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Ruthin Farmers Auction

Store & Breeding Sale Report

Thursday, October 7

66 Heifers to £1490

148 Steers to £1560

45 Calves to £455

42 Stirks to £920

26 OTMs to £1534.50 - 198ppk

2751 Store Lambs to £103.50

592 Store Ewes to £185

216 Rams to 700gns

1174 Ewe Lambs to £130

4 Cows & Calves to £1940

2 Bulls to 1320gns

Store Cattle

Auctioneer Rich Lloyd 07557230777

Numbers continue to come in well with a show of 240 store cattle forward today with demand plentiful from start to finish.

Steers

H Roberts & Co, Plas Dinam were well rewarded for some cracking Lim steers from £1520-£1560.

RO & FF Edwards, Llwyn Tywysog also tipping at £1510 for 4 peas in a pod 22 month Lim steers.

AG & EL Jones, Aeddren also achieving £1415 for a 19 month Lim steer.

Few other prices…

22 month British Blue-£1335

19 month Aberdeen Angus-£1310

16 month Charolais -£1260

12 month Simmental £1080

Heifers

Some of today’s top prices-

JG & ML Evans,Ty Cerrig with a cracking 23 month Charolais heifer topping at £1490.

Hughes & Griffiths, Gwerni on quality street again this week with a heifer at £1380 and Mrs Nesta Rees,Bryn Ffynnon with a lovely 28 month Lim heifer at £1320.

other prices..

24 month British Blue £1300

16 month Charolais £1285

14 month Lim £1180

17 month Simmental |£1035

Another cracking show of cattle with some real quality forward,a credit to the vendors.

Entries already coming in well for next week,give us a call to discuss or pre enter.

Diolch yn fawr/ Thank you.

OTMs

Auctioneer Rich Lloyd 07557230777

42 month Lim weighing 775kg- 198ppk

51 month Lim weighing 720kg- 185ppk

76 month Lim weighing 620kg- 176ppk

48 month BB weighing 830kg - 173ppk

53 month Charolais weighing 715kg-170ppk

54 month BB weighing 800kg- 170ppk

62 month Lim weighing 630kg- 166ppk

112 month Lim weighing 785kg- 165ppk

216 month Lim weighing 755kg-164ppk

90 month Charolais weighing 770kg-162ppk

184 month Lim weighing 730kg-160ppk

46 month BB weighing 630kg-154ppk

49 month BB weighing 850kg- 150ppk

160 month Lim weighing 575kg-148ppk

112 month Lim weighing 690kg-140ppk

149 month Lim weighing 605kg-140ppk

Calves

Auctioneer Dafydd Parry 07780924460

A few young dairy types on offer today with demand remaining strong for all calves.

Keep them coming!

Top prices

Top price goes to C & HV Parry,Sychdyn for a Lim bull selling to £455.

Other prices

British Blue bull £375

Lim heifer £355

British Blue heifer £340

Younger Calves

Simmental bull £335

British Blue bull £270

Lim heifer £270

Aberdeen Angus £220

Norwegian red bull £220

Holstein bull £80

More Calves required next week please!

Weanlings

Auctioneer Dafydd Parry 07780924460

An improved trade on the week with a few men looking for bulls and those suckler bred types.

Top price goes to H P Roberts, Bryngwyn selling an 8 month old Charolais bullock to £920 with a 6 month old Charolais heifer to £700.

Other prices

Dairy bred 11 month Lim heifer £695.

6 month old Aberdeen Angus bull £455

6 month old Lim bull £540

6 month old British Blue bulls £535

Remember the catalogued sale of suckler bred weanling calves on Saturday 9th of

October. Entry forms available online or in the market office.

Store Lambs

Auctioneer Elfor Morris 07867977705

Magnificent show of 2710 store lambs today with trade as buoyant as ever,strongest tup lambs from £90 to £103.50 followed closely with the strongest ewe lambs in the late £80 early £90 mark. Longer keep lambs looking well sold from the £68 to £80 with

lighter lambs from £368 to £68.

Top price went to J M Jones, Tan y Waen achieving £103.50 for Texel ram lambs followed closely behind by H W Williams,Llawr y Betws with £102.50 for Texel ram lambs.

Breeding Ewe Lambs

Auctioneer Elfor Morris 07867977705

1071 breeding ewe lambs with a consistent trade, best up to £130 but majority in the early to late £90s.

Texel x Mules from £90 to £114. Welsh Mules from £72 to £90.

Top price goes to DG & MW Davies, Nant y Wrach achieving £130 for Beltex x ewe lambs.

Diolch/Thank you

Breeding Ewes

Auctioneer Paul Roberts 0787977702

592 ewes forward with a brisker trade on Welsh today. Stronger ewes also in demand with fewer about.

Top price went to R Peacock,Chapel Farm for Texel ewes at £185

Texel 2t to £185

Tal y Bont to £150

Mule 2t to £138

Cheviot x 3yo to £112

Welsh 4&5 yo to £96

Welsh Mountain 2t to £94

Please remember to book your ewes in for next week.

Contact Paul Roberts on 07867977702.

Breeding Rams

Auctioneer Dafydd Parry 07780924460

The hall was full to the brim with the overflow having to be penned in the sheep shed.

Considering the numbers trade was firm from the beginning right through to the end! Please keep numbers coming.

Texel 2t 700gns

Chev 2t 380gns

Beltex 2t 580gns

Suffolk 2t 480gns

Lleyn 2t 360gns

Texel 6t to 300gns

Suffolk 4t to 320gns

Cheviot 4t to 250gns

Texel fm to 200gns

Texel x Suffolk fm to 220gns.

Remember next week we will have the Tal y Bont Rams sale.

Cows and Calves

Auctioneer Dafydd Parry 07780924460

Lim first calver with a Lim heifer calf at foot £1940.

Aged cows with calves at foot and 3 month in calf sold to £995.

Next Breeding Sale 21st October.

Ruthin Farmers Auction

Prime Stock Report

Friday, October 8

1147 Prime Lambs to £128- 261.2ppk

407 Ewes to £124

Prime Lambs

8804 sheep changing postcodes this week and a good Friday show today of 1147 lambs meeting a very good trade and an SQQ of 230.4ppk with an overall average of 230.5ppk.

Some of today’s top prices.

Top price

53.5kg @£125 -C E Hancock & Son,Brook Farm

50kg @ £120 -GE & A Williams & Son, Ty’n y Bryn

55kg @ £118 -N L Rowlands, Dre Goch

Top price per kilo

44kg @ 259.1ppk -C E Hancock & Son,Brook Farm

34kg @ 254ppk - F Davies & Son, Bank Farm

34kg @ 252.9ppk -RDG Hughes, Ty Cerrig

Lights to 229.5ppk av 212.3ppk

Standards to 254.4ppk av 231ppk

Mediums to 259.1 av 231.1ppk

Heavies to av 232.5ppk av 261.2ppk

Overweights to 233.6ppk av 226.4ppk

Cull Ewes

407 Ewes & Rams, good trade had by all, mostly grazing and Welsh hill.