Hundith Flock Success Continues

There’s no stopping the big money heading the way of Jack and Adam Lawson this season as their Bluefaced Leicester tup lambs continued their remarkable run with another top price of ÂŁ2800 at the breed association’s show and sale at Carlisle.

 

 

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This father and son partnership from Wigton, Cumbria led the trade at the association’s Hawes fixture three weeks ago at ÂŁ11,500 where they averaged eight tup lambs at ÂŁ2750 and topped the market at the breed’s Penrith sale last week at ÂŁ4200.

 

This latest run of success by Lawson’s Hundith flock – established 60 years ago and currently numbering 40 pedigree ewes – can be traced back to the influence of a tup bought from the Kentmere Hall flock some years ago.

 

Now an aged tup, he cost ÂŁ2400 at Lazonby and has bred “exceptionally well” at Hundith leaving some outstanding females. Two years ago the Lawsons were part of a three-way split to pay ÂŁ8500 for a Midlock tup lamb at the Hawes sale and it’s the combination of the breeding of these two sires that has delivered this year’s great crop of lambs..

 

 

The ÂŁ2800 top Carlisle bid came from a split deal to north Yorkshire buyers A Hutchinson, Thirsk and James Porter, Richmond. The tup was full brother to a lamb sold privately last year and whose Mule lams reached ÂŁ170 at Carlisle this season.

 

The other Hundith lambs made ÂŁ2400 to W Sutcliffe, Settle, north Yorkshire and ÂŁ1850 to S Mawson and Son, Keswick.

 

Averages: five aged rams ÂŁ192; 84 shearling rams ÂŁ444; 210 ram lambs ÂŁ493; three ewes ÂŁ383; 11 shearling ewes ÂŁ353 and seven ewe lambs ÂŁ275. (Harrison and Hetherington).