Blue Faced Leicester females leads hit £4,000 at Lewes

Averages were up by £360 on the year and trade topped at £4,000.

Leading the way was a gimmer hogg out of the best ewe in the Smearsett flock of W.A. and A. Booth, Austwick, Lancaster.

Judged champion by Dennis Lumley, this gimmer is an embryo daughter of the £11,500 Hundith tup out of a M1 Star Green ewe.

The buyer was Robert Wallace, Girvan, Ayrshire. At £2,800 Messrs Lord, Kirkby Stephen, sold a gimmer hogg from their Hewgill flock to Garry Shields, Ravenstonedale, Kirkby Stephen.

Full sister

This gimmer is by Z14 Hewgill and out of the full sister to the Z40 Hewgill tup.

The Z14 Hewgill was also behind the breeding of the Lord’s second prize hogg, which sold for £1,400 to Colin Lowis.

This one was out of a K1 Lunesdale ewe.

They also sold a shearling by V45 Hewgill out of a R1 Lunedale ewe for £1,600.

Neil Marston from the Highberries flock, Scaleby, Carlisle, topped the ewe trade with a gimmer shearling by the X1 Snab Green and carrying twins to Z4 Hundith. This gimmer hogg, which goes back to a Bull and Cave ewe, was bought by G. Jackson and Son, Anchor Farm for £2,500.

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