UA Stirling Ram Lamb Sale

Stirling Ram Lambs

Averages:

114 to average £936 (-£19 for three more sold).

A MORE commercial show of Blackface ram lambs saw averages slip £19 on the year with top prices of £6000 paid on two occasions and three more sold compared to the 2023 event, which saw two five-figure sales.

First to make that money was the pen leader from Eoin and Kirstyn Blackwood, Dalblair, Muirkirk, purchased by J Graham and Son, Kirkton, Pentland. He is sired by last year’s £22,000 Dyke lamb bought at Lanark in partnership with Nunnerie and Upper Wellwood, and out of a ewe by £6000 Dyke.

Another Dalblair lamb by the same sire but out of a ewe by a £52,000 Crossflatt made £3000 to Robert and Mairi Paterson, Dunruchan, Muthill, Crieff.

Later, Richard Carruthers’ Merkland consignment from Thornhill, Dumfriesshire, received the same money for a lamb by a Rock-bred son of an £18,000 Dalchirla. He is out of a ewe by an £160,000 Elmscleugh that has already bred an £11,000 ram lamb purchased by Greenside.

The Stirling lamb sold jointly to Willie Stevenson, Balrazzie, Ballantrae, and Richard Nixon, Marbrack, Carsphairn.

Second-top price was £4800 paid for the pen leader from the Wights’ Midlock pen, Crawford, Abington, which headed home with Duncan MacGregor, Burnhead, Kilsyth. A son of the Emperor – a home-bred ram retained for breeding by a £30,000 Crossflatt – the lamb is out of a ewe by an £8000 Dyke.

Their No 2, by the same sire but out of a ewe by a £200,000 Dalchirla, made £3000 to David Morrison, Dalwyne, Barr and Alan Frame, Dullator, Amulree, Dunkeld.

Alister and Alan Mclarty, who manage the Firm of Shawhead based at Douglas, Lanarkshire, took £4200 for their pen leader from Dan McLaughlan, Castles Farm, Dalmally. For his money he got a son of a £2200 Cromlix bought at Dalmally, out of a ewe by a West Letham sire.

Matching that price, brothers Lewis and Ryan Smith, Towiemore, Keith, sold a son of last year’s £35,000 Orchilmore lamb, out of a ewe by an £18,000 Auldhouseburn, to Willie Dunlop and sons Quintin and William, Elmscleugh, Innerwick, Dunbar.

On the other side of the equation, Elmscleugh sold to £4000 for a son of a £4000 Nunnerie. He is out of a ewe by a £60,000 Dyke and was knocked down to Jimmy and Graeme Sinclair, Crookston, Heriot.

Top price for David Morrison, Dalwyne, was £3000 paid for a lamb by a £15,000 Auldhouseburn, out of a ewe by a £22,000 Dalchirla. The buyers were Alastair and David MacArthur, Nunnerie, Elvanfoot.

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Auctioneers: United Auctions