BARNARD CASTLE AUCTION MART WEDNESDAY 11TH DECEMBER 2019
SALE OF PRIME LAMBS & CAST SHEEP
ALSO CHRISTMAS PRIZE SHOW & SALE OF PRIME LAMBS
Sold this week 1270 Prime lambs Live & Deadweight and 198 Cast Sheep
Live weight Lambs averaged 188p (198.52ppk sqq)
The Christmas Prize Show and Sale of Prime Lambs was judged by Mick Etherington, Otley who awarded the Championship to a superb pen of 5 Dutch Texel Lambs from ER Thompson, High Corn Park, Cotherstone, Barnard Castle these lambs weighed 44.5kg and were sold for £150, 337ppk to Yorkshire Halal Meats Supplier Ltd.
Pictured above L-R Judge Mick Etherington and Vendor Eddie Thompson, with Champion Lambs
PRIZE LIST Continental Lambs: 1st & Champion – ER Thompson, High Corn Park, Cotherstone - £150 (337ppk) 2nd - ER Thompson, High Corn Park, Cotherstone - £135 (318ppk) 3rd - K&RE Robson, Friarcote, Staindrop, Darlington - £92
Pictured above Judge Mick Etherington with 3rd Prize Lambs and three generations of the Robson Family (Friarcote) Ken, John and Jasper
Mule Lambs: 1st – N&R Hird, Gillfield, Hunderthwaite, Barnard Castle - £92 2nd - K Lawson, Loch Bank, Sedbergh - £80
Top price per kilo and per head were the Champion pen from ER Thompson, High Corn Park at £150 & 337ppk
Other leading Prices per Kilo: 318p, 221p ER Thompson (tex) 236p, 210p C&MJ Ford (tex) 236p, 211p, 196p, 192p AWSM Farms (tex) 222.5p, 198p JD&D Donald & Son (belt) 222p, 206.5p, 199.5p K&RE Robson (belt) 209p GW Dent (belt) 203p, 189p, 184p C Brown (tex) 202p, 198p, 191.5p S Richardson (cont) 200.5p J&S Stanwix (cont) 199.5p, 193p A Peart & Son (cont) 195p, 194p D Sizer (char) 192p R Wearmouth (cont) 192p JE Tallentire & Son (cont) 192p, 184p R Carter (cont) 192p N&R Hird (cont) 189p K Lawson (cont) 189p M Hennessy (cont) 187p M&R Lawson (cont) 186p JG Stanwix & Son (cont) Mule Lambs to 180p K Lawson Swale Lambs to 170p N&R Hird Rough Fell Lambs to 167p M&R Lawson
Other Leading prices per head; £135, £99.20 ER Thompson (Dutch Tex) £106, £88.20 (x2) £85.20, £82.20 AWSM Farms (tex) £99, £83.80 C&MJ Ford (Tex) £96.80, £85.80 D Sizer (char) £95.80, £89.80 GW Dent (belt) £92, £90.20, £80 (x2) N&R Hird (mule/belt/cont) £92, £88.80, £86.80 £85.80 K&RE Robson (belt) £91.80m £90.20, £88.80 JG Stanwix & Son (cont) £91, £86.80 £86.20, £84.80, £83.80 £83.20 S Richardson (cont) £90 JD&D Donald & Son (belt) £89.50 S Cambage (cont) £88.80 B Sartin (tex) £88.80, £88.20 £82.80 M Hennessy (cont) £86.80 C Brown (cont) £86.20, £82.20 J&S Stanwix (cont) £85.80 D Sizer (char) £85.80, £85 K Lawson (cont/mule) £85, £82.80, £81.80 A Peart & Son (cont) £83.80 DE Stones (cont) £81.80 FR Tallentire (mule) £80 M&R Lawson (rough fell) Mule Lambs to £92 N&R Hird Swale Lambs to £70 N&R Hird Rough Fell Lambs to £80 M&R Lawson
CAST SHEEP
Top priced ewes were a pen of Texels at £107.50 from JB&JA Fenwick, Eastholme, Barnard Castle, purchased by Yorkshire Halal Meat Suppliers, followed by £103.50 for a pen of Continental ewes from the same home.
Other Leading Prices Ewes;
Continental £99.50 L Brown £97.50, £87.50 (x2) £70.50 DA&AM Gill £87.50 DH Ettey & Son £85.50 JB&JA Fenwick £83.50 M Hennessy Cheviot £80.50 DA&AM Gill Mule £82.50 M Hennessy £81.50 JB&JA Fenwick £80.50 L Brown £77.50, £68.50 DA&AM Gill £77.50, £72.50 RG Stobbs £67.50 CA&J Kipling £64.50 A Peart & Son Swale £63.50 JW Dent & Sons £61.50 DA&AM Gill £54.50, £44.50 M Fenwick £54.50 Dowson & Sartin £48.50 DH Ettey & Son Roughs £53.50 M&R Lawson
Rams to £91.50 for a Blue Faced Leicester from JC&A Metcalf, Thirnbank, Darlington