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Ulverston Auction Mart

Livestock Sales in the mart and on-farm sales of all classes of commercial and pedigree stock.

Tuesday 6th October 2026

Normal Weekly Sale of Prime Sheep.

SALE OF STORE & BREEDING SHEEP.

Entries until time of sale

SALE OF PRIME CATTLE AND CAST COWS.

Prime sheep & cast ewes report 06/10/26

Another good week trading here at UAM.

With 750 prime lambs forward and 200 cast ewes. 

🔻Lambs to £206 for a BFL off S Thomason,T H Garnett Suffolk’s to £183,J & E Hodgson £183 x 2 for beltex lambs , J Woodburn & partners texels £182.🔻

💥Topping to pence per kilo was J & E Hodgson 4.25ppk,407ppk,406ppk with a very good run of quality lambs.💥

👉🏻Mules to 59kg 303ppk £178 off P & A Fell,herdwick making an appearance 38kg 3.50ppk £133 off N A&J Temple.

Today’s we have seen good feed sheep sharper on the week with feed lambs proving best to sell. 

Overall average of £3.28ppk SQQ-£3.37ppk 

Overall price £151. 

Leading averages with 3 or more

23 @ £164 J Woodburn & partners 

18 @ £162 J & E Hodgson 

8 @ £161 Y & P Ashburner 

41 @ £160 J Craghill

200 cast ewes forward today. Ewes were a flyer for the show of sheep foward. 

J & S Tyson texels to £224 next up £205 off B Waddington,J Sharp 202 for texels,Mules to £196 off T H Garnett ,Messrs Wood mules to £188,BFL to £186 off S Thomason.Cheviots to £122 off J & E Hodgson  masham to £175 G & L J Caine,Herdwicks to £98 off T H Garnett.

Leading averages with 3 or more

7 @ £186 J & S Tyson 

3 @ £184 J Sharp

3 @ £174 Messrs Wood

7 @ £179 T Edmondson 

Ewes average £139.

Prime cattle and OTM report 06/10/26

A good show of a 100 OTM and prime cattle.

Cattle are up on the last sale with a packed ring of buyers keen for cattle.

🔸Clean cattle to 438ppk for Messrs Cottam Wardwarrow with a blue heifer coming to £2670 they also had more heifers to  4.28ppk twice🔸

🔥M Woods selling big steers to £2985,£2901,£2883,£2888 his steers were 700 to 820kg. More cattle could have been sold with ease.🔥

Top pence per kilo for steers off M Cook 4.05ppk.

Top pence per kilo heifer off Messrs Cottam 4.38ppk.

Steers average £3.67ppk.

Steers whole sale average of £2603

Heifers average £363ppk. 

Heifers whole sale average of £2391

Prime bulls 

S M & P R Park selling Holstein bulls to £2347 (£3.27) Aberdeen Angus bulls to £2009 from the same good farming.

Moving onto OTM cattle.

Cows average £2.19ppk.

Taking the show today was a British blue bull off A R Edmondon coming to the grand total of £3480. M C Thornton selling Limousin cows to £2131, beef shorthorn cows to £2130 of Piel view,T Dixon Cockermouth  selling Ayrshire cows to £1920, A & B Fell selling Fleckvieh cows to £1817, Ellwoods selling Holstein cows to £1780 ,Donaldson Dairy’s Cockermouth selling Holstein cows to £1745. 

More and more cows needed every two weeks with buyers as far from Scotland ,Cheshire,Halifax,Staffordshire.

Please contact one of our sale team for future selling.


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