Cattle & Sheep Sales

Forward for sale on Monday were 10 Prime, 10 Store & 8 OTM Cattle.
Prime Heifers sold to 254 p/kg for a Limousin scaling 565 kilos from D & G Tait, Campston, Toab realising £1435 purchased by Rendalls Buthcers.
OTHER PRIME HEIFERS
FEAVAL,BIRSAY 525 £1,328.25 253 LIMFEAVAL,BIRSAY 505 £1,242.30 246 LIMSOUTH SEATTER,SANDWICK 565 £1,412.50 250 CHARMELSETTER FARM,LONGHOPE 475 £1,040.25 219 SAL
Prime Steers topped at 250 p/kg for a Limousin scaling 540 kilos from D & G Tait, Campston, Toab realising £1350 purchased by E Flett.
OTHER PRIME STEERS
HUAN,SANDWICK 630 £1,549.80 246 CHARHUAN,SANDWICK 645 £1,560.90 242 CHARSOUTH SEATTER,SANDWICK 670 £1,594.60 238 CHAR
Store Steers averaged an impressive 247.9 p/kg and topped at 258.2 p/kg for a pen of 3 Simmentals scaling 426 kilos from R J & L J Gaudie, Netherskaill, Birsay realising £1100.
OTHER STORE STEERS PER KILO
NETHERSKAILL,BIRSAY 432 £1,060.00 245.4 SIMNETHERSKAILL,BIRSAY 428 £1,050.00 245.3 SIMNETHERSKAILL,BIRSAY 500 £1,200.00 240 SIMNETHERSKAILL,BIRSAY 430 £1,030.00 239.5 AA
Top price per head was £1200 for a Simmental scaling 500 kilos from Netherskaill, Birsay.
OTM Cattle were a mixed show but still averaged 146 p/kg and topped at 170.9 p/kg for a Charolais scaling 550 kilos from J L Brodie, Sunnybank, St Ola realising £940.
Top price per head was £1090 for an Angus scaling 735 kilos from J C Eunson, Corse, St Ola.
OTHER OTM COWS
LINGRO,ST OLA 550 £860.00 156.4 SIMSUNNYBANK,ST OLA 530 £790.00 149.1 CHARCORSE,ST OLA 735 £1,090.00 148.3 AACORSE,ST OLA 640 £890.00 139.1 SHCORSE,ST OLA 625 £850.00 136 AA
OTM BULLS
MILLBRAE,SANDAY 780 £1,010.00 129.5 SAL
Following the Cattle were 104 Sheep of all classes.
A small number of Breeding sheep were forward with Ewes with Lambs at foot averaging £89.21 per life and topping at £97 a life for a pen of Texel x Ewes with Texel x Lambs at Foot from J Moar, Rosebank, Deerness.
Prime Lambs followed the trend and were slightly cheaper again. Mostly smaller types forward and not enough heavy fleshed butcher types.
Prime Lambs averaged 251.5 p/kg (-6.5p)
SQQ Lambs averaged 229.46 p/kg
Lambs per head averaged £114.05 (- £12.15)
Prime Lambs topped at 293.5 p/kg for 3 Texels scaling 46 kilos from T Harvey, Hillcrest, Quoyloo realising £135 purchased by Williamsons.
OTHER LAMBS PER KILO
NETHER OUSENESS,WESTRAY 47.5 £128.00 269.5 TEXNETHER OUSENESS,WESTRAY 55 £140.00 254.5 TEXDAWN COTTAGE,HOLM 48 £125.00 260.4 TEXVOAN,STENNESS 43 £104.00 241.9 TEX
Top price per head was £140 for a Texel scaling 55 kilos from T & G Thomson, Nether Ouseness, Westray purchased by Craigies Butchers.
Store Lambs averaged £82 and topped at £84 for a pair of Texels from T & G Thomson, Nether Ouseness, Westray.
OTHER STORE LAMBS
VOAN,STENNESS £82.00 DUTCH
NETHER OUSENESS,WESTRAY £78.00 TEX
Cast Ewes were cheaper this week averaging £83.74. Cast Sheep topped at £136 for a Texel Ewe from W S Garson, Huan, Sandwick.
OTHER CAST SHEEP
HUAN,SANDWICK £132.00 TEX
HUAN,SANDWICK £108.00 CHAR
HUAN,SANDWICK £107.00 MULE
HUAN,SANDWICK £104.00 CHAR
EASTSIDE,TWATT £130.00 TEX
EASTSIDE,TWATT £120.00 TEX
ROSEBANK,DEERNESS £110.00 TEX
NETHER OUSENESS,WESTRAY £90.00 TEX
NETHER OUSENESS,WESTRAY £85.00 TEX
SUNNYBANK,WESTRAY £87.00 TEX
SUNNYBANK,WESTRAY £85.00 TEX
COTT,ROUSAY £87.00 LLYEN
COTT,ROUSAY £85.00 LLYEN
LOCHSIDE,WESTRAY £52.00 CHEV