CCM Skipton’s final Tuesday sheep sale of the season attracted a turnout of 244 breeding sheep and rams, the latter, 52 in all, meeting phenomenal trade throughout.
Texel shearlings were in notably high demand, the section producing an overall selling average of £1,269 and a solid leading price of 1,950gns, plus others at 1,850gns and 1,400gns, from regular Wharfedale vendors and breed stalwarts, Mark and Helen Keighley, Manderlea flock, Leathley.
Adam Stockdale, Eshton, sold a solid tight-skinned Texel at 1,450gns, plus a Blue Texel shearling ram at 850gns, with another Texel shearling from Andy Lambert, Hellifield, making 1,300gns, the same home also achieving 1,400gns for a Beltex-cross 2-shear with size.
John Beckwith and family, Gargrave, led the Beltex shearlings at 900gns, while Ken Dickinson, Foulridge, sold powerful Blue Faced Leicesters shearlings at 800gns, the same price going to another strong same way bred tup from the ever-present Mason family, Oddacres, Embsay, who also sold Blue Faced Leicester lambs to 450gns.
The Blue Faced Leicester shearling ram selling average was £583, while Beltex shearling rams levelled at £336.
BFL aged tups sold to 700gns from JW Stockdale & Sons, Burnsall, while Suffolk shearling rams peaked at 650gns from the Lawn family, Skipton.
A handful of breeding sheep saw North of England Mule shearlings sell at £280 from SIM-x, Silsden, with Texel-x shearlings from Martin Stocks, Hebden Bridge, away at £290 and £270.
Texel 2-shear ewes sold to £305 from T Craddock & Son, Bolton-by-Bowland, broken-mouthed Swaledale ewes making to £98 from Hayton & Stocks, Bolton Abbey, with plenty of plainer end broken-mouthed ewes £70-£80.
Broken-mouthed Mule ewes sold to £165, again from the Burnsall Stockdales.
Breeding sheep sales at CCM will now be held fortnightly on Wednesdays, the same day as store sheep.
As usual catalogues can be found at www.ccmauctions.com
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