WALLETS MARTS CASTLE DOUGLAS LIMITED
OTM, STORE & BREEDING CATTLE
MONDAY 8th OCTOBER 2018
Wallets Marts Castle Douglas Limited held their fortnightly store and OTM sale in conjunction with their October Breeding Cattle Sale on Monday 8th October 2018.
A much plainer show of 53 OTM cattle met a selective trade with well fleshed cows still being the easiest to sell. Topping the trade at £1165.80 was an Aberdeen Angus cow from Messrs Lindsay, Culnaightrie. Top price per kg in the cow section was 138p paid again to Messrs Lindsay, Culnaightrie for another AA cow. Cast bulls made to 126p and £1030.68 for a Limousin cross from Larglea. Overall sale average levelled at 102.27p per kg or £607.47.
A small select show of 14 Store cattle easily found new homes selling to £1080 for a Charolais bullock from Cogarth. Charolais heifers from the same home sold to £990. Bullocks averaged 198.82p whilst heifers levelled at 195.3p.
170 head of breeding animals were forward and sold at the annual October sale of breeding cattle. Trade was better than most had anticipated greatly helped by a full ringside of bidders. Topping the trade at £2150 was a Limousin heifer with a Limousin bull calf at foot from Messrs Fisher, Flathill. The Flathill consignment of 14 heifers and calves averaged £1795. 9 heifers and calves from Garmartin topped at £1980 and averaged £1701. 7 heifers and calves from Derrie, Port William sold to £1900 and averaged £1787. A feature of the sale was the part dispersal of the Dalhanna herd of AAX and SalersX cows with springborn Charolais calves at foot. The cows ranged from 6 years to 14 years old and topped at £2000 to average £1282. Also forward was the dispersal of breeding cattle from Mrs Repton, Auchencairn which topped at £1100 for a Galloway X Cow and Galloway bull calf.
BULLOCKS
£1080, £950 Cogarth; £880 Edingham
HEIFERS
£990, £860
OTM
Cows
£1165, £1005 Culnaightrie; £1032, £1020 Trolane
Bulls
£1030 Larglea
Breeding Cattle
Heifers with bull calves at foot
£2150, £2080, £2050 Flathill; £1980, £1900, £1850 Garmartin; £1900 Derrie
Heifers with heifer calves at foot
£1920, £1900, £1850(x2), £1820 Flathill; £1900, £1880 Derrie; £1800 Garmartin
Cows with bull calves at foot
£2000, £1450(x3); £1420 Dalhanna
Cows with heifer calves at foot
£1820, £1780, £1600 Dalhanna
Bulling Heifer
£800 Auchenleck
WALLETS MARTS CASTLE DOUGLAS LIMITED
TUESDAY 9 OCTOBER 2018
WEEKLY PRIMESTOCK SALE
Wallets Marts Castle Douglas Limited on Tuesday 9 October 2018 had forward 1175 prime and cast sheep.
759 prime lambs were sharper selling to average 168.15 (SQQ 170.19). Top today was £84 for Exels from Maryfield, New Abbey, and to 182.7 for Beltex from Messrs Adams, Torhousekie, Wigtown.
416 Cast sheep sold well apart from light, plain ewes which were hard to place. Ewes sold to £110 for Texels from Messrs Farries, Byrecroft and to £88 for BFL Rams from R Watson, Slatehouse.
Leading Lamb per head
81 32.1 – 39 Average 166.52 Top 179
Texel
£68 Kings Grange; £67 Brockloch; £66 Dergoals
Berrichon
£66 Lochside
Blackface
£52.50 Lochside
456 39.1 – 45.5 Average 170.68 Top 182.7
Beltex
£77.50 Upper Hardland; £76, £75 Torhouskie
Texel
£77.50 Wellhill; £77 Valleyfield; £76 Brockloch; £75 Fauld O’ Wheat; £75 Torhouskie; £75 Castlehill
Suffolk
£73 Boreland of Parton
Greyface
£70 Wellhill; £69 Tarbreoch; £68 Hannaston
204 45.6 – 52 Average 165.69 Top 172.8
Texel
£84 Maryfield; £83.50 Hannaston; £83(x2) Tarbreoch; £83 Byrecroft; £82.50 Upper Hardland; £81 Breconside; £80.50 Byrecroft; £80 Castlegower
Suffolk
£79.50 Balannan; £79.50 Boreland of Parton; £76 Breconside; £75.50 Glensone
Cast Sheep
EWES
Texel
£110 Byrecroft; £100 Cullinaw; £100 Byrecroft; £86 Trowdale; £85 Fauld O’ Wheat; £85 Shennanton
Suffolk
£82 Shennanton
Greyface
£74 Byrecroft; £71 Dergoals; £69 Balannan; £66 Kenmure, Kirkcowan
Cheviot
£74, £63 Shennanton
Lleyn
£51 Hartburn; £48 Clonyard
Blackface
£49 Dergoals, £40 Fauld O’ Wheat
BFL Ram
£88 Slatehouse
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