Demand at Kington for meated hoggets

McCartney’s of Kington reported a good entry of 2,136 sheep at last week’s sale.

More than 1,800 hogget’s were forward which sold to a good trade on the week, but slightly easier than the previous weeks trade. The supply of hoggets has increased over the past week due to the better trade. There is a significant difference in the trade between well meated and half meated hoggets and auctioneers say it is well worth selecting the hoggets which are well meated. Demand has remained steady but numbers in the last week has caught up with demand.

Demand was good for all weights and meated lambs sold to a significant premium.

The top price hogget’s were £98.50 a head for some 55kg hogget’s from B and M Chilman.

All the hogget’s at Kington averaged 1.99p/kg up to 2.12p/kg.

Hogget’s between 32kg and 39kg averaged 1.90p/kg up to 1.95p/kg

Hogget’s between 39.5kg and 45.5kg averaged 2.02p/kg up to 2.12p/kg

Hogget’s between 46kg and 52kg averaged 1.88p/kg up to 1.95p/kg

Hogget’s over 52kg averaged 1.80p/kg up to 1.85p/kg

Some 39kg hogget’s from T Hughes and Sons made £73, 40kg hogget’s from J E Griffiths and Sons made £82.80, 41kg hogget’s from A M and G J Probert made £85.70, 42kg hogget’s from W H Lyke made £87, 43kg hogget’s from W H Lyke made £88, 45kg hogget’s from B and E Hammond made £90, 49kg hogget’s from T I and G M Edmunds made £94.50, 50kg hoggets from W D Layton and Sons made £92.80, 53kg hogget’s from W H Lyke made £96.20, 56kg hogget’s from C M and W C Philip made £98.50

There was a better entry of 336 cull ewes selling to a level trade on the week. Again same as the hoggets well meated ewes sold to a significant premium. Smaller hill type ewes were a good trade for the export market as long as they were meated.

The ewes sold to a top of £99 for some Suffolk x ewes from D R and M G Williams and all the ewes averaged £62 a head with many hill and thin ewes forward. Tups and weathers sold to £81 and averaged £68. The cull ewes included a large proportion of thinner mule ewes and smaller hill ewes.