South East Marts – Hailsham Market

Livestock report for:
WEDNESDAY, 28thNOVEMBER 2007

PRIME CATTLE/OTM BEEF & CULL COWS
Prime cattle, culls and overage beef trading weekly through the collection centre and direct. - Eighty head of Beef and OTMs traded this week. Beef returns very firm - prime under twenty four months very keen.

BACK TO THE AUCTION RING -
This coming Wednesday, 5th December -
Show Day with Show Cattle and Commercial cattle -
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CALVES (26) Auctioneer: Roger Waters Sale commences 10.45 a.m
Plenty of variety - reared and two week old calves make up the entry - all sold. Reared Piemontese cross steers £160 and heifers £122, Angus cross heifers £114, Friesian Holstein bulls £68. Younger calves 14/20 days - Limousin cross bull £115, Angus cross bull £90 and Friesian Holstein bull £3.

SHEEP (1027) - Auctioneer: Roger Waters
LAMBS (520)Overall average 73.8p per kg.
Looking for that lift, not this week - trade stays in that mid seventy pence per kilo rut at Hailsham and elsewhere Leading prices per kg: PT Bower 81.2p, 79p, Mrs P Kemp 79.3p, 77p, LM Morgan 78.7p, 78.6p, 77.3p, FG Coles 78.6p, 76.9p, MW Littmoden 78.1p, RA Uridge 77.8p, FS Major & Sons 77.3p Leading prices per head: RA Uridge £40, £35.20, A Wood £38.50, LM Morgan £36.70, FG Coles £36.20, PT Bower £36, £35, FS Major & Sons £34.90.

EWES (97)
Good fleshed culling ewes in short supply, weighty Suffolk cross best of day at £36.50, plain ewes more difficult to place. B Claxton £36.70, B Bowers £30.20, Mrs MA Till £30, BJ Champion £29.

STORES (410)
Another good entry of store lambs with two special consignments - Lady Prideaux’s lean Texel crosses £24.70, £23, £23, etc. and Stephen Carr’s Suffolk x Mule £24, £24, £23, etc. Scant reward for the breeder but thats the trade. Others:- Mrs Ayres £29.50, £26, Mrs R Crowther £29.20, £24, HC Grissell £25, £24.70,
B Claxton £24.

PIGS (54) Auctioneer: Roger Waters
Pigs not affected by Blue Tongue but sad to say little interest in the Gloucester Old Spot x Large White stores on offer, all sold in the £10/£12 price range. Cull sows - all well fleshed £95, £85, £80, £70 twice.

166th HAILSHAM FATSTOCK SHOW
Entries include:-
58 PRIME CATTLE
5 OTM COWS
185 SHEEP
28 PIGS
to be held on
WEDNESDAY, 5th DECEMBER
Come Along & Support Your Local Show
Raffle & Weight Judging Competition

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ANNUAL DINNER & CUP PRESENTATION EVENING
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HERSTMONCEUX VILLAGE HALL
on
SATURDAY, 12th JANUARY 2008
Tickets:- £19.00
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