QUOYBRAE, Aberdeen & Northern Marts - Sale 5 November 2007
6th November 2007
QUOYBRAE, Aberdeen & Northern Marts (5th November) sold 3,287 Prime, Store &
Breeding Sheep.
Prime Lambs (299) sold to 76.4p a kg for 71 42.1kg Suffolks and £32.50 gross
for 11 43.1kg
Texels all from B Brims & Sons, Brabsterdorran Mains, Bower.
Ewe Lambs (384) averaged £28.50 and sold to £50 for Cheviots from W G
Kirkpatrick & Sons, Tandou, Kirbister, Orkney.
Wedder Lambs (762) averaged £23.66 and sold to £31 for Cheviots from J & M
MacDonald, Tormore, Dunbeath.
Cross Lambs (919) averaged £25.21 and sold to £32 for Texels from C & I
Angus, Oldfield Farm, Thurso.
Gimmers (59) averaged £38 and sold to £57 for Texels from Ross Bros,
Strichen Mains, Strichen.
Ewes (131) sold to £34 for Suffolk WM from B M Henderson, Burnside,
Dunbeath.
Rams (33) sold to £350 for a Texel Shearling from W Bain, Kennachy, Forss,
Thurso.
Leading prices per head & per kg
Prime Lambs: Suff - £32.20 Quoybrae Farm, 74.1p No 3 Braal; Tex - £32 3
Braal, Swiney Hill & Quoybrae Farm, 76p No 3 Braal & Quoybrae Farm.
Leading prices
Ewe Lambs: Half-Bred - £39 Buckies Farm.
Tex - £34.50 Oldfield Farm.
Chev - £28 Calder Mains, Hecken & Nybster.
Wedder Lambs: Half-Bred - £28.80 Thirdpart; £28 Ackergill Mains; £26.80
Tofts of Tain.
Chev - £29.20 Tormore; £28.80 Oldfield Farm; £28 Swiney Hill.
Cross Lambs: Tex - £31.50 Ackergill Mains; £30 Lower Gills; £28.80 West
Watten (Thomson).
Suff - £31 Thirdpart; £29.20 West Watten; £27.80 Sibster Burn.
BFL - £28 Oldfield Farm.
Shearling Rams: Tex - £180 Kennachy; £140 Stainland & Sibmister Farms; £100
Haymount, Finstown.
Suff - £120 St John's Wells; £100 No 10 Clayock.
Ram Lambs: Suff - £100 St John's Wells.
Feeding Ewes & Rams (700): Tex - £45 Brabsterdorran Mains; £33 Lower
Himster; £29.50 Broynach.
Chev - £37 Kennachy; £26.50 Milton Farm, Halkirk; £26 No 41 Oldhall.
Suff - £28.50 The Crofts, North Watten.
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