Dingwall & Highland Marts - Sale 27 February 2008

27th February 2008

DINGWALL, Dingwall & Highland Marts Ltd., (February 27th) sold 2,313
sheep of all classes.

Store lambs (1,535) sold to £52 for Texel crosses from Cypress Cottage,
Achterneed, and for Cheviots from No. 220 Birichen, Dornoch.
Breeding sheep (311) sold to £76 for Suffolk cross gimmers and Texel
cross ewes scanned with twins both from a dispersal off Penick Farm,
Auldearn.

Feeding sheep (467) sold to £58 for Suffolks from whitebog, Rosemarkie.
"All classes of store lambs, prime and feeding ewes and rams, in lamb
ewes met a more selective enquiry"

Leading prices per head
Store lambs: TexX - No, 20 Ruisaurie, Beauly, £50; Chev - Humpton,
Spinningdale, £50; SuffX - No. 20 Ruisaurie, £48.50; Cross - Rhannich
Farm, Edderton, £48; Suff - No. 3 Eyenort, Carbost, £47.50; BF - No. 6
Woodside of Culloden, Inverness, £43; Mule - No. 6 Woodside of Culloden,
£38.50.

Feeding ewes: Mule - Druid Temple, £53; Chev - Lochdhu, Nairn, £49;
SuffX - Inchindown, £48; BFL - Whitebog, £47; Char - Whitebog, £44.50;
Cross - Cadbollmount, fearn, £38; BF - No. 6 Woodside of Culloden,
£32.50.

Feeding rams: Suff - Tulloch Farm, Dingwall, £56; Chev - No. 3 Lower
Pitkerrie, Fearn, £55.50; BF - Humpton, Spinningdale, £33.
Dispersal off Penick Farm: Gimmers in lamb: TexX - £74; SuffX - £65.
Ewes in lamb: TexX - £72; SuffX - £63; BDM - £53.