5th November 2016
DINGWALL, Dingwall & Highland Marts (November, 5th) sold one bull, 14 goats, 925 sheep and 496 lots of poultry, eggs and poultry equipment at their poultry, rare & traditional breeds of livestock sale.
Cattle (one) sold to £860 gross for a Belted Galloway bull from Burnbank, Isle of Canna.
Goats (14) sold to £100 gross twice for a Saneen goatling and a nanny kid from Burnside, Ballindalloch.
Sheep (925) sold to £1,000 gross for a Zwartble in lamb gimmer from Greystone Farm, Dunblane.
Poultry (496) sold to £170 gross for a pair of Fulvous Whislting Tree ducks from Stromolloch Farm, Strath Haven.
Sheep other leading prices:
Zwartbles in lamb gimmers: Greystone Farm, £1,000, £500.
Zwartbles in lamb ewes: Druid Temple, Inverness, £250.
Zwartbles ewe lambs: Buttery Brae, Keith, £250, Mains of Gollachy, Portgordon, £200 (twice), Speylea, Fochabers and Druid Temple and Butterfly Brae, £200.
Zwartbles rams: Carn Raineach, Applecross, £150.
Sheep: Lambs: Valais Blacknose - 6 Steinish, Stornoway, £500, £300; Dorset - Smallburn Farms, Duffus, £280; Blue Faced Leicester – Blackford (Baynes), Croy, £220; Blue Texel – Greystone Farm, £180; Herdwick – Broombank, Culloden, £130, £120; Jacob – Mulchaich, Conon Bridge, £110.
Ewes: Black Cheviot – Cuilaneilan, Achnasheen, £340; Kerryhill – Old Mill Croft, Beauly, £130; Herdwick – Bogallan, North Kessock, £110; Ryeland – Moss Croft, New Deer, £100; Border Leicester – Leodibest, Latheron, £100; Cotswold – The Red House, Fife, £100 (twice).
Rams: Valais Blacknose – 6 Steinish, £450; Herdwick – Spittalwood, Muir of Ord, £200; Jacob – Rowanlea, Fort Augustus, £180; Ryeland – West Croftroy, Newtonmore, £140.
Gimmers: Kerryhill – Greenlands Farm, Arabella, £240; Jacob – Mulchaich, £100; Herdwick – Acharn, Duror, £100 (twice).
Gimmers with lambs at foot: Dorset – Smallburn Farms, £300.
Ewes with lambs at foot: Herdwick – Leodibest, £90.
In–lamb ewes: Herdwick – Broombank, £120.
Goats: Togenberg female – Langwell Beag, Ardgay, £90.
Poultry other leading prices per section:
Large Fowl: Pair of Light Sussex, £120, 2 Buff Orpington Pullets, £90, Trio of Silver Laced Wyandotte Pullets, £80.
Ducks: Pair of Versicolor Teal, £110, Pair of Ruddy Shellducks, £95, Trio Saxony (twice) and a Pair of Chilean Widgeon, £70.
Call ducks: Pair White, £110, 1 Silver female, £75, pair White, £70.
Bantams: 2 Silkie Pullets, £115, Trio Black Mottled Pekin, £90, Trio Old English Game and 3 Gold Laced Wyandotte Pullets, £80.
Pheasants: Pair Golden, £25.
Quail: Japanese, £45, 5 Chinese Painted and Quintet Fawn/White, £40, 5 Chinese Painted, £35.
Geese: 2 Brecon Buff and Pair Toulouse, £40, Pair African, £32, Pair of Brecon Buff, £30.
Guinea Fowl: 4 and 4 Keets, £30, 4, £28, Pair and 4 White, £25.
Pea fowl: Peachicks, £65.
Turkey: Pair Crowlitzer, £65.
Equipment: Hen House & Run, £180, Small Hen House, £150, Chicken Hut & Run, £120.