Store lambs and feeding sheep sell well in the ring

STIRLING, United Auctions sold 5,176 store lambs and feeding sheep at their opening sale on July 27.

Averages: Suffolk cross, £75.82 (+£11.59 on the year); Texel cross, £73.08 (+£11.92); Beltex cross, £71.39 (+£9.80); Cheviot, £60 (+£2.26); Mule, £73.86 (+£16.36); Blackface, £44.94 (+£4.94); Cheviot/mule, £71.17.

Leading prices: Store lambs: Clachanach, Iona (Suf) £84; Nether Moneynut (Suf) £81; Tiraghoil, Mull (Suf) £80.50; Auchentibber (Tex) £84; Donellen (Tex) £83.50; Nether Moneynut (Tex) £81; Low Tirfergus (Btex) £85 & £78; Muirpark (Btex) £83 & £75.50; Triaghoil (Chev) £60; Low Tirfergus & Little Moss (Mule) £77; Gribloch (Mule) £75.50; Jaw (Mule) £73.50; Fairview Hill (Chev/mule) £73.50; Strewiebank (BF) £45.

STIRLING, Caledonian Marts Ltd sold 329 store cattle on July 27. Bullocks averaged 214p selling to 264p per kg for a pen of Simmentals from Keir Farms, Aberdeen, and to £1,360 for a pen of Limousin from A Mckenzie, Ardgate, Gartocharn.

Heifers averaged 209p selling to 230p per kg for a pen of Simmentals from W Mclean, Kilblaan, Campbeltown, and to £1,160 for a Shorthorn from A & H Kirkpatrick, Strathmore, Beith.

Black and whites sold to 179p per kg from AHS Drummond, Glenside, Leswalt and to £780 from the same home.

Other leading prices per head:

Bullocks: £1,260 Ardgate & Glenside (Stranraer); £1,230 Lochend; £1,210 Drumbowie; £1,200 Drumbowie (twice) & Ardgate; £1,150 Kilblaan & Offers; £1,140 Kilblaan; £1,120 Offers.

Heifers: £1,130 Eden; £1,100 & £1,080 Kilblaan; £1,070 & £1,050 Kilblaan; £1,040 Kilblaan; £1,030 Eden.