QUOYBRAE, Aberdeen & Northern Marts (31ST July 2007) Special Sale
1st August 2007
QUOYBRAE, Aberdeen & Northern Marts (31ST July) sold 48 Cattle and 281 Sheep
at their Special Sale.
Prime bullocks to 126p and £825.30 gross for a 655kg Limousin from D A Budge, Brae-edge, Castletown.
New Season Prime lambs to 109.7p for four 46kg Texels from J A Morris, Olrig Mains, Castletown and £62 gross for two 60kg Texels and a 60kg Suffolk all from Stainland & Sibmister Farms, Castletown.
Leading prices per head:-
Suffolk - £54.50 Brae-edge; £50.50 Olrig Mains.
Texel - £52.80 Myrelandhorn (McCarthy); £51 Oldfield Farm; £50.50 Stainland
& Sibmister Farms.
Charollais - £51.50 No10 Clayock.
Leading prices per kg:-
Texel - 109.3p Geise Farm; £108.3p Lochview, Inkstack; 107.2p Oldfield Farm.
Suffolk - 107.4p No3 Braal; 105.3p Nybster; 104.8p Brae-edge.
Feeding Ewes & Rams
Cheviot - £35 Quoybrae Farm; £33 Fairview, Halkirk; £32.50 Torbeg.
Charollais - £33 Quoybrae Farm (Douglas).
Suffolk - £32 Nybster.
Texel - £30 Carran.
Store Cattle - Bullocks to 118.8p for a 387kg Charolais and £600 gross for a
514kg Charolais both from P Blackwood, Braal, Halkirk.
Store Heifers to 110.2p and £430 gross for a 390kg Charolais from Braal.
Breeding Cattle - Dispersal Sale from Mackenzie Farming Ltd, Weydale Mains, Thurso sold to £1,200 for a Simmental Cow with Charolais Stot Calf; Cow with Twin Stot Calves £1,180; Cows with Stot Calves £1,000, £950 & £620; Cows with Hfr Calves £1,000, £920 & £900; Charolais Bull £2,800.
Part Dispersal from A Gunn & Son, Upper Dounreay, Thurso sold to £1,000 for an A A Cow with Charolais Stot Calf; Cows with Hfr Calves £920 & £820.
Others - Cow with Hfr Calf £900 & £800 twice Geise Farm - Cow with Stot Calf
£650 Newton Swiney - In Calf Cow £640 Hill of Clyth.
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