Fat lambs sold to £152 for a pen of 26.5kgs lambs at Armoy Mart
Armoy Mart was packed to the rafters with sheep on Wednesday night with not an empty pen to spare.
Trade again was very sharp for all types of sheep.
Fat lambs sold to £152 for a pen of 26.5kgs lambs from Mr Robert Wylie, Bushmills.
Store lambs sold to £98.00 and fat ewes sold to £141.
Breeding ewes were a great trade selling to £190.
Breeding rams sold to £520gns for a two year old Texel.
Leading prices
Fat lambs
R Wylie, Bushmills, 26.5kgs £152. Brendan Hughes, Clough, 28kgs £120. WD Marshall, Clough, 26kgs £112. Martinstown farmer, 23kgs £114. F McCaughan, Bushmills, 24kgs £112. J and J McMullan, Armoy, 26kgs £111. Stephen French, Antrim, 26kgs Crossbreds £110. Kev Robinson, Glenarm, 25kgs £109. J Wray, Carnlough, 25kgs £109. C Martin, Dunloy, 24kgs £109. John Boyle, Armoy, 23kgs £108. Sam Johnston, Bushmills, 23kgs £108. Ter McBride, Ballycastle, 23kgs £108. M Maloney, Loughguile, 24kgs £108. J and S Fisher, Ballycastle, 24kgs £108. J E McCaughan, Armoy, 22kgs £107.
Store lambs
P McSparran, Cushendun, 16 Suffolk, £98.00, 10, £90.00. S Hill, Ballycastle, 44 Charollais, £92.00. Pat McGarry, Corkey, 12 Texel, £90.00. Derek Carey, Newtowncrommelin, 6 Crossbred, £89.50. Niall McKeague, Ballycastle, 19 Texel, £89.00. Charles McCormick, Armoy, 50 Texel, £88.00. John O’Kane, Ballymoney, 45 Suffolk, £87.50, 74, £86.50. John Kane, Cushendall, 22 Suffolk, £86.00. Paul Black, Ballycastle, 60 Texel, £86.00. W Robin, Glenariffe, 22 Crossbreds £84.00. D Todd, Ballycastle, 54 Texel, £83.50. P O’Kane, Carnlough, 45 Crossbreds £82.00.
Breeding sheep
J Laverty, Armoy, 9 Texel, Hogge, £190, 9, £186, 9, £178, 10, £175. A Gallagher, Armoy, 9 Swaledales, £152. Archie Linnegan, Bushmills, 6 Texel, £174. M Steele, Glenarm, 9 Mules, £146. E McFetridge, Armoy, 10, two year old Crossbreds £132. Joe McQuillan, Antrim, full mouth ewes, 7, £116, 6, £106, 10, £103.
Fat ewes
D Gillan, Pharis, Texel, £141. T McBride, Ballycastle, Texel, £140. T and N McCracken, Mosside, Texel, £134. SJ Currie, Mosside, Texel, £124. E O’Neill, Martinstown, Texel, £116. John Walsh, Newtowncrommelin, Texel, £116. Adam Montgomery, Dervock, Texel, £112. Dec McCloskey, Loughguile, Crossbreds £107.
Sale every Wednesday night at 7.00pm.
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Auctioneers: Armoy Livestock Mart Ltd.