Stock For Sale

FUTURE OPEN DAYS AND AGM

EasyCare Sheep Society

Society AGM & Open Day 2020

Saturday 26^th September 2020

CANCELLED - DUE TO COVID -19 SAFETY CONCERNS

EasyCareTM Sheep Society Sale - Exeter Market

Exeter 2020 sale – top prices

Yearling Rams to 310gns from I Prouse to P Jones, Newquay

Senior ewes to £106 from K Kearney to NRK & MJ Brock, Shebbear

Yearling Ewes to £136 from C Alderman to GA Heywood, Buckland Brewer

Ewe lambs to £96 from French Beer Farms to DF & AM Burrough & Son, Higher Abbey Farm

200 ewes sold and 17 yearling rams

EasyCareTM Sheep Society Sale - Gaerwen Mart, Anglesey

Sale report for the 2020 season

Highest Priced EasyCare Ewes £136 - A Hughes, Cae Melwr, Llanrwst £136 - A Hughes, Cae Melwr, Llanrwst £102 - R Owen & Partners, Trefri, Bodorgan

Highest Priced EasyCare Rams 280gns - R I Owen, Gorlan, Glantraeth

EasyCareTM Sheep Society Sale Worcester

WORCESTER EASYCARE TO 2,300gns

A fierce and competitive trade for rams was the feature of the EasyCare Sheep Society’s Annual Sale at Worcester with Yearling Rams peaking at a very creditable 2,300gns.

The group 1 genotype, carrying two myostatin genes rocketed to the top price of the day from JE & MS Davies, Aberystwyth based flock and secured by J O Adams & Son, Northampton. Messrs Davies also took the second highest price at 1,900gns for another double myostatin carrier taken by long time supporters of the sale, Glentham Farming Co, Lincoln.

Rams carrying the myostatin genes were very much in demand and JM & VJ Howard, West Yorkshire enjoyed a strong following with four rams selling at 1,500gns to C Alderman, Lostwithiel, Cornwall 1,450gns to D Steen, Dumfries 1,300gns to J Cork, Codsall, Wolverhampton and 850gns to M Strange, Newport, Gwent.

Females were closely followed and topped at £144, for a pen of yearling ewes from G S Wiltshire, Hertford, selling to M Strange, Newport, Gwent the same purchaser taking another pen at £139. A third pen from G S Wiltshire levelled at £141 to A Bradshaw, Church Stretton, Shropshire.

Other yearling ewes sold to £140 twice from R & R Owen, Bettws to DJ & M Edwards, Redditch, Worcestershire and R Cook, Lutterworth, Leics respectively. The same vendor selling two pens of ewe lambs at £104 and £101 to DJ & M Edwards and G Hussey, Leicester.

Averages:

152 Yearling Ewes av £128.49

95 Ewe Lambs av £89.71

15 Senior Rams av £283.50

69 Yearling Rams av £517.39

5 Ram Lambs av £226.80

Auctioneers:

McCartneys, Worcester

Tel: 01905 769770

EasyCareTM Sheep Society Sale - Carlisle Market

EasyCare rams sold to 1,600gns twice at Carlisle. Firstly for a yearling shown by Richard Cook of WE Cook [Farmers], Aylesbury which went to Michael Clarke, Blairgowrie.

The other ram at the same money was from A Brewster and son, Forfar, purchased by Messrs Nelson of Castle Douglas.

Other yearling rams from A Brewster & Son sold for 1,400gns, 1,200gns and 1,000gns to Burnside Farms, Forfar, Michael Clarke and James Howard, Holme, near Holmfirth. It was certainly worth them making the trip.

Females topped at £142/head from Richard Cook selling to David Anderson, Lochgilphead with others from the same home making £138/head to Messrs Harrison of Barnard Castle.

Ewe lambs from Messrs Murray, Dumfries made £101 and £98

Averages

36 rams £520.33

226 females £94.94

EasyCareTM Sheep Society Sale - Skipton Auction Mart

Results for Skipton Sale 2020

65 yearling ewes and one yearling ram entered

Hobson, Bingley - sold 10 yearling ewes to 120 guineas to Laycock, Silsden Moor

Hobson, Bingley - 30 unsold yearling ewes

Casswell, Gainsborough - sold 25 yearling ewes to 80 guineas

Garnett, Skipton - yearling ram 170 guineas to Waddington, Tosside