The Courier & Advertiser (Fife Edition)
Top price paid for Texel ram lamb at Carlisle
Lyle family of Leven shell out 4,500gn for Caryl’s Blues Cracker at Northern Supreme Sale of Blue Texels – where Scottish breeders were out in force
Scottish breeders were out in force at the Northern Supreme Sale of Blue Texels in Carlisle.
Fife breeders, the Lyle family from Nether Pratis Farm, Leven, paid the top price of 4,500gn for their Viewforth flock for a February-born ram lamb from Welsh farmer Caryl Howells.
Caryl’s Blues Cracker is an ET son of imported sire Beili Blues Peter, and out of an imported dam.
The Lyles recouped some of their spend when they sold three-year-old ram Millend Yeehaa for 1,000gn.
By Hackney X-Rated and out of a Millend dam, he sold to Messrs Morris & Co, Welshpool, Powys.
Next best in the male section at 3,200gn was February-born ram lamb Tap O Noth Cassanova from Deborah Atkinson, Duncanston, Insch.
This lamb, which stood reserve champion at the Royal Highland Show in June, is by Xana Black Magic and out of a Beili Bleus dam.
He sold to Staffordshire breeder Andrew Froggatt for his Sams flock.
Other leading prices included 1,600gn for a February-born ram lamb, by a Beili Blues sire, from William Linton’s Falklands flock at Thurstane Cottage, Abington, Biggar.
He sold in a two-way split to the Irvine family at Braehead, Drummuir, Keith, and Neil and Stuart Barclay at South Road, Insch.
North-east breeder Stasa Moyse, who runs the Saltire flock at Woolhillock, Skene, sold to a top of 1,400gn with shearling ram Saltire Blue Buddy.
By Hackney Your Joking, and out of an imported Hackney dam, he sold to Messrs Troup, Inverurie.
Meanwhile, females sold to a top of 3,500gn for January-born ewe lamb Hackney Crusader, which is an ET daughter of Joe’s Alvin, out of Hackney Yikes.
Put forward by Shropshire breeders Christine Williams and Paul Tippetts, she sold to Messrs Colville, Crawfordsburn, Northern Ireland.
Other leading female prices included 1,400gn for a gimmer by Hackney Yankee from Andrew Froggatt’s Sams flock.
She sold to Deborah Atkinson. The sale averages were: aged ram, one, £1,050; shearling rams, 28, £816.38; ram lambs, 37, £919.03; aged ewes, two, £892.50; shearling gimmers, 52, £744.89; and ewe lambs, 23, £682.73.