Blackface gimmer record at £18,000
A new record price of £18,000 for a Blackface gimmer was achieved at Lanark, on Tuesday, when Hugh and Alan Blackwood, Auldhouseburn, sold a single to Paul Coulson, High Staward.
The gimmer, which is going back to Auldhouseburn to be flushed, is by the 30,000gns McCurdy lamb bought at Ballymena in 2020, and bred from a ewe by a £160,000 Elmscleugh lamb.
The father and son duo sold a second gimmer, by the £70,000 Harestone lamb and out of a ewe by an £85,000 Elmscleugh, for £4000 to David Lennox, Northern Ireland.
The sale of 4932 Blackface draft ewes, gimmers and ewe lambs forward in two sections – for scrapie monitored and non-scrapie monitored, saw ewes sell to £1800 for a pen from Messrs Blackwood, Dalblair, selling to Messrs Conway, Ireland.
Increased demand from Ireland saw ewe and gimmer averages up on the year, at £145.60 for 1759 (+£10) and 841 at £208.29 (+£17.50), respectively. The second sale of ewe lambs saw 1492 head level at £57.65 (-£3.50).
Outwith the sale of Blackface females, some 963 head of all classes of lowland ewes and gimmers sold to £300 for Texel gimmers from Messrs Brown, Muirhouse, and £230 for Texel ewes from the same home.
The sale of 47 tups was topped £1100 for a Texel shearling from Messrs Glasgow, Felton.
LEADING prices
SMS BF – Draft ewes – £1800, £650 Dalblair; £1700, £900 (x2), £440 Crossflatt; £980, £950, £720 (x2), £450 (x2), £410, £400, £320 Midlock; £450, £350 Blackhouse; £380 Milnmark; £350 Blackcraig; £300.
Gimmers – £2600, £520, £420, £320, £250 Crossflatt; £850, £500, £380, £210 Nunnerie; £520, £340 Upper Wellwood; £460, £320 Madrissa; £320, £280, £230 Midlock; £300, Greenside; £280, £200, Waterhead; £200 (x2) Toxside.
High Staward stock – 4-crop, £90,£88; 3-crop, £100 (x2); 2-crop, £160, £152 (x2), £132; 1-crop, £280, £250, £162, £138. Gimmers – £260, £162, £148, £142.
Non-SMS BF – Draft ewes – £136, £128 Kypehill; £120 East Dykes; £120, £100 Haystoun; £105 The Stobbs; £102 Elvanfoot; £100 Sweetshawhead; £100 Kirkhope.
Gimmers – £150, £132, £102 Burncastle; £128 High Tarbeg; £124 Springhill;
£120 (x2) Aberuchill; £120 Lupus.
Ewe lambs – £94, £71 Cronberry; £78 Elvanfoot; £71, £70 (x2) Shawhead
Stock BF sheep Acreknowe/ Ashcraig – 4-crop, £92,£75; 3-crop, £102; 2-crop, £118, £80; 1-crop, £130, £110. Gimmers – £138, £110.
Stock BF sheep Cronberry – 4-crop, £135, £98, £88; 3-crop, 122; 2-crop,
£142; 1-crop, £132, £110.
Rams – Tex – £1100, £700 Felton; £1050, £700, £600 Wester Walston; £600 Craigievern; £600 (Tx2) Hartside. Belt – £620, £550, £520. Wester Walston.
Ram lambs – Suff – £400, £350 Pretts Mill. BTex – £400 (x2) Wester Walston.