Ram lambs selling to £620 at Armoy

Quality sheep were easy to sell but poorer quality were difficult to shift at the annual sale of Texel rams in Armoy.
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Top price for shearlings was paid to Jas Wilkinson, Cookstown at £880gns, ram lambs sold to £620 for Nigel Ross, Larne.

Leading prices

Shearlings

Jas Wilkinson, Cookstown, £880gns. J and M Watson, Belfast, £840gns, £440gns. Mary Clarke, Comber, £780, £680, £560. Sam McAuley, Bushmills, £720, £560. Murray Annett, Kilkeel, £680, £580. Robert McGill, Ballycastle, £780, £480. J and D Watson, Downpatrick, £560, £520. Carol Chestnutt, Bushmills, £700. Robert Mulligan, Banbridge, £760.

Ram lambs

Nigel Ross, Larne, £620, £600. Andrew Kennedy, Ballymena, £480, £420. Jas Adams, Glarryford, £600. Colin Gregg, Glarryford, £600. J and M Watson, Dundonald, £560, £380. Ivan Strawbridge, Coleraine, £580, £460, £420. Sam McAuley, Bushmills, £440, £400. Danny McKay, Martinstown, £400, £300. Jas Wilkinson, Cookstown, £460, £380. H and S Etherson, Ballymoney, £420. Robert Mulligan, Banbridge, £420, £400. Murray Annett, Kilkeel, £340.

Show and sale of pedigree Suffolk rams and ram lambs - On behalf of the North Antrim and East Londonderry Suffolk Breeders.

Every ram was sold in a 100% clearance at the annual Suffolk ram sale for North Antrim and East Londonderry ram sale. Top price was £1,220 paid to Packie Donnelly, Martinstown for a tremendous ram lamb. Shearlings sold to £920 paid to Bushmills producer, Brian McVicker and his stockman Kelvin McKendry.

Leading prices

P Donnelly, Martinstown, ram lambs, £1,220, £860, £740, £560. B McVicker, Bushmills, Shearlings, £920gns, £920gns, ram lambs, £850gns, £800gns, £700gns, £690gns. John McKay, Ballymoney, ram lambs, £780gns, £750gns, £640gns, £600gns, £580gns. Martin Butler, Rathkenny, ram lamb, £610gns. David McCaughan, Ballymoney, ram lambs, £600. Graham Thompson, Bushmills, ram lambs, £560.

Shearlings averaged, £755gns and ram lambs £531gns.

Auctioneers: Daniel McAlister and Son.

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