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Old Tip

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Cumbria
Went to Lockerbie Hill Cheviot sale today, ewes and shearlings we’re back a bit and I would say a quarter of the shearlings would go home, lambs sold well though on the current trade. Dealers seemed to have a top price of round the eighty pound mark for everything no matter what age. Sheep looked in very good order and I can only assume a lot hadn’t sucked lambs as they were as fit as I’ve ever seen them. Tips set off well but I bought the second one in and headed for home as I am now on a train heading for London and didn’t want to miss it.
Also brought fifteen shearlings home @50/head, felt sorry for the poor bloke when they dropped to forty to get a start and ended up with them. He sold the rest for £48, not bad sheep either and obviously had a hard summer. I will let you know if they are a bargain in the spring
 
Went to Lockerbie Hill Cheviot sale today, ewes and shearlings we’re back a bit and I would say a quarter of the shearlings would go home, lambs sold well though on the current trade. Dealers seemed to have a top price of round the eighty pound mark for everything no matter what age. Sheep looked in very good order and I can only assume a lot hadn’t sucked lambs as they were as fit as I’ve ever seen them. Tips set off well but I bought the second one in and headed for home as I am now on a train heading for London and didn’t want to miss it.
Also brought fifteen shearlings home @50/head, felt sorry for the poor bloke when they dropped to forty to get a start and ended up with them. He sold the rest for £48, not bad sheep either and obviously had a hard summer. I will let you know if they are a bargain in the spring

We bought 4 tups in the first 1/5 of the sale as we wanted to get away and thought they were very dear. Thought you needed £800 for the better end of commercial tups. Is that similar to other years?
 

Sheep135

Member
11,000 were due there?
Have you got anymore of a breakdown? From what I’ve heard the market report that comes out on the Thursday is a bit high compared to what stuff actually made the day before... the £head given on the culls is that top price or average for each breed?
Fat lambs were a bit sharper than last week, never saw store lambs but told they were dearer than last week. Cull ewes started slow but were a pretty good trade for the numbers around and ethnics not wanting them. Breeders were a mixed trade but there was a poor show of yearlings about that should of been killed in the spring which will have dragged the average down.
 

Al R

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Livestock Farmer
Location
West Wales
Really?? because when that is the case most liveweight prices drop like a stone yet cull cows/ fat cattle are selling like hot cakes on a snowy day in markets this week and if anything trade is up on last week for both classes of stock like for like.
Someone said it on here the last few days? Some people are still clearing out ready for winter as they’ve realised their still short of food?
 

Old Tip

Member
Location
Cumbria
I thought they were dearer than usual, guess it’s the old adage “cheap ewes, dear tips”
You would get two very good tips for the same as you paid for one at Dingwall but it’s a long treck and late in the season.
I picked out ten tips on the first fifty and bought the second one on the ring, glad o did because my next choice made two grand and the other nine hundred, I paid five for mine and loaded up and scarpered.
Loading at Lockerbie is a bit of a nightmare once the ramps get full of wagons
 

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