HAWES: TUESDAY, November 4. Weekly sale of livestock. Forward: 1,070 prime lambs, 174 cast ewes and rams and 4 cull cows. Prices – Prime Lambs: Continentals to 174 pence per kilogram (average 160.3p), or to £79.50 each; Suffolk 195 (161.8) 79; Mule 163 (149.7), 73; Horned 152 (127.4), 60.80. Breeding Ewes: Correct below Swaledale Ewes to £47. Cast Ewes: Horned to £74 (average £20.51); Polled 93 (60.48). Cast Rams: Horned 47 (41.50); Polled 95 (63).
ALSO: Thursday, October 30. Annual show and sale of registered and unregistered Swaledale rams. Show. Judge: A. Troughton and M. Acton. Sponsor: Abbotside Events. Forward: 44 aged rams to £500 (average £120), 112 Shearling rams 1,850 (127). Results - Aged Rams: 1 JR & AE Airey £440; 2 C & JC Stephenson 60; 3 JC Wade & Son 420. Shearlings: 1 and champion JR & CM Dalton £320; 2 and reserve champion JR & SE Airey 600; 3 MM & CL Whitehead 1,850.
ALSO: Tuesday October 28. Weekly sale of livestock. Forward: 9 calves, 958 prime and light lambs, 1,082 Swaledale, mule and continental gimmer lambs, 346 breeding sheep, 105 store lambs and 159 cast ewes and rams. Prices - Prime Lambs: Continental to 187 pence per kilogram (average 155.2p), or to £77.50 each; Suffolk 161 (140), 70.80; Cheviot 168 (161), 71; Mule 156 (144), 70; Horned 135 (123), 54.50. Breeding Ewes: Swaledale to £110 each (average 81.13) (correct - up £17.61, on 2013); £41.59 (correct below - up 20.75, 2013). Swaledale gimmer lambs 108 (66.41) (up 11.03, 2013). Mule gimmer lambs 90 (72.10) (3.41, 2013). Continental gimmer lambs 70 (64.46). Store Lambs: Continental 56.80 (49.56); Mules 57 (53.40). Cast Ewes: Polled 88 (69.37); Horned 48 (23.51). Cast Rams: Polled 98 (83); Horned 58 (44.92). Calves, Bulls: Limousin to £325 each (average £307); Friesian 95. Heifers: Limousin 305 (185).