Livestock under the hammer at Forfar and Stirling

Lawrie and Symington,

Forfar, had forward 29 prime cattle and cast cows and 1,063 prime sheep. PRIME CATTLE Bullocks (11) sold to 242p per kg for a 608kg Limousin from Craignathro and purchased by Fleming Butchers, Arbroath, and to £1,567 per head for a 664kg Limousin from Nethermyres and purchased by J Chapman (Butchers) Ltd, Wishaw to average 232p per kg. Heifers (17) sold to 254p per kg for a 553kg Limousin from Nethermyres and purchased by JB Penman Butchers, Crail, and to £1,459 per head for 603kg Limousin also from Nethermyres and purchased by Fleming Butchers, Arbroath to average 228p per kg. Leading prices per kilo: Bullocks – Lim 239p Nethermyres, 239p and 238p South Ballo, 237p (twice) 236p Nethermyres, 230p and 228p Woodhead of Mailer, 218p Millbank (Udny). Heifers – Lim 248p West Bog, 244p South Ballo, 242p Nethermyres, 238p Craignathro, 237p Nethermyres, 235p Millbank (Udny); BA 217p Millbank (Udny); Sim. 222p Pityot; Char. 218p Pityot; Saler X 216p Pityot. Leading prices per head: Bullocks – Lim £1,564, £1,538 and £1,536 Nethermyres, £1,478 Millbank (Udny), £1,471 Craignathro, £1,453 Millbank (Udny). Heifers – Lim £1,418, £1,414 West Bog, £1,404 and £1,360 Nethermyres, £1,358 Craignathro, £1,357 Pityot, £1,334 Millbank (Udny); BA £1,345 Millbank (Udny); Sim £1,369 Whitehall; Char £1,260 Pityot. Cows (1) Sim £1,110 (128p) Whitehall. PRIME SHEEP A mixed show of 768 Lambs were forward with leaner, plainer types harder to cash. Lambs sold to 200p for a pen of 46kg Texels from the Firm of J and D Finlayson, Largie, and to £92 for the same lot to average 166p (back 1.5p on the week). Leading prices per kilo: Beltex 190.3p Clochie, 189.6p Southtown of Melgund; Texel 187.1p Hallhill (Collessie), 182p Templeton and Southtown of Melgund; Suffolk 175p Templeton, 173.2p Southtown of Melgund. Leading prices per head: Texel £91 Templeton and Southtown of Melgund, £88 Loch of Liff; Beltex £91 Southtown of Melgund, £88.50 Clochie; Suffolk£87.50Templeton,£85LochofLiff;Cheviot£85.50 Hallhill (Collessie). A stronger show of 295 cast ewes were forward with trade slighty up on the week. Top price of the day went to Messrs D Stewart and Son, Mains of Dalrulzion, for a pen of Texel Ewes reaching £90. Other leading prices: Beltex £89 Balbrydie; Suffolk £84 Redford; Texel £80 Fernbrae; Cross £70.50 Redford; Cont. £66 Redford and Tomlea; BF £56 Viola Cottage.

Caledonian Marts Ltd,

Stirling, sold 2,525 breeding sheep at their annual sale of regular cast blackface ewes on Wednesday. Records were smashed for this sale, when I Hunter, Dalchirla, presented 10 Blackface Gimmers which were purchased by Robert Cockburn, Errol and A Branagan, County Down at a record price of £300. With a full ringside of buyers forward, all classes of breeding stock were well up on the year. Blackface ewes (1,496) ave £65.15 (+£11.87 on the year), selling to a top of £90 from Greentop Lands and Estates, Glennyhill. Blackface Gimmers (330) ave £93.14 (+£17.13 on the year), selling to a top of £300 from I Hunter, Dalchirla. Cross Ewes (453) ave £71.84 (+£10.64 on the year), selling to a top of £105 for Mule Ewes (1 crop) from J and J Graham, Mains of Burnbank. Cross Gimmers (232 ) ave £119.60 (+£28.45 on the year) selling to a top of £140 (twice) for Mules form J Cullens, Dollarbank and Texels from R Downie, Newton Farm. Swaledale shearlings (20) ave £222.14 (+£84.25 on the years) selling to a top of £420 from RN and IM Beaty, Stennerskeugh. Other leading prices: Ewes – BF £82 and £80 Glennyhill, £78 Langfaulds, £72 and £70 Glenturret Est, £70 Auchnafree, £66 Cromlix, £66 Little Port. Chev – £70 and £64 Auchnafree. Texel – £80 and £78 Atholl Estates, £70 Easter Dullatur. Mule – £98 and £96 Dollarbank, £69 Powguild. Shet – £43 Tingwall. Gimmers BF – £180 and £130 Dalchirla, £102 Easter Greenrigg, £100 Dukes. Chev – £120 Easter Greenrigg. Hill Chev – £72 Orchilmore. Lleyn – £120 Dalmemy. Zwar – £100 Whiterigg. Mule – £134 Inchie, £128 Newton. Tups – £400, £320 and £300 Stennerkeugh, £360, £200 (twice) Rakefoot.