Normal Weekly Sale of Prime Sheep.
Inc Breeding Hill Bred Ewes and Second Sale of Rams.
Entries close Tues 22 Sept
-Prime lamb/cast ewes report 29/09/26-
A good day here at UAM with 1500 prime lambs forward and 250 cast ewes, a massive show of lambs forward today.
Auction was wall to wall with sheep and even outside pens full!🔥🔥
🔸A heavy show of sheep foward with an overall average of £3.29ppk, SQQ £3.36ppk & an overall price of £156.🔸
I F Sweeting sells 43kg to £169 (3.85ppk),
Messers Cottam Ltd 47 kg to £180 (£3.83ppk),I Wilson 42kg £161 (380ppk).
Heavy lambs remaining good to sell.
D & A Purdham topping the sale at £205,
T H Garnett £204/200,
J Craghill to £195,
I F Sweeting £195,
J Craghill £194,
T H Garnett £194,
J Shephard & Son £193.
📈Prime Lamb – Leading Averages📈
▫️F Sweeting 2 @ £176.50
▫️D & A Purdham 17 @ £175
▫️J Craghill 41 @ £168
▫️M Forrester 11 @ £165
▫️J Shephard & son 65 @ £165
▫️J & E Kirkbride 3 @ £164
Cast sheep-
Cast sheep topping at £238 off S Wood for Texel and again at £218, P & A Fell selling Suffolks to £200, P Bradley Texels to £194,SP&LM Hobson Texels to £197, P & A Fell BFL to £182,mule ewes hit £189 off RF&CE Hodgson, TH Garnett mules to £169, G Fearon £160.
P & A Fell swalesdale ewes to £138.
D Thompson selling 3 herdwick tups to £121.
🔸Ewes being very good to sell some ewes be up £10-15 on the week, ewes to an average of £128.🔸
📈Cast Ewes – Leading averages📈
🔹D E Wood 2 @ £199.50
🔹S P & L M Hobson 6 @ £174
🔹R F & C E Hodgson 6 @ £170
🔹S Wood 2 @ £170
-Store lamb report 29/9/26-
A good show of store lambs forward with 700 lambs selling to an average of £122.
Some nice running lambs forward and stronger lambs still very good to sell.
🔸J A Jones selling Texel lambs to £141
🔸G McCartney Charolais selling to £139
🔸D Leighton Texels to £138
🔸G Fearon selling mules to £117
🔸Cheviot lambs selling to £117 off Silurian farms.
Long term lambs are good to sell with farmers now having grass foward.
📈Leading averages📈
🔹S Dugdale 130 @ £131.45
🔹M/S Rothery 70 @ £131.29
🔹S Wood 35 @ £129.66
🔹D Leighton 23 @ £125.83
🔹G McCartney 41 @ £123.70
More could have easily been sold today.
A small offering of breeding sheep today,
NC Cheviots ewes selling to £230/20 off Mrs H Clough, a great breeding ram to £500 off
J & E Kirkbride with a Suffolk shearling.