Yass-based agency Butt Livestock and Property amassed 18,000 winter-drop cross-bred lambs, all drafted into weight-range groups for buyer appeal during their sixth-annual circuit sheep sale last week.
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A feature of this annual spring sale is the large number of sheep offered by individual vendors.
Top price at $136 was paid for the pen of 229 second-cross Poll Dorset lambs sired by Rowallan-bred rams and weighing 35kg when offered by George and Libby Elliot, Balgalal, Binalong.
They yarded 1905 lambs and saw their pen of first-cross wether lambs weighing 33.8kg sold for $86.
Frank Kaveney, Tallawong, Yass offered 2350 Poll Dorset/Merino lambs and received $126 for his pen of 370 lambs weighing 38.5kg.
Sired by Springwaters- and Hillden-bred Poll Dorset rams fro Tallawong-bred Merino ewes, they happened to be the first pen offered, and thus set a high benchmark for the entire day.
The Shannon family, Talmo, Bookham, penned 2800 White Suffolk/Merino lambs, sired by Glenfinnan-bred sires and saw their top pen of 547 lambs weighing 37.6kg sold for $122.50.
Angus Graham. Mylora Pastoral Co, Binalong offered 3400 Poll Dorset/Merino lambs, Barwon-blood and received $122 for his top pen while he further sold a big run of 1232 lambs weighing 34.5kg for $109.
Frances Elsegood, Bogo, Bookham sold 334 White Suffolk/Merino lambs weighing 37kg for $114, while David Hazell, Kia-Ora”, Bookham penned 1450 Poll Dorset/Merino lambs and received $115.50 for the pen of 162 weighing 38.5kg.
Richard and Steph Hyles, Westbourne, Jugiong yarded 700 White Suffolk/Merino cross lambs and sold their top pen of 250 weighing 36kg for $115.
Successful buyers attended from Forbes, Albury, Yass, Jugiong, Cootamundra, Grenfell, Young, Wagga Wagga, Corowa and Yarrawonga, Victoria.
Butt Livestock and Property director Phil Butt took all the bids throughout the day.
There is no doubt the season has been much tougher and the vendors have done really well to present the livestock as good as they have been
- Phil Butt
Quality store lambs at Yass sold to $136
Butt Livestock and Property, Yass director Phil Butt expressed delight at the response from regular clients to the 18,500 store lambs his company offered for sale during the sixth-annual circuit sale.
The sale is now established as a regular event on the store sheep calendar.
“There is no doubt the season has been much tougher and the vendors have done really well to present the livestock as good as they have been,” Mr Butt said.
“The lambs are still very fresh, with only a few lacking a bit of bloom.”
Mr Butt noted a much smaller crowd of buyers compared with last year, and that is understandable he said given the dry season across much of the state.
“The support we had this year was genuine,” he said.
