Badger Face Texels top at £6,700 in online sale of pedigree sheep from the Woodies flock

Beltex sold to £3,000 and Blue Texels to £1,900 in the sale from Stuart Wood's Woodies flock, Skene

Angela Calvert
Head of Livestock, Shows and Sales
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Woodies Ear Wig which sold for £6,700
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Woodies Ear Wig which sold for £6,700

Badger Face Texels topped the online sale of pedigree sheep from Stuart Wood's Woodies flock, Skene, when selling to £6,700 for Woodies Earwig, a shearling gimmer by an imported sire. It sold carrying a single to Woodies All Muscle to Messrs Roberts, Shrewsbury.

Next at £2,700 was its dam, a Duhonw bred ewe by Sunnybank Attack out of Whatmore Beeswax and in-lamb with twins to Ardstewart Fireball, which had been bought as a ewe lamb from the Duhonw flock for a breed record of 11,000gns. The buyer was Messrs Morrison, Girvan.

Beltex

Beltex sold to £3,000 for Woodies Jet Lag, a shearling gimmer by Borderes Finders Keepers out of Woodies Groovy Chicken, in-lamb with twins to Mellor Vale King Kong, which went to Boden and Davies, Stockport.

Woodies Jet Lag which sold for £3,000

 Woodies Jessy Peeps, a shearling gimmer by the same sire and out of Buckles Babybel carrying twins to Woodies Kick Boxer made £2,000 to Messrs Murray, Canobie.

Blue Texels

A Sams bred ewe by Sams Donatello carrying twins to Saltire Blue Ferocious led the Blue Texels at £1,900. It sold to Messrs Millar, Lockerbie, who also paid £1,700 for Saltire Blue Faith, a ewe by Caryl's Blue Captain, carrying twins to Matt's Quarry View Hank.

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Dutch Texels

Dutch Texels topped at 900gns for a ewe by Thacka Cruuff, in-lamb with a single to Woodies Dark Destroyer, which went to Messrs McDowell, Leicester.

Averages: Badger Face Texels – 10 ewes, £1,115; 3 shearling gimmers, £3,400; 9 implanted pregnancies, £728; 9 ewe hoggs, £1,361; Beltex – 6 ewes, £1,125; 6 shearling gimmers, £1,525; 7 implanted pregnancies, £1,071; 7 ewe hoggs, £891; Blue Texels – 5 ewes, £1,225; 5 shearling gimmers, £700; 2 implanted pregnancies, £1,300; 7 ewe hoggs, £769; MV-accredited recipient ewe hoggs £240/head; Dutch Texels – 5 ewes, £710; 2 implants, £775; 1 unregistered, £750; 6 ewe hoggs, £558.

Auctioneers: Harrison and Hetherington.

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