Welsh pigs lead the trade at Beeston

Pedigree pigs sold to a high of 520gns at Beeston Castle last week, with this top bid made for the reserve breed champion in the Welsh, gilt Burry Emma 238 from E W Austin.

This one sold to D A and C L Owens, St Clears, Carmarthenshire, with two litter sisters from

the same home making 490 gns each and both in?pig to Cranerow Workman 3. These were from the Theresa line and sold respectively to D C Houldey, Lockerbie and G I and M Mault, Corwen.

Helen Tongue, Devauden, Chepstow, sold a member of her Daffodil family to the sale’s volume

buyer Joe Hilling?Leigh of Tushingham, Whitchurch for 480gns.

Welsh Boars sold to 430gns for an entry from R A Windsor, Nantwich selling to W D and R E Edwards and son, Oswestry, and Welsh maiden gilts sold to 500gns for a member of the very rare Elenora family consigned by AP Schofield, Market Rasen, Lincolnshire, and selling to B Mulkeen, North Ashton, Wigan.

Averages; six Welsh boars £332.50; 19 Welsh in?pig gilts £365.29; six Welsh maiden gilts £260.75; one Large White boar £210.00; five Large White in?pig gilts £189; four Landrace in?pig gilts £304.50; one Duroc in?pig gilt £441; one Hampshire boar £273 (Wright Manley)