Cottage Blue ewe hogg tops J36
TOPPING THE sale at £4200 was Jimmy Bell’s Cottage Bluefaced Leicester ewe hogg
averages:
Bluefaced Leicesters – Ewe hoggs, £1228; in-lamb gimmers, £828; in-lamb ewes, £937
LANARKSHIRE flockmaster, Jimmy Bell, made his presence felt at North West Auctions’ multi-breed Diamond Delights of female sheep selling the top priced lot at 4200gns.
Sale leader was a ewe hogg from the Cottage Bluefaced Leicester flock from Auchengray, that stood champion at the presale show judged by Lewis and Ridley Browell, Quarry House.
Bred from a home-bred ewe by the Smearsett G1 and sired by Midlock P8, she found a new home with James Taylor of the Lunesdale flock, Bradleyfield, Kendal.
On the debit side, Mr Bell gave 2500gns for West Biggin R025, a ewe hogg from WM Reed and Sons, Bishop Auckland. A daughter of Spurrigg P2, she is bred from a Highberries H2 sired-dam.
Ewe hoggs proved popular throughout with West Calder breeder, Finlay Robertson, The Beeches, forking out 3000gns for such an entry from W and A Booth’s Smearsett flock from Feizor, Lancs. She is out of a Barnshangan dam bred by Andrew McQuistin, and sired by the Smearsett D15.
The reserve champion, another ewe hogg this time from Martyn Archer’s Carry House flock, Hexham, matched that price when selling to WC Porter and Son, Riddings, Reeth, Richmond. Bred from a show gimmer, she is by Carry House Ronaldo.
Just behind, on 2700gns, Micklemoss R012, a ewe hogg by K020 Nunscleugh from Messrs Hodgson, High
CHAMPION ROUGH Fell made £3000 for TLB and J Knowles
Borrans, Windermere sold to TA and J Dixon, Yoad Pot, Selside. She goes back to the Smearsett G11 on the dam side
Centre records were achieved amongst the Rough Fells when an in-lamb gimmer made 3000gns. Selling at this price was the pre-sale champion selected by judge, Stephen Dickinson, High Woodend, Tebay, who went on to buy the gimmer from TLB and J Knowles, High Borrowbridge. She is a daughter of Brownber Dambuster and sold due to Birkhaw Emerald.
Another gimmer from MP and A Capstick, Newbiggin on Lune, by Catholes Action, and in lamb to Longgills Fashion, made 1000gns when knocked down to E Clark, 15 Glebe Close, Appleby-inWestmorland.
Top price amongst the Swaledales was 1200gns paid for the reserve champion, a ewe from Patrick and Kirsty
Sowerby, Kirkby Stephen. She is by a Bull and Cave ram and sold due with twins to an Acton ram, to J Capstick, Fellside, Bootle.
Tebay breeders, A and M Skidmore, took 1100gns for a gimmer by High Birkwith Endeavour, carrying a single lamb. The buyer was J Nattrass, Shield Hill, Top Garrigill, Alston.
The champion Swale, a gimmer from Robbie Hallam, High Birkwith, by a Ghyll House ram, in lamb with a single to a Hundith tup, made 1000gns to Lee Metcalfe, Rig end Cottage, Buttersett, Hawes.
Other individual sheep sold to £1600 for a Dutch Spotted gimmer carrying twins from D Dixon, Grayrigg, who sold others with singles for £1200. Both were purchased by J Hall, Ashbourne.
A smaller show of Cheviots saw gimmers sell to 550gns from Keith Stones and family, Richmond.
RESERVE CHAMPION Swaledale made £1200 for Patrick and Kirsty Sowerby, Kirkby Stephen