14,000gns record price for Islavale heifer calf Served Heifers average £7962 Maiden Heifers average £4318 Heifer Calves average £9975 There were a few early Christmas crackers at Borderway Mart, Carlisle on Friday 12th December as two heifers made 15,000gns, and with...
Report from Cara Moore, NI Simmental Cattle Breeders Club Simmental breeders from around Northern Ireland and Scotland flocked to Ballymena Livestock Market on Saturday 22nd November for the Annual Four Breed Calf Show with fellow Saler, British Blonde and British...
Delfur Supernova, Overall Champion Delfur Shakira Overall Reserve Champion Delfur Farms, Rothes, Aberlour, lit up a small but quality section of Simmentals to win both the Overall and Overall Reserve Championship at the 2025 Livescot event held on Friday 21st November...
Topping the male trade on the day at 3,800gns was GRANGEWOOD JUMBO 18, bred by Mr & Mrs AS & YA Leedham, Pickering. A GRANGEWOOD DAMASCUS 12 son, out of a GRETNA HOUSE SUPERSONIC’S daughter. Purchased by D Evans & Son, Anglesey
Second top price, selling for 3,150gns was BLACKFRIAR JACKPOT 18, bred by Greyhound Estates Ltd, Weedon Road, Northamptonshire. A NEWBIEMAINS ALBERT 09 EX 92 son, out of a CELTIC ROCK daughter.
Purchased by Henry Bigwood, Brean, Somerset. (Seabreeze)
Leading the Female trade at 2,050gns was DINTON VERITY 8, an in-calf heifer, bred by Miss S V Francis, Mere, Warminster. A SNEUMGAARD IMPERATOR (PP) son, out of a KEELDRUM CLIO 11 (P) daughter. Purchased by M/S M Johnson & B A Foster, Hanch, Staffordshire. (Hanch)
S R & J L Eales T/A W R Eales & Son, Leicester, secured the second top price female of the day, with their in-calf heifer PEATLING IDA, a son of STORERSMITH EINSTEIN 13, out of a CHYANHAL WELLINGTON daughter. Purchased by DANIEL & JODIE JONES, NR BUXTON, Derbyshire. (Jones)
Bulls averaged at £3648.75
Cows & calves averaged at £1330.87
In-calf heifers averaged at £1364.04
Maiden heifers averaged at £1283.10
