Kelso tup sales trade round up
Top call at Friday’s Kelso tup sales was a £12,000 bid for a Texel from Peter and Lynn Gray, Galston. It sold to Angus Kennedy, Mitchelhill and the Carruther family, Silloan.
Next best was a Bluefaced Leicster at £10,000. This one was from first time Kelso vendors John and George Browell, Hexham. Their champion from the pre-sale show is by a Firth tup and sold to John Kerr, Maybole.
Then at £8000 was the best Suffolk of the day from Robbie Wilson, Turriff. This was a son of Strahbeg Stan the Man and sold to Niall Walsh Co Laois, Eire.
And at £5800 was another Texel, this time a lamb from Jimmy Douglas, Cairness. By the same sire as the world record priced sheep, this one sold in a two way split to Tom Bailey, Culcommon, Eire, and Andrew Pinny, Northampton, for their Baileys and Alloaks flocks respectively.
Also at this money was a Suffolk from Mark Evans, West Yorkshire. This son of Stathisla Soldier of Fortune sold to Norman Robinson, Ballyrolly, Downpatrick.
A brace of Texel shearlings from Brian McTaggart, Douganhill Farms sold for £4000. The first sold to Peter Londin, Doncaster, and the second sold to Mr Probert, Leominster.
Selling for £3400 was another Blueface, a shearling from the Wight family, Midlock. This one was reserve champion in the pre-sale show and sold to Robert Loughery, Limvady, Northern Ireland.
Top among the Beltex types on offer was a £2000 call for a Beltex x Texel from John Campbell, Thrunton. This sold to Jim Buchan, Lintrathen.
Topping the pure Beltex was Jock Mc Millan, Newton Stewart with a shearling which sold to R Hamilton.
Best among the Charollais was a £1000 bid for a shearling from the Paterson family, Upper Auchenlay. This sold to Jim Sutherland, Lauder.
Overall the trade look’s like it reflected the confidence coming from the sheep sector on the back of good lamb prices so far this year. Averages were strong, and buyers were in a mood to invest in the best they could afford. Vendor of the largest run, Malcolm Stewart, Brotherstone, sold 85 Suffolk shearlings to level at £576, with the overall average for the 4185 rams traded finishing the day at £569.39, £111.83 up on last year.
Shearling averages; 57 Beltex £573.86, four Berrichon du Cher £430, 517 Bluefaced Leicester £677.21, 44 Border Leicester £599.09, 238 Charollais £446.34, four Dutch Texel £510, 17 Hampshire Down £304.71, 68 Lleyn £434.41, 10 Bleu du Maine £455, 66 North Country Cheviot £422.42, 10 Oxford Down £249, 499 Suffolk £569.50, 1187 Texel £608.58, six Vendeen £511.67.
Lamb averages; three Beltex £840, nine Berrrichon du Cher £283.33, 23 Bluefaced Leicester £517.39, 44 Charollais £371.82, 328 Suffolk £477.61, 91 Texel £373.63.
That’s all I’ve got for now, but more will hopefully follow later….