By Neale McQuistin
Messrs Craig Wilson Ltd sold 213 breeding sheep at their first sale of the season at Ayr yesterday. The sale proved to be a great success with allocated seating provided to a large ringside of pre-registered buyers. Topping the sale was a pen of Suffolk cross ewes with twin Lambs at foot making £200. Mule gimmers with twin lambs sold to £186 and gimmers with a single lambs at foot sold to £165. Mule hoggs with single lambs sold to £144.
The firm also sold 814 prime and cast sheep at Newton Stewart yesterday. Sixteen new season prime lambs sold to average 218p/kg. Topping at £104 for a Texel and 227p for a pen of three Texels. A mixed offering of 629 hoggets sold to a top price of £95.50 and 212p for a pen of 41 Cheviots. Blackfaces sold to 210p for a pen of 88, while another pen of 50 heavyweights sold to £92. The overall average for the hoggets was 197p. Cast Sheep would be similar on the week selling to £113 for Texel crosses, while Mules sold to £79.
C&D Auction Marts Ltd sold 77 cattle at their sale of primestock at Dumfries yesterday. Prime cattle sold to 235p/kg for a Limousin cross heifer, while OTM's sold to £1095 and 142p for a Simmental. There were also 561 prime hoggets at the sale which sold to £105 for Texels. The 171 cast ewes were a similar trade on the week with a top price of £138 for Texels and Blackfaces were making up to £73.
Lawrie and Symington Ltd sold 601 cattle at their weekly store sale at Lanark on Tuesday.
Bullocks were topped at £1225 was a Limousin cross or at 267p/kg for a shorthorn cross to average 221p overall.
Heifers peaked at £1230 for a Limousin cross or at 261pfor a Limousin cross x to level at 214p. Dairy bullocks averaged 154p.
Messrs Craig Wilson Ltd sold 117 prime and cast cattle at their sale at Ayr on Tuesday. Eleven prime heifers sold to a top of £1345 or 230p/kg for the same Limousin to average £1207 or 214p overall. Five prime bullocks peaked at £1363 or 235p for a Limousin cross to average £1190 or 205p. Four prime Friesian bullocks peaked at £1138 and 169p to average £1105 or 164p.
In the rough ring 29 cast beef cows sold to £1360 for a Charolais or 172p for an Aberdeen Angus to average 129p overall, while 42 cast dairy cows sold to £890 and 111p for two different Friesians to average 96p overall. Six cast bulls were topped at £1380 for an Aberdeen Angus or 146p for a Hereford to average 115p.
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