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Charollais Rams off to a flying start at Worcester
Despite the problems with
BTV zones, the Charollais breed enjoyed a flying start to the ram
selling season at
Two flocks led the way with outstanding pens of lambs.
Top price of the day went to Tim Prichard’s Castellau flock
from Glamorganshire. His
lamb Castellau Ieuan sold for 5,000 gns to new breeder John Davies
from Lane End Farm near Stoke on
The pre-sale show champion came from the exceptional entry from
Peter Vaughan from Herefordshire.
Kings Land Invincible was sired by Southam Exotic out of a
Southam ewe and was knocked down for 3,700 gns to Jonathan and
The fully vaccinated and tested, Dalby flock of Charles Sercombe
from Leicestershire had a successful sale, topped by their high
index lamb, Dalby Inspired.
This lamb was knocked down to Richard and Jane Easom for
their Grimston flock at 2,300 gns and was sired by last year’s Royal
Show winner, Rockvilla Golden Promise.
Charles had two further lambs selling for four figures; Dalby
Iggle Piggle made 1,350 gns to Mrs Diane Rusbridge from
Carmarthenshire and D & W Livestock paid 1,000 gns for Dalby
Illustrious to go back to Woodhall Spa in
Never far from the top prices is Charles Marwood from Whenby near
First time vendor Mr David Curran from Brecon in Powys, made an impact with the first ram lamb into the ring. His son of Wraycastle Dai Hard sold for 1,500 gns. Purchaser of Wernfawr Iceman were Clive and Robert Hopper from Devon.
Topping the shearling trade, which levelled at £720 was the
Castellau flock. Taking
Castellau Hob Nob at 3,400 gns was a new breeder, Mr Christopher
Hawes from Bicester in Oxon.
Mr Hawes has recently purchased an entire Charollais flock
and also made further purchases to expand the new flock to over 100
ewes. He was also
purchaser of the highest indexed sheep on offer on the day; Neil
Oughton’s ram lamb, Lowerye Is A Good’un achieved the highest breed
index for 2008 at 487 and was sired by sire reference ram, Dalby
Galactico. Mr Hawes
purchased a 50% share in the tup for 1,500 gns, with the Lowerye
flock retaining the other half.
Top show ram, Elmwick Harvest Gold from Mrs Jennifer Curtis, Evesham
in Worcestershire made 1,550 gns to yet another newer Charollais
breeder, Mr Graham Allenby from
Charollais Chief Executive, Mr
Averages :
44 ram lambs averaged £1177.55
(£812.20 2007)
30 shearling rams averaged £719.95
(£766.50 2007)
Auctioneer:
Clive Roads, McCartneys
CHAROLLAIS SHEEP BREAK ALL RECORDS AT WELSHPOOL MARKET
A
record breaking bid of 10,500 gns was made at Part 2 of the
Charollais Sheep Society’s Premier
This record price for both the breed and the market was paid for the
pre-sale champion, Banwy Immense from local breeder, Arwel Owen,
Foel near Welshpool. The
lamb was the result of an embryo transfer programme and was sired by
Foulrice Eurostar out of a Penhros ewe.
Making the last bid was Mr John Geldard from Low Foulshaw
Farm, Levens in
Next in line at 4,000 gns was the reserve champion from
Another local flock had a highly successful day; Mr Bryan Evans from
Trefeglwys in Powys saw his top lamb, Penrhos Ibanez sell for 3,500
gns to Welsh breeders, Mr Tim Prichard and Mr Arwyn Thomas.
This and his next best lamb were both sired by Foulrice
Eurostar. Going to 2,500
gns for Penrhos Impecable were
Other vendors with a long journey were Carole and William Ingram
from Aberdeenshire.
Their good looking shearling ram Logie Durno Hercules was the winner
in his section and attracted a joint 3,000 gns bid from Mr Adrian
Davies and Mr David Curran both from south
Mr Adrian Davies was in the money himself with two lambs making
2,000 gns apiece. His
class winner, Glyn Coch Idol, again sired by Foulrice Eurostar was
the choice of Society Chairman, Mr Herbert Kennedy from
Clearance rates were excellent and a number of commercial buyers
took the opportunity to pick up tremendous stock early in the
season. Average price
for the 54 ram lambs sold was £1092.43 and shearlings levelled at
£1204.00. 23 animals
made 1,000 gns or above, which added to the result at Part 1 in
Auctioneer : Glandon
Lewis, Welshpool Livestock Sales
Charollais Sheep Trade up at
Lanark
The strong trade for
Charollais rams continued at the Scottish Premier sale held at
Lanark.
Numbers
forward were reduced by the BTV zoning, but the
average price for ram lambs saw a rise of just under £340 to finish
the day at £868.
A top of 3,000 gns for Welsh breeder Arwel Owen
continued the Banwy flock’s flying trade.
Lanark’s topper was a full ET brother to their record
breaking lamb, which sold last week at Welshpool.
Sired by Foulrice Eurostar out of a Penrhos ewe, the hammer
went down to the under bidders from last week, William and Carole
Ingram from Aberdeenshire.
The lamb had been placed reserve champion in the pre-sale
show.
Another from the Banwy pen
sold for 2,100 gns to G & J Archibald, Craigens Farm,
The champion in the pre-sale
show was from Bryan Evan’s Penrhos flock in Powys.
They were first of the lambs into the ring but achieved 1,900
gns to Jonathan Wales from
The Parkgate flock of Herbie and Alan Kennedy gave
the sale a flurry at the end, making 2,800 gns for their first prize
winner. Sired by their
home-bred tup Parkgate Hot Property this tup went to the
vice-chairman of the North of Scotland region, Neil Blackburn from
Clynemilton in Sutherland.
The Auchenlay flock of Robert and Maimie Paterson
from Perthshire topped their trade at 1,300 gns for a son of Arjane
Glyndwr out of a show winning ewe.
Messrs Lawrie, from Pettinain, near Lanark secured this one
for their Grangehall Flock.
Foulrice breeding was
in the pedigree of Maryholm Indispensable which sold for James
Clanachan from
Averages :
24 ram lambs averaged £867.56
Auctioneer :
William McCulloch, Lawrie and Symington
Trend Continues at Dungannon as averages soar
The increasing popularity of the Charollais Breed was reinforced at their Premier Sale in Northern Ireland with averages up almost 50%. There was plenty of interest from South of the Border with breeders having to dig deep to secure their purchases.
Leading the way was the Carnew Flock of Jonathan Aiken who not only won the Championship in the presale show, but went on to receive the top price of 2800gns for a Loaningfoot Highlander son who was placed second in the January class by Welsh Judge ,Bryan Evans. Purchasing this stylish Ram for their Doughery Flock were Robert and Stuart Cromie .
The Champion Ram who
stood first in the December born Ram Lamb class was another son of
Loaningfoot Highlander and sold for 1900gns to R Hall &Son,
Reserve Overall Champion went to a daughter of Parkgate Glenmorangie, a big stylish ewe lamb from the Lornbrook Flock of Diane Christie. Reserve Champion Male also went to the Lornbrook Flock, this big ended ram which stood second to the Champion in the December class achieved a top pen price of 1,500 gns for a Parkgate Glenmorangie son. Omagh breeder Noel Barton purchasing this well bred ram for his flock.
Derek Bell from Omagh was the buyer for the fifth prize winner in the January class paying out 1,000 gns to McConnell Brothers for a great carcass ram sired by Ballynoe House Felix.
Ian Goudy’s third placed ram in the December Class caught the eye of a Dungannon purchaser who had to pay 900 gns for this well muscled sheep.
The Riverdale Flock of Norman McMordie achieved a price of 800 gns for a high performance ram selling to McKinney Brothers from Maghera.
Top place in the Senior and Shearling Ram
Class went to County Antrim breeder
Jonathan O’Loan; this big bodied ram
selling to James Murphy from
Topping the market in the older rams was a big well muscled shearling ram, sired by Beechlodge Formidable and shown by Sidney Corbett. County Wexford Breeder James McDonald had to go to 1,100 gns to secure his purchase.
Ballymoney breeder Matt Taggart added to his flock purchasing a very impressive stock ram, Glyn Coch Google, from the pen of George Booth for 580 gns.
Drew Cowan, Charollais Sheep Club Chairman, was well pleased with the sale and thanked the sponsors for their continued support ,The Northern Bank, J Thompson & Sons, Animal Feeds and Dungannon Farmers Market.
SHOW RESULTS
Senior & Shearling Ram: 1st
Jonathan O’Loan,2nd Elizabeth Gould, 3rd Ian
Goudy
December Ram: 1st
Jonathan Aiken, 2nd Diane Christie, 3rd Ian
Goudy
January Ram: 1st Jim Bell, 2nd Jonathan
Aiken,3rd Jonathan Aiken
Untrimmed Ram: 1st George Booth, 2nd David
Gordon
Group of Three: 1st David
& Liz Mawhinney, 2nd Jonathan Aiken, 3rd
Craig Brothers
Shearling Ewe: 1st George Booth, 2nd George
Booth
Ewe Lamb: 1st Diane Christie, 2nd Diane
Christie, 3rd Craig Brothers
Top Prices:
Jonathan Aiken; 2800gns,
1900gns 1400gns,1100gns,1000gns.
Diane Christie 1500gns,800gns,700gns,650gns.
Sidney Corbet 1100gns.
McConnell Brothers 1000gns,
Ian Goudy,900gns.
Norman McMordie 800gns.
Jonathan O’Loan 720gns.
David & Liz Mawhinney 600gns
Averages : Shearling Rams 14 sold to average
£476.62
Ram Lambs, 56 sold to average £548.81
Builth Sale Strong for Shearlings
Trade for Charollais was exceptionally strong at the Builth NSA Main sale, particularly for well-grown and well-fleshed shearling rams. They levelled at £411 for 290 sold, which represented an 81% clearance. Lambs were a little more difficult to trade; buyers were a bit short on the ground which probably had much to do with the split sale. Lambs finished with a good average of £326.83 for 198 sold, a 66% clearance.
Charollais however took the two top prices on the day with 2,100 gns paid twice. Once for a ram lamb from Adrian Davies's Glyn Coch flock and again for a shearling ram from the Probert's Mortimer flock. The ram lamb was purchased by Edward Mackley from Yorkshire and was a son of Galtres Fortune. The dam was herself 1st prize ewe lamb at the Royal Welsh and a full sister was 1st prize shearling ewe and res champion female at this years Royal Welsh Show. The shearling tup was sired by Harmby Moor Capelo out of a Mortimer Majestic ewe. Simon Hunter also from Yorkshire took this one home for his Skelton Whin flock.
The pre-sale show champion was a lamb out of the champion pen - Bryan Evans took both titles with his ram lambs. Heading the show classes was Parkgate Inferno, which Bryan had purchased earlier in the year at Lanark sale. This lamb sold for 1,100 gns to Mr Cyril Donerty also from North Yorkshire.
Huw Roberts' Bachymbyd Flock from North Wales had an exceptionally strong pen of shearling tups and these created much interest from commercial producers. All the 18 tups were sired by Inglis Director and levelled the day at £620, to a top of 900 gns. The Foulrice flock of Charles Marwood topped the shearling average prices with their pen of 12. Top of their trade was a Cwm Dunrig Edward son at 1,100 gns and the pen finished at £649.
1. Adrian Davies with his top-priced lamb, sold for 2,100 gns to Edward Mackley.
2. The top priced shearling ram at 2,100 gns with his purchaser Simon Hunter.
Reports on In-lamb Ewe and Ewe Lamb Sales 2008.
Charollais hit new heights at Penrhos
Brian and Jano Evans dispersal sale of their renowned Penrhos Flock
hit new heights for the Charollais breed when females topped at
4,300gns and 4,000gns producing unrivalled averages and a buying
contingent from across the country.
Top price of the day levelled at a massive 4,300 guinea bid for a
two year Cairnhill Developer ewe bred in John Ismay's
Another Eurostar embryo ewe lamb peaked at a creditable 3,100gns to
Welsh breeders Arwel Owen and Amanda Jones, Garthbelbro, Foel, with
a full embryo sister selling to 2,500gns to W. & C. Ingram, Logie
Durno,
Flock ewes with proven breeding and flushing records were closely
followed with 12 making well in excess of 1,000 guinea prices.
Shearling ewes enjoyed tremendous support with a top in this section
of 3,000gns for a Southam Easy Rider daughter carrying a single to
Foulrice Eurostar being knocked down to Myfyr Evans to join his
4,300gns purchase earlier in the day.
Auctioneer Clive Roads of McCartneys commented that demand, support,
quality and presentation of the sheep was nothing short of fantastic
with spirited bidding being reflected by that quality.
Averages:
47 Flock Ewes
av £946.12
28 Shearling Ewes
av £947.67
40 Ewe Lambs
av £942.90
24 Recipient Ewes with
Embryo Implants
av £560.00
1. Crowds gather at the Penrhos Dispersal Sale, where the overall average for 115 Lots was just under £1,000 per head.
2. Top price of 4,300 gns was paid by Myfyr Evans for this two-year old ewe in lamb to Gawsworth Fieldsman.
1. Top price ewe lamb, Lot 80 sold for 4,000 gns to Mr Peter Scott. She was sired by Foulrice Eurostar.
2. Next highest priced ewe lamb, Lot 96 at 3,100 gns sold to Arwel Owen and Amanda Jones from Welshpool
DEMAND CONTINUES STRONG FOR CHAROLLAIS
The Eight
Production Sale for established breeders at
The main flocks, Edstaston,
Knighton and Severn Gorge were joined with guest consignments from
Wraycastle, Glyn Goch and Wolston all enjoying a good cross section
of the trade.
Top price of the day levelled at
1,850gns for a shearling ewe carrying twins to Logie Durno Hercules
by Cairnhill Cavalier from Adrian Davies select Glyn Goch flock,
secured by Peter Scott, Coleford,
John and Richard Geldard,
Wraycastle, travelled from
Averages:
69 Shearling Ewes
-
av £385.23
16 Ewe Lambs -
av £318.28
Auctioneers:
McCartneys,
RUTLAND FLOCK GOES OUT IN STYLE
Buyers from all over the
Over 200 head came under the
hammer, with a top price of 2,400 gns paid for a shearling ewe.
Buyer of this big impressive ewe, sired by Crogham Five Star
was Mr David Roberts from Kenley in
Taking a number of the higher
priced animals was Mr William Ingram from the Logie Durno flock in
Aberdeenshire. Top of
his list was also a shearling ewe at 2,200 gns.
She was part of the
Two shear ewes with show
credentials topped their section.
Rutland Lightning, who was a multi-show winner in 2007 sold
for 2,100 gns to Mr Drew Cowan from
New breeder, Mr Matthew Reece
from Hanmer in
The ewe lambs saw the strongest trade of the day
to finish on an average of £433 for 47 sold.
The very last lot of the day topping this section at 2,050
gns. Getting in the last
bid for this Golden Promise lamb, was Welsh breeder, Mr Edwin Lewis
from Conwy.
A delightful pair of ewe
lambs, again by Golden Promise out of the 2,100 gns Rutland
Lightning, were the choice of David and Liz Mawhinney from
Auctioneers :
Clive Roads, McCartneys,
Averages :
49 Senior ewes averaged £298.71
38 Two shear ewes averaged £361.14
58 Shearling ewes averaged £412.40
3 Stock rams averaged £476.00
5 Ram lambs averaged £495.60
47 Ewe lambs averaged £432.73
(Left)
Lots 177 & 178 – Pair of ewe lambs sold for 1,600
gns apiece with purchasers David and Liz Mawhinney.
Flying Trade at Builth Wells Production Sale
A top of 2,800 gns and may bids over 1,000 gns ensured high average prices at the annual joint production sale of in-lamb ewes held at Builth Wells market on the 19th October. Topping the sale was a shearling ewe from Arwyn and Jane Thomas's Arjane flock. The ewe was in lamb to Southam Flagship and was sired by Galtres Dominator. Giving the final bid was John Davies from Biddulph Moor near Stoke on Trent. Mr Davies also took home the next highest priced shearling ewe at 2,600 gns, to join his Land End flock. Again by Galtres Dominator, this one was carrying twins to Galtres Guardian and came from Tim Prichard's Castellau flock.
The Castellau flock had a tremendous day; their 17 shearling ewes finished on an average of £1011.08. Bidding for the top end of the stock on offer was Mr Peter Scott from Coleford in Gloucestershire. He purchased a total of six lots at the sale; four from Castellau, three of which were over the 1,000 gns mark.
Next best for the Arjane consignment of 17 shearlings was one from the winning Interbreed Group of Three at the Royal Welsh Show in 2007. Carrying a single to Penrhos Ibanez, a purchase at the Welshpool Premier sale, this was bought for 1,800 gns by Mrs Donna Jones from Crickhowell, Powys.
Quest consignors, Tony and June Gregory from Mursley in Buckinghamshire had a top of 1,200 gns for their high index shearling ewe sired by Crogham Five Star. Purchaser was Adrian Davies from Manordeillo for his Glyn Coch flock.
Averages : 14 Older Ewes
averaged £456
59 Shearling ewes averaged £734
4 Ewe lambs averaged £210
Auctioneers : Brightwells, Hereford.
Top price at the Builth Market Joint Production sale, was Lot 19 from Arwyn Thomas's flock. Purchaser at 2,800 gns was John Davies from Stoke on Trent.
John Stott supreme at Skipton Charollais females show
A home-bred daughter of Chestnut Park Dumbledore worked its magic when chosen as supreme champion at the annual show and sale of pedigree females staged on behalf of the British Charollais Sheep Society at Skipton Auction Mart. (Sat, Oct 18)
The victor was a shearling ewe
from Cumbrian breeder John Stott, whose Kingsland flock is based at
Crosscrake, Stainton, near Kendal. Mr Stott acquired the sire as a
shearling in 2004 from
John
and Anne Griffiths’ southern-based
Mr Stott is no stranger to
success at the fixture, also having sent out the supreme champion
two years ago. This year’s title winner, making her debut in the
exhibition arena, sold for 380 guineas to DB Roberts, of Kenley,
Mr Roberts also paid the
show-topping price of 510 guineas for the third prize shearling from
The Hodgsons also exhibited
the first prize ewe and reserve supreme champion. Like the majority
of their Skipton consignment, the runner-up was in lamb to the
Welsh-bred sire Aberkinsey Earth Mover, having been scanned for
triplets. Related to the noted Parkgate line of Dumfries-based
Herbie Kennedy, chairman of the British Charollais Sheep Society,
she sold for 330 guineas to H Berry,
On a solid trading day, a total of ten lots made £300 or more, with 24 shearlings, all in lamb, averaging £258.20, and seven in-lamb ewes averaging £236.25.
Head to head - John Stott, right, with his Skipton Charollais female champion, joined by Stephen Hodgson and his reserve champion, and judge Kenton Foster, centre.
Charollais Shearling Ewes sells for 2,900 gns at Brecon
Trade was brisk at the Charollais Sheep
Society’s sale of in-lamb ewes at Brecon Market (23/10/08 )
where a shearling ewe topped the trade at 2,900 gns.
Bred by J & R
Hendy from Raglan in Monmouthshire, buyer for this one carrying
triplets was Mr J M Ryder from Annan Water in Dumfriesshire.
Mr Ryder took a total of five lots to
add to his newly formed Charollais flock.
Next best on the day was a shearling ewe from Mr
Adrian Davies, Carmarthenshire which sold at 1,050gns.
This one was carrying a single to top stock ram, Foulrice
Eurostar. Mr D L Jones
from Llandrindod Wells bought her plus another two from the same
pen.
Taking a couple of shearlings at 850 gns and 800
gns was Mr David A Evans from Llanwrda in Carmarthenshire.
His first purchase was from Mr Arwyn Thomas’s pen; a
shearling ewe sired by Galtres Dominator and scanned with twins to
Southam Flagship. The
next was from Mr Hendy’s consignment; a thick, powerful yearling
sired by Southam Friendly Lad.
Best of the ewe lambs came from Mr David Curran
from Talgarth in Brecon.
His progeny of Wards Hill Goliath sold for 350 gns to Paul Amphlett
also from Brecon.
51 Senior and Shearling Ewes averaged £443.06
9
Ewe lambs averaged £242.08
Auctioneers : McCartneys
DAUGHTER OF SOUTHAM EROS TOPS
SOUTHAM PRODUCTION
SALE
Lionel Organ held his
bi-annual production sale on farm at Rhos, Carmarthenshire and saw a
strong trade for his young stock.
Myfyr Evans from Llanrhaeadr, Nr.
Denbigh paid the top price of 2250gns for one of the stars of the
sale,
NE 7275, a smart daughter of
Southam Eros carrying twins to Southam Exotic.
Next in line was NE7114, a smart, long wide backed ewe by
Foxhill Farm Gemini purchased for 2000gns by Brian Davies from
Brecon, also carrying twins by Southam Exotic.
The dam of this ewe is also dam of the renowned Southam
Flagship
Edward Lewis
from Gyffin, Conwy purchased NE 7102 for 1700gns.
This big, powerful daughter of Southam Freddie Flintoff is
also carrying twins by Southam Exotic.
Tim Prichard
went to 1700gns for NE 7151, a powerful ewe by Foxhill Farm Gemini
in lamb to Exotic.
The dam was a ewe purchased from Stuart Dunkley’s Hyde flock in 2004
at the Rutland Production Sale.
Topping the
ewe lambs was a daughter of Carthorpe Grand Duke purchased by David
Mawhinney from
82 shearling
ewes averaged £469.68
Top 2250gns
6 ewe lambs averaged £246.75
Top 290gns.
Record price achieved at N. Ireland Female Sale
Charollais Females in Northern Ireland reached a new high at their recent sale in Dungannon Market when two Scottish Breeders paid out a N. Ireland record price of 4000gns for an in-lamb shearling from the Lornbrook Flock of Diane Christie. National Chairman, Herbie Kennedy from Dumfries and fellow Scottish Breeder Brian Harvey were obviously impressed with this Parkgate Glenmorangie daughter who has had a great season in the show ring.
In addition to this purchase the Scottish partnership of Kennedy and Harvey paid out a further 2500gns for another Parkgate Glenmorangie daughter who had also featured strongly in the Lornbrook show team all summer. The Lornbrook Flock achieved the top pen average of the night at 1500gns for six sold.
In-lamb shearlings were in big demand with buyers having to dig deep for their purchases. David and Liz Mawhinney had twenty lots forward, selling to a top of 920gns for a Wraycastle Gladstone daughter.
Ewe lambs were also in demand with the Carnew Flock of Jonathan Aiken selling to a top of 1300gns. This stylish daughter of Loaning Foot Highlander was secured by a telephone bid from Eddie and Sheena McCarthy, County Cork who also purchased a Foulrice Danny Boy daughter from the same pen at 880gns.
Chairman Drew Cowan was delighted with the sale “Averages were up with fifty five ewes averaging four hundred and sixty five guineas, there was a lot of interest from South of the Border with over twenty five per cent of the sheep going South. Scottish interest also made a major impact on the sale. It’s great to see the high quality of Charollais Sheep in Northern Ireland being recognised.”
Trevor Bell (sitting) with his top price shearling ewe, sold to Herbie Kennedy(left) and Brian Harvey (right) for 4,000 gns.
Averages:- 55 Shearling Ewes av. £488.15 29 Ewe Lambs av. £291.28