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Carlisle In-lamb Ewe Sale
6th December 2002

Top Price - 2,200gns.

Partners Gordon Connor and Scott Dalrymple continued their successful year for sales when they topped the collective Beltex in-lamb ewe sale on Friday December 6th at Borderway Mart, Carlisle.

The pair from Boness, West Lothian, had only consigned two females which made 2,200gns and 1,000gns from their Dun-Mor hobby flock of 20 ewes, making their best sale yet. The sale conducted by Harrison & Hetherington topped their best so far which had been at the Carlisle August 2002 sale when a home-bred August 2001 born ewe by an imported sire which was female champion at the Great Yorkshire Show, sold for 1,550gns.

Topping the in-lamb trade for them was a July 2001 born twin, in lamb to a scrapie R2 genotyped tup bought from John Hall, of Inglewood Edge. The ewe is by a Hofkins tup bought from Gavin Shanks and Alan Thom, of Bowmanhurst Farm, Brownlee Estate, Carluke, Lanark. Its mother, Bonstone Annie, was bought at the in-lamb sale in Carlisle five years previously.

UK-bred females were in demand at the sale which averaged £411.85 for 58 head sold.

Dunure Gimmer - 1,900gns.

The sale also featured the dispersal of the Dunure Beltex flock for John McIlwraith who has changed direction in his farming business at Balig Farm, Doon Foot, Ayr, to concentrate on Gold Top milk production from an eventual herd of 300 Jersey milkers.

Dunure prices peaked at 1,900gns for a shearling gimmer sired by the successful tup Am Yer Man. The gimmer was an early birthday present from Frank Robinson for his wife Auriol who is re-building numbers of her 20-ewe Highlander Beltex flock based at Thetford, Horncastle, Lincolnshire, after family matters forced a reduction. The gimmer, which is in lamb to Southholm Dynamo caught Mrs Robinson’s eye because of her type and size. She also has a successful ewe from the mother’s line.

Mr McIlwraith said it was a sad day to disperse the flock he established in 1992 and he didn’t rule out coming back into the breed in the future.
“The breed has a very good future in this country,” he said.

Dunure Beltex flock -
Averages: 20 ewes, £380.63; 9 shearling gimmers, £617.17; 9 ewe lambs, £375.67.
Leading prices: Lot 134, 1900gns, F & AC Robinson, Highlander Farm, Tetford, Horncastle, Lincolnshire.
132, 550gns to H Moffat, Hamswell Farm, Lansdown, Bath.
137, 550gns, to H Moffat.
101, 500gns to JY Barclay & Co, Mid Brockloch, Maybole, Ayrshire.
115, 500gns to Bart Marsden, Halsteads Farm, West Bradford, Clitherie, Lancashire.

Collective Beltex sale –
Averages: 58 head, £411.85
Leading prices: 188, 2,200gns to T Hunter, Newtown Farm, Hunmanby, Filey.
189, 1,000gns to J Prentice, Southeast Longridge Farm, by Bathgate, West Lothian.
155, 700gns to J & A Martin, Hilltop Farm, St John’s Chapel, Bishop Auckland, Co Durham.
181, 650gns to DG Cunningham, Walker Dyke Farm, Strathaven, Lanarkshire.
219, 600gns to JA McGarva, Horseclose Farm, Cummertrees, Annan, Dumfriesshire.
176, 550gns to IL McIlwraith, Mouldyhills, Canonbie, Dumfriesshire.