To all Sales vendors and show goers,
Please be reminded that the shearing date is the 1st March NOT 1st February as was changed last year.
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Holly Plant and Andrew Amor's Pauntley Oxford Down flock from Gloucestershire produced a great result for the breed at the Royal Welsh Winter Fair when a pure Oxford carcase from the flock took third prize in a native class with 31 entries. It graded R3L. This success highlights the Oxford ram's capability as a terminal sire.
Oxford Downs consigned to the Carlisle native breeds sale 2023 by Andrew Rutherford of Guards Farm, Gretna, Dumfriesshire peaked at £450 twice, for both rams and gimmers from his Langrigg flock.
There was strong demand for the gimmers and more could have been sold. Leading the females at £450 was a gimmer sired by the former breed record holder Billesdons Braveheart and which has been running with service sire Greenlands Garrosh. It sold to Jack Richardson to add to his Rose-Dene flock at Newton-on-Derwent, York. Another two gimmers went to the same home at £400 apiece.
Just behind the top bid was a £420 sale to Adam Atkins of Atkins Agriculture, Mason Green Farm, Halifax, West Yorkshire buying for the Mountainstorm flock.
Local breeder Matthew Tomkins from Hallsford Farm, Hethersgill, Carlisle, Cumbria took a further two Langrigg gimmers at £400 each to join his Hallsford Oxford flock which runs alongside a Llanwenog flock that is used to supply the Tomkins’ farm shop business.
Top price for rams was a £450 Langrigg shearling selling to Tom & Sue Lamb for the Fleetham flock at East Fleetham, Seahouses, Northumberland. This one is a son of Billesdons Braveheart out of a Langrigg Ranger ewe. Two Langrigg shearling rams made £300, firstly to Matthew Tomkins, Hallsford and the second crossing the Border to go for commercial work with Messrs Andrew, Newmills of Monkwood, Maybole, Ayrshire.
Sale Summary
7 gimmers sold to £450 and averaged £395.71
3 shearling rams sold to £450 and averaged £350.00
Overall, 10 head sold to £450 and averaged £382.00
Auctioneers: Harrison & Hetherington
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