Dingwall & Highland Marts - Sale 7 March 2009

7th March 2009

DINGWALL, Dingwall & Highland Marts (March, 7th) sold 11 cattle, 38 sheep, 388 lots of poultry and 32 lots of poultry equipment at their poultry and rare breeds of livestock sale.
Cattle (11) sold to �800 for a Highland bull from Kentallen, Aros, Isle of Mull.
Sheep (38) sold to �78 for a Dorset ewe with a tup lamb at foot from Smallburn Farms, Elgin.
Poultry (388) sold to �120 for a quartet of Gold Sebright bantams from Doune Park, Stirling.
Other leading prices
Cow and male calf: Hgh - Ardmore, Portree, �400. Cow and heifer calf: Hgh - Ardmore, �380. Heifers: Hgh - Logiehill, Kildary, �370.
Rams: Zwa - Balvraid, Muir of Ord, �75. Ewe with lambs: Dorset - Smallburn Farms, �60; JCBX - Bogallan, North Kessock, �52; JCB - Bogallan, �48; ShetX - Bogallan, �46.
Poultry leading prices per section
Large Fowl: Pair Vorwerk - �100; 3 Cuckoo Maran pullets - �85; 2 Welsummer pullets - �75.
Call ducks: Pair Chocolate - �70; Pair Apricot - �60; Pair White - �60.
Ducks: Trio European Shellduck - �75; 5 Cherry Valley - �55; 3 Aylesbury - �55.
Bantams: Pair Sebright - �100; Trio Gold Sebright - �90; 2 White Silkie pullets - �80.
Guinea fowl: Pair - �35; Pair - �32.
Pheasant: Pair Golden - �40; 1 Golden Male - �40; Pair Lady Amhurst - �30.
Quail: Trio Californian - �80; Pair Californian - �60.
Geese: 1 Embden female - �85; Pair White Embden - �70; Pair Embden - �60.