Hawes Individual Female Sale - 18 January 2025 | Swaledale Sheep Breeders Association | Sale Report

Aged Ewe

Placing	Exhibitor	Lot Number
1st	P Hallam	Lot 81
2nd	O Acton	Lot 66
3rd	O Acton	Lot 65

Gimmer Shearling

Placing	Exhibitor	Lot Number
1st	P Hallam	Lot 82
2nd	J & SJ Bland	Lot 74
3rd	O Acton	Lot 68

Gimmer Hogg

Placing	Exhibitor	Lot Number
1st	J & SJ Bland	Lot 77
2nd	L Bland	Lot 78

Swaledale Champions

Category	Exhibitor	Animal
SUPREME CHAMPION	P Hallam	Aged Ewe
RESERVE CHAMPION	P Hallam	Gimmer Shearling

A small, yet select sale at Hawes on Saturday of individual inlamb females and empty ewe hoggs, saw Paul and Sue Hallam and family, High Birkwith enjoy a successful day, taking the Champion rosette with their 1st prize ewe. Sired by Oakbank General and out of a ‘Patch’ bred ewe, she sold inlamb carrying twins to Oakbank Endeavour 2, for the day’s top price, £2,600, to John Tully, Burncroft, Eggleston.

The Reserve Champion, also came from the Hallam’s, with their 1st Prize Gimmer Shearling. A daughter of the Hallam’s homebred son off Oakbank Endeavour, with her mother being sired by the £92,000 Christine Clarkson’s Kisdon Lovely; she sold inlamb to a homebred son of Oakbank General for £2,500, again to John Tully.

Following on from the Champion’s, the 1st prize ewe hogg consigned by John Bland, Thwaite Bridge, sired by a Brian Thornborrow tup, sold for £1,000 to Shaun Tully.

Averages:

7 Ewes – £426

2 Gimmer Shearlings – £812

2 Gimmer Hoggs – £600

Auctioneers

Hawes Farmers Auction Mart

Photographer

Wayne Hutchinson