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Carlisle Autumn Sale of Easycare Sheep

29th September 2017

Harrison & Hetherington held their Annual Autumn sale of Easy Care sheep on Friday 29th September, where an aged ram sold for the top price of the day of 750gns.

This ram was consigned by Anglesey based R Owen & Partners and was purchased on the day by JM & VJ Howard from Holme, Huddersfield.

The same home sold another aged ram for 700gns the purchaser on this occasion was Michael Clarke from Blairgowrie who also purchased a shearling from Messrs Howard for the same money.

The females topped at £118 for 12 shearling gimmers from Brownrigg Hall Farms purchased by Sarah Banks from Ripon.

Messrs Graves, Hesket House, Carlisle sold two lots of 30 shearling gimmers for £108 and £105 respectively, purchased by EJ & S Hinchsliffe, Bank House Farm and Thompson Livestock Ltd, Penrith.

Leading Prices:
Aged Rams: 750gns, 700gns, 620gns, 450gns, 420gns Trefri
Shearling Rams: 700gns, 420gns Lane Farm, 650gns, 500gns Monellie, 620gns, 400gns Scratchmere Scar, 500gns, 450gns East Tullyfergus

Shearling Gimmers: £118 Brownrigg Hall, £108, £105, £100(x3) Hesket House, £100(x2) Pedder Hill

Society Notes:

The Carlisle Society Sale was rather stressful as there was a closure of the M6 Northbound at Junction 36 so a lot of people who were travelling from South of that junction endured a long and winding journey.  To compound this there was a further problem below Lancaster so again, big problems for anyone trying to get to the sale. 

 The 10.30am sale start was delayed by half an hour but some vendors still failed to arrive.  Buyers were also delayed so the sale started to a depleted audience.  

In the face of adversity the trade was good and the Auctioneer did an excellent job in helping to accommodate the problems on the morning and in selling the stock.

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Brisk trade for Easy Care sheep at the Society Annual Sale in Worcester September 2017

An excellent show of strong, well shed and correctly presented sheep greeted buyers from all over the UK on Saturday 23rd September at the Society's annual breeding sale.

Females of all ages found homes to start new flocks or increase existing ones.  

Sale Report from Worcester

EASYCARE RAMS TO 1400gns AT WORCESTER

The strong feature of the Easycare Sheep Society’s Annual Sale at Worcester was Yearling Rams which were hotly contested throughout and peaking at 1,400gns.

The top price went to a MyoMax Gold carrier from longtime breeders JE & MS Davies and secured by O. Brayne, High Peak, Derbyshire.  

Another four figure price went to JD Davies & Co for an April born Yearling at 1,050gns to JM & VJ Howard, Holmfirth, Yorks, and another strong yearling at 820gns to Glentham Farming, Lincoln.  

HV & MW Thomas had a strong consignment of MyoMax Gold and Silver all of which found favour from a strong company of buyers and topped at 850gns to D. Cliff & Son, Grantham, Lincs.  

WG & MO Davies also enjoyed some of the action with 820gns topping their entry and taken by Mrs JC Hewitt, Sissinghurst, Kent.

Yearling Ewes were closely followed and peaked at £130 twice for pens from GH Roper to AR Brittain, Nuneaton, Warks and from D. Prosser to S. Banks, Ripon, Yorks.

Averages:

           240   Yearling Ewes              av £122.30

           292   Ewe Lambs                    av £67.90

             79   Yearling Rams             av £520.61

Auctioneers:

                   McCartneys Worcester

                   01905 769770

The final market breeding sale of the season is at Carlisle on Friday 29th September starting at 10.30am.  The sales catalogue can be downloaded from the Society Sales page on this website

Society Sales

Please note the Society Sales are for paid up members only.  Please avoid us having to chase you for £25 on the day. 

The rams are sold in guineas [one pound and five pence] and will have an upset price of usually 200gns but this can be altered if discussed and agreed with ram vendors on the day.  Ram lambs and senior rams may be less than 200gns.

First Easy Care Sale at Skipton Market

The first Easy Care sale at Skipton had a smallish but good quality show of true to type Easy Care sheep.  The mart had ensured the sale was well advertised with at least 6 entries in the Farmers Guardian and Yorkshire Post plus their own website and facebook pages.

Easy Care Sheep tags

Please note, you can ring up your preferred tag supplier and request that they supply you with tags with EASYCARE written on.  There are no favoured suppliers of tags within the Society.

Daily Telegraph Letter

Self-shearing sheep.

Sir - Everyone must surely agree with Prince Charles about the superlative qualities of wool and wish him every success in his Campaign for Wool (Magazine, September 3).

Newsletter Summer 2015

The annual Open Day as held by kind permission of Richard an Caroline Owen at Trefri, Bodorgan, Anglesey on 20th June. We held the Annual General Meeting at Iolo Owen's farm prior to the Open Day.

Spring 2015 Newsletter

This will probably be my last letter as your secretary. I have had a lot of head scratching and a lot of pleasure writing them over the past 12 years. I have certainly learned to appreciate the work of those who churn articles out to various publications on a regular basis.

Winter 2014 Newsletter

We are the most rapidly increasing breed in the UK – and that’s official in the recent E.B.L.E.X report on the state of British sheep breeds based on a survey of over 10,000 sheep farmers and published roughly every 10 years.  The ‘Easy Care’ have risen from 13,000 in 2003 when the society was formed to 119,000 in 2013 and increase of over 80% annually.  I’m sure if all the grading up numbers were shown it would be significantly more – Congratulations!