Carlisle Beltex sale
- Thread starter Agrivator
- Start date
- Location
- South lakes
49,000 back in luck money?Did anyone go to the sale on Thursday and Friday?
It was tremendous. I touched the 50,000 Gns Shearling, and still haven't washed my hand.
- Location
- North Yorkshire
Did they all survive the heat?
Chae1
Member
- Location
- Aberdeenshire
Was told they weren't a very good trade.
Spoke to someone that took a couple home unsold.
Spoke to someone that took a couple home unsold.
Best of luck to the breeders, alot of hard work, time, effort and patience goes into producing quality stock.
Some will come on here and have a go out of jealousy, but it's a hobby for most breeders, imho it's a far better way of spending money breeding quality stock, opposed to drinking and peeing it up the wall.
Some will come on here and have a go out of jealousy, but it's a hobby for most breeders, imho it's a far better way of spending money breeding quality stock, opposed to drinking and peeing it up the wall.
- Location
- Dumfries & Galloway
It's a 4-way share. I know 1 of the buyers
- Location
- South lakes
- Location
- Dumfries & Galloway
Often is! ‘‘Twas a joke really! But who gets the head and who gets the rear?
You have to be careful answering that... especially if you're Welsh
M-J-G
Member
So they cost double what another breed will and last half the time
- Location
- Aberdeenshire
The true value is when you take the top fifteen 'funny' prices out, reduce the number by fifteen and work out the average then. Last year it worked out at about 800 quid.
- Location
- Aberdeenshire
The top two Beltex alone added 170 quid to the average sale price.
M-J-G
Member
That's what realistic people do.
- Location
- Aberdeenshire
I became a little disillusioned with Carlisle despite selling there for a few years. From a spectators perspective with my bum on a seat I saw a lot of sheep down on their fetlocks or being driven one way round the ring to hide faults with gait or even manhandled to the center and held where there was no chance to observe gait at all. The society is so proud of being the biggest single breed sale that the inspection at the gate by society representatives seemed to err on the softer side of criticism.
But as crossing tups to produce high-value prime lambs, it's not vital that they are correct. All they need to do is tup as many ewes as possible and hopefully last a few seasons. Just like a Blueface Leicester.
They are not the sires of pure hill and upland breeds, so have completely different desirable traits.
- Location
- Aberdeenshire
I tend to agree but given the number of correct sheep unsold at 300 quid and the number of tups at a grand or more with glaring faults the sale seems skewed somehow. Do folk actually want to be seen to spend a certain amount on a tup and fear being seen to buy a cheaper one?
- Location
- Cheshire
A tup down on his fetlocks isn’t worth a crap. Nor are the ones that bounce on their hocks as they walk around. Might be alright in a Croft with 10 ewes. But not in a commercial setting of 1:40/1:50 in bunches of 150 ewes plus.
And the BFL isn’t for producing fat lambs… mule wethers are a byproduct
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I've never seen as many electric fans. One pen with about 10 tups had four fans, one in each corner,
But that was the pen belonging to the acting Chairman of the Limousin Society, who needs to keep cool anyway.
- Location
- South lakes
You would need a fan on yourself at 55,000 guinipigs, 
in this heat,
in this heat,