Scots Gap Primestock

Prime Sheep

Scots Gap Auction Mart sold 274 prime lambs to a top of £140 twice.

The sale averaged 248ppk at £118 per head and was topped twice at the same figure by two tremendous pens of Texel cross lambs by homebred rams from Messrs Clarke, Brinkburn Newhouses.

Leading prices;

Prime Lambs

Texel x – £140 Brinkburn Newhouses (x2), £136 Butterknowes, £134 High Baulk, £132 East Shaftoe, £130 & £128 Butterknowes, £127 Catreen, £126 East Shaftoe, £125.50 & £124.50 Butterknowes, £122 Holling Hill, £120 East Shaftoe

281.0p East Shaftoe, 272.6p Black Callerton, 264.4p High Baulk, 262.2p East Shaftoe, 261.9p High Baulk, 260.5p Forestburngate & Black Callerton, 255.8p Forestburngate, 255.0p Field Head, 254.4p Catreen, 254.1p Butterknowes

Suffolk x – £129.50 Holling Hill, £129 Brinkburn Newhouses, £128 Butterknowes, £125 & £124 Holling Hill

246.2p Butterknowes, 243.8p Black Callerton, 238.9p Brinkburn Newhouses, 238.5p Holling Hill

Mule – £120 Holling Hill, £113.50 Black Callerton

246.7p Black Callerton

Millenium – £106 & £102 Forestburngate

252.4p Forestburngate