (£) Top Kilo Price (ppk) HOGGS £ ppk Upto 32kgs 69 R & VJ Brown 235.7 J Day 64 218 32.1- 39kgs 111 R & H Critchley 326.5 R & H Critchley 84 231 39.1-45.5kgs 140 AL Thompson 311.1 AL Thompson 94 220 45.6-52kgs 135 AL Thompson 293.5 AL Thompson 103 212 52.1+kgs 170 JL North 283.3 JL North 113 205 Overall Prime OSL Average 222.1ppk. Overall OSL Price £94 Beltex 140 AL Thompson 326.5 R & H Critchley 108 294 BF Leicester 86 MJ & G Taylor 205 MJ & G Taylor 86 205 Charollais 110 H & F Eccles & Son 253 Charnleys Waller Cl. 87 225 Gritstone 91 T Fryars 214.5 J Peel 87 207 Herdwick 73 R Caton 221.5 R Caton 69 202 Horned 100 D Breaks 217.5 M Brammall 78 192 Kerry Hill 78 AB Foster 208.5 AB Foster 78 209 Lonk 90 D Mullin 204 D Mullin 80 204 Mule 112 K & J Beecroft 220.5 J Moore 89 208 Rough 113 MJ Forster 196 J Peel 94 195 Ryeland 85 S Rawcliffe 229 J Day 77 206 Suffolk 113 H & F Eccles & Son 227.5 M Schofield 89 215 Swaledale 92 MJ & G Taylor 205.85 DM & SV Throup 71 193 Texel 170 JL North 283.5 JL North 96 231 Texel (teeth) 200 JM Sharp 200 JM Sharp 88 187 CULL SHEEP Top Sale Price (£) Avg (£) Horned 95 M Brammall 66 Lowland 172 JL North 100 Cont Tups 158 A & P Massey 110 Horned Tups 130 Ashfield Farms 109 Goats 58 BM Hopkinson 58 BY BREED BFL tups 75 Ashfield Farms 75 Cheviot tups 130 Ashfield Farms 124 Jacob tups 96 Ashfield Farms 96 Swale tups 92 Ashfield Farms 92 Texel tups 158 A & P Massey 113 Beltex 152 JB Airey & sons 151 BF Leicester 92 Jack Shepherd 84 Blue Texel 121 PT Barnsley 121 Cheviot 130 Ashfield Farms 74 Dalesbred 68 J Ludbrook 64 Easycare 82 Westalls 82 Gritstone 90 S & PJ Scriven 82 Hampshire 68 B Dibb 68 Herdwick 95 M Brammall 72 Lonk 88 S & PJ Scriven 82 Masham 98 G Beaumont 98 Mule 116 94 Ryeland 86 BM Hopkinson 82 SBF 48 R Caton 48 Suffolk 132 L Mellin 101 Swaledale 92 Ashfield Farms 59 Texel 172 JL North 104 Zwartble 120 G Rowlands 120 YOUNG HANDLERS HOGG SHOW & SALE OVERALL CHAMPION Was John North with his Texel gimmer weighing in at 53kg and realising £150, or 283ppk selling to C. P. Hodgson (full media presentation next week) Class 1 – Continental prime hogg presented by young handler under the age of 10yo 1st John North 53kg Texel £150 2nd Izzy Thompson 46kg Black £135 3rd Thomas Thompson 45kg Beltex £140 4th Jack Brierley 54kg Beltex £130 Class 2 – Native prime hogg presented by young handler under the age of 10yo 1st Ella Jackson 54kg Mule £110 2nd Matthew Jackson 46kg Mule £96 Class 3 – Continental prime hogg presented by young handler over the age of 10yo 1st Isobel North 60kg Texel £170 2nd Ellie Forster 50kg Texel £122 3rd Sian Atkinson 53kg Texel £110 4th Hector Eccles 49kg Texel £112 Class 4 – Native prime hogg presented by young handler over the age of 10yo 1st Matthew Mullin 49kg Cheviot £98 2nd Ellie Forster 60kg Rough Fell £113 3rd Ryan Hewitt 60kg Rough Fell £113 4th Tom Panter 44kg Mule £89 BREEDING & STORE SHEEP Auctioneer: Rachel Capstick Clerk: Ann Faraday No world record prices for the 3 sheep dog pups! The rather shy looking 12 week olds fetched £230 for the dog and £110 a piece for the couple of bitches!! In spite of the weather, sheep with lambs at foot were keenly contested for the better outfits, particularly if the lambs were a decent size. Chris Craven’s first outing of the year to Gisburn saw him top the market with double outfits of Suffolk x and Texel x ewes with twins at £265, £260, £255 & £252 x 2. More commercial types £220’s. The best single outfit came up from Derbyshire, a pedigree 2 crop Blue Texel ewe with a tup lamb at foot sold for £215. Commerical types regularly £160-£180. In lamb ewes followed with plenty of choice for everyone: Cheviot ewes due end March to £135. Texels from Penrith to £158. Alan Greenwoods’s correct Blue Texel ewes due mid April sold for £152 to keen Settle College pupil and Rathmell YFC member Ellie Forster, who had earlier competed in the Young Handlers Prime Hogg competition. Four crop April lambing mules sold to £128. The better Texel Hoggs sold to £152. Commercial Mule hoggs generally either side of £100. The store hoggs which followed were a super trade for the goods on offer today – the majority being longer term projects. An overall average of £72 was a very good result, including little Hebrideans at £30 and Herdwicks in the £40s, which would bring the average back. Next Saturday 7th March is cast sheep and prime hoggs only, then from 14th March onwards we return to weekly sales of sheep with lambs at foot until further notice. Vendors please remember to pre-enter anticipated numbers by the Tuesday lunchtime for the penning, ballot and catalogue.
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