Dumfries Store and Breeding Sheep Report
C&D Auctions held their Annual Ram Fair in Dumfries on Friday 4th October 2024.
A good ringside of buyers was in attendance with best quality rams in demand.
Texel shearling rams topped at £1150 from R Harris, Auchengool with others to £1100, £1050 Auchengool, £1100 Newmains, £1000 x2 Boghouse.
Texel ram lambs to £500 Messrs J & C Hastings, Kopje
Suffolk shearlings £650 Messrs L R Howatson, Corriemains
Suffolk ram lambs to £600 Messrs J & M Buchanan, Prettsmill
Lleyn ram lambs to £600 H Goldie, South Bowerhouses
Blue Faced Leicester rams met a competitive trade selling to £750 from AM Brown, Drumhumphry.
Blue Faced Leicester ram lambs to £400 x2 from S Bryson, Kilfaddoch.
A few pens of ewe lambs were easily sold selling to £135, £132 from T & T Anderson & Son, Dornal.
750 Store lambs easily sold to a ringside of active buyers.
Suffolks - £107 Bettyknowes, £102 Sandilands
Texel - £104 Bettyknowes, £103 Dressertland
Cross - £100 Bettyknowes
Cheviot - £83 Bettyknowes
Blackface - £58 Bridgemark
- 5 Judge David Morgan
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- 3 Reserve Champion Pen from D Henderson Sweetshawhead
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- 2 Champion Presentation
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- 4 Auctioneer Harry Begg
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- 1 Champion Pen from T&T Anderson and Son Dornal