Dingwall & Highland Marts Ltd - Sale 19 September 2014

19th September 2014

DINGWALL, Dingwall & Highland Marts Ltd., (September, 19th) sold 4,545 store lambs and sheep.
Lambs (4,545) sold to £62 gross for Blackfaces from Old Croft House, Brae of Balnabeen.

"A good show of Blackface lambs met an excellent trade ahead of expectations. Prizes for the best pens of Blackface lambs in the show kindly sponsored by The Blackface Sheep Society were awarded as follows:
1st Mr D. J. Macdonald, 13 Peinchorran, Braes
2nd Messrs W. R. MacIntyre & Co, Tulloch
3rd Messrs R. G. O. & K. Watson, Drynie Farm."

Other leading prices per head
Lambs: BF wdr las - 13 Peinchorran, Portree, £55, Unakille Sheep Stock Club, £53.50, 30 Big Sand, Gairloch, £52.50; BF ewe las – 1 & 8 Drynoch, Carbost, & 13 Peinchorran, £52, Humpton, Spinningdale, £43.50; 4 North Udrigle, Laide, & North Raasay Sheep Stock Club, £41; SuffX – Westhill View, Inverness, £59, Balvonie of Daviot, Daviot, & Westhill View, £58, 7 Culnacnock, Staffin, £48.50; Mule – Abersky, Torness, £57, Gorthleck Mains, Gorthleck, £54, Balvonie of Daviot, £53; Chev – 4 & 5 Totescore, Portree, £55.50, 13 Peinchorran, £55, 1 & 3 Ose, Struan, £54.50; TexX – Balvonie of Daviot, £55, Moorcroft, Lochussie, £54, 2 Kelso Cottage, Strathcarron, £52.50; Cross – 1 Rychraggan, Drumnadrochit, £53; Humpton, Spinningdale, & 13 Toscaig, Applecross, £51; 4 & 5 Totescore, £50.50; CharX – 13 Toscaig, £48.50.