Texel rams top the bidding at 700gns at Enniskillen sale
THE annual sale of breeding sheep took place at the Ulster Farmers’ Mart, Enniskillen on Monday past.
There was an entry of over 2000 head with hogget ewes selling from £130 to £235 for two pens of good Suffolk Cheviot crosses. Ewe lambs sold from £75 to £140 for Texels.
Older ewes made from £90 to £170 for two and three year olds.
Pedigree Texel shearling rams sold from 350gns to top sale price of 700gns.
First cross Charollais/texel shearlings made from 350gns to 550gns, and Belclare/ Charollais breeds sold up to to 540gns.
Pedigree Suffolks
Dutch Spotted shearlings made up to 360gns and ram lambs to 340gns.
Pedigree Suffolks sold to 440gns for a ram lamb with a range of other breeds selling from 150gns to 300gns.
The sale was well attended and resulted in almost a full clearance in both ewes and rams.