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Monday 17 March 2008

EASTER SHOW & SALE OF SPRING LAMBS  

John Whalley, was triumphant for the third year running at Gisburn auction marts Easter show and sale of spring lambs on Monday 17 March.

Spirited bidding from numerous wholesale and private butchers produced the top bid of the day, at £104 for the champion lamb from the Darwen based sheep and dairy farmer.  The outstanding lamb, a 12-week-old Texel cross was picked from an entry of 36 show lambs.  Weighing 43kgs the prize winning lamb sold to the pre-sale judge, Mr Richard Hobday of White Peak Farm Butchery, Tissington, Ashbourne, Derbyshire. 

Suffolk breeder, Geoff Richmond, Garstang, Preston, was in the money with his pair of Suffolk lambs, which won the red rosette in the pairs class.  Sired by a Conveth ram, weighing 43kgs, they sold for £99, again to White Peak Farm Butchery. The lambs purchased by White Peak Farm Butchery, will be on sale in time for the Easter trade.

Charollais lambs peaked at £95 for a 40kg lamb from Robert Towers, Farleton, Lancaster. The buyer was Bowland Foods, Preston, Lancs.

Averages:  New Season Lambs: 33-39kgs 207p; 40-45kgs 213p

EASTER SHOW & SALE OF SPRING LAMBS RESULTS

Judge Richard Hobday

CHAMPION  J Whalley & Sons, 43kg £104 to White Peak Farm Butchery

BEST SINGLE CONTINENTAL LAMB

1st  J Whalley & Sons, 43kg £104 to White Peak Farm Butchery

2nd  D & CA Calvert , 55kgs, £75 to J & E Medcalf  Ltd

3rd  J Whalley & Sons, 38kgs,  £91 to D J Wrigley

BEST SINGLE NATIVE LAMB

1st   T A Blair, 39kgs, £89 to J & E Medcalf Ltd

2nd  GI Richmond, 42kgs, £90 to J & E Medcalf Ltd.

BEST PAIR OF LAMBS

1st   GI Richmond, 43kgs, £99 to White Peak Farm Butchery

2nd  J Whalley & Sons, 35kgs, £89 to White Peak Farm Butchery

3rd   J Whalley & Sons, 33kgs, £74 to White Peak Farm Butchery

BEST 5 PRIME HOGGS

1st  R & E Dean, 43kgs, £74 to S Ashworth Ltd

2nd LN & R Nutter, 41kgs, £62 to Bowland Foods Ltd

3rd  R & E Dean, 39kgs, £67 to S Ashworth Ltd

John Whalley with his champion lamb which sold  £104 to
Mr Richard Hobday of
White Peak Farm Butchery, Tissington, Ashbourne, Derbyshire

Geoff Richmond (left) with his pair of first prize lambs which sold  £99  to  Mr Richard Hobday (right) of White Peak Farm Butchery, Tissington, Ashbourne, Derbyshire

 

Thursday 28 February 2008

SWALEDALE PRIME HOGG SHOW AND SALE

Paul Baines, Trawden, beat off strong competition to win the first prize rosette with his pen of ten Swaledale prime hoggs, at the fourth annual show and sale of Swaledale prime hoggs at Gisburn auction marts last Thursday.  (28 Feb).Weighing 42kilos they sold for £49.50 or 118p a kilo.

Taking home the second prize rosette was Geoff & Margaret Walker, Dunsop Bridge, Clitheroe.  This time with a pen of 47 kilos hoggs which sold for £52.20 or 111p per kilo. 

The firm of Walker & Alpe, Chipping, Preston picked up the third prize rosette, with their hoggs, weighing 45 kilos; they sold for £49.20 or 109p/kg. 

Purchaser of all the prize-winning hoggs was to livestock agent, Andrew Atkinson, Kettlesing, Harrogate.

Swaledale prime hoggs averages: 33-39kgs 110p/kg; 40-45kgs 110p/kg; 46-52kgs 109p/kg

Judge Lister Brown

Best 10 Swaledale Hoggs

1st   P Baines, 42kgs, £49.50 to A Atkinson Livestock Ltd

2nd   GJ & ME Walker & Sons, 47kgs, £52.20 to A Atkinson Ltd

3rd   Walker & Alpe, 45kgs, £49.20 to A Atkinson Ltd

Best 5 Gritstone Hoggs

1st    J Lord, 47kgs, £53 to Meadow Top Livestock

2nd    R Jackson & Sons, 36kgs £41 to A Atkinson Livestock Ltd

Best 5 Lonk Hoggs

1st    P Robinson, 42kgs, £48.20 to Roy Schofield

2nd    R Jackson, 37kgs £41.20 to Alan Moorhouse

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Swale 3 – label as 1st Prize winners

Swale 6 – label as 2nd  Prize winners

Swale 5 – label as 3rd  Prize winners

1st Prize Winners
2nd Prize Winners
3rd Prize Winners

 

Thursday 31 January 2008

X FACTOR COMPETITION - BEST PEN OF FIVE PRIME HOGGS.

WINNING THE X FACTOR PRIME LAMB COMPETITION AT GSBURN AUCTION MARTS LAST THURSDAY (31 JAN) WAS A PEN OF FIVE BELTEX HOGGS FROM SHEEP FARMER, ROBERT LAMBERT, WIGGLESWORTH, SKIPTON, NORTH YORKSHIRE.

THE FIRST PRIZE WINNING HOGGS, SIRED BY THE BELTEX RAM, BORDERESK JUST THE JOB OUT OF HOMEBRED BELTEX EWES FROM MR LAMBERT, WEIGHED 41KGS AND SOLD FOR £65, OR 159P/KG TO KNAVESMIRE BUTCHERS, YORK.    THE LAMB STEAKS AND CHOPS FROM THE WINNING ANIMALS WILL BE ON SALE AT KNAVESMIRE BUTCHERS, YORK FROM NEXT WEEK, READY FOR VALENTINES DAY.

PICKING UP THE SECOND AND THIRD PRIZE ROSETTES, WAS CLITHEROE’S RENOWNED, BELTEX BREEDER, BRIAN BREAKS.  HIS SECOND AND THIRD PRIZE PENS, WEIGHED 45KGS AND 42KGS, SOLD FOR £72 OR 160P/KG AND £64 OR 153P/KG AGAIN TO KNAVESMIRE BUTCHERS.

MR STEPHEN SWALES, MELBOURNE, YORK, PRE SALE JUDGE AND BUYER FOR KNAVESMIRE BUTCHERS SAID, “THE QUALITY OF PRIME HOGGS ON SHOW WAS OUTSTANDING - CERTAINLY THE BEST QUALITY HOGGS TO BE TO BE FOUND ANYWHERE IN THE COUNTRY.”

AVERAGES: HOGGS, 33-39KGS 107P/KG, 40-45KGS 118P/KG, 46-52KGS 113P/KG. OVERALL 112P/KG

AUCTIONEERS: RICHARD TURNER & SON

 

Robert Lambert

with

Paul Drake of Massey Feeds,

Walton le Dale, Preston

the Show Sponsors,

with the prize winning hoggs,

weighing 41kgs which sold for £65 or 159p/kg to

Knavesmire Butchers, York.

 

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