Upcoming livestock auction sales

We conduct regular livestock auctions at Hailsham Market on

Mondays and Wednesdays.

EVERY WEDNESDAY

We sell prime cattle, sheep, pigs,

cull cows and overage beef, calves

cull and breeding ewes, store lambs and store pigs.

Selling times:-

11.00 am  -  Calves

11:30 am  -  Sheep

12.00 pm  -  Pigs

12:30 pm  -  Cattle

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Next

Wednesday, 27th March

4 Oxford Sandy and Black gilts, 90 kilos +

and 3 white gilts entered.

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Next Sale of

STORE CATTLE

to be held on

MONDAY, 1st APRIL

Entries already include:-

Beef Herd Dispersal of

19 Sussex cross in-calf cows, inc. two heifers

running with Sussex bull, mostly 1st/5th calvers also 40 Limousin and

Simmental cross steers and heifers, 12/20 mos from EJ Brickell, 18 Aberdeen

Angus cross steers and heifers, 16/17 mos from CW Farms

Please let us know what you have

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Looking ahead to our

Special Spring Sales of STORE CATTLE at Hailsham

THE CUCKOO FAIR

is on

MONDAY, 8th APRIL

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STORE CATTLE

is on

MONDAY, 15th APRIL

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MONDAY, 22nd APRIL - NO SALE

EASTER MONDAY

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SPRING SHOW & SALE OF STORE CATTLE

is on

MONDAY, 29th APRIL

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SPRING SHOWTIME AT HAILSHAM

EASTER SHOW & SALE of

PRIME CATTLE & MILK LAMBS

on

WEDNESDAY, 10th APRIL

Prizes awarded for:-

Class 1 - Best Pen of 3 Milk lambs (up to 32 kilos l/w)

Class 2 - Best Pen of 3 Milk lambs (32.1 kilos & over l/w)

1st Prize - £15, 2nd Prize - £10, 3rd Prize - £5

Kindly Sponsored by DSC Supplies (Hailsham)

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CHAMPION PEN OF LAMBS £25

& SILVER CHALLENGE CUP

Kindly Sponsored by ACT Ltd.

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 £25 for the BEST PEN OF HOGGETS (min of 5, any weight)

Kindly Sponsored by Forge Meats (Southborough)

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Special Prize of £50 for the BEST BUTCHERS BEAST

Kindly sponsored by

Matthew Miller (farmbankmanager.co.uk)

The John Jones (‘JJ’) Memorial Trophy

to be presented to the Best Butchers Beast

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and £25 for RESERVE BUTCHERS BEAST

Kindly sponsored by

SK Hutchings (Butcher) Partridge Green

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plus a few 'Judges Specials of £10 ' at his discretion

Kindly sponsored by Barclays Bank

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£25 for the BEST COW

Kindly Sponsored by Mark Antrobus of Mole Valley Farmers

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All stock entered on the day will be eligible for the show

Prize money offered will only be presented for stock bona-fide sold. 

Please let us know what you have.

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WANTED

SECURITY/GATE MAN

To assist at all our outside sales, the post would be to assist in the running of the sale,

overseeing car parking and checking purchasers lots on leaving the sale ground.

Please contact Sally Rogers 01323 844874 for further details

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IMPORTANT NEWS FOR SHEEP KEEPERS IN ENGLAND

2015 - CHANGES TO ID & RECORDING Identification of lambs:- • Slaughter lambs tagged from 1st January 2015 must be identified with an EID tag, this can be:- • A single yellow EID slaughter tag, or • Full EID - one yellow EID tag and a matching non EID tag **This change does not apply to lambs already tagged in 2014** Recording movements of older sheep - tagged before 2010 • From 1st January 2015 their individual animal numbers must be entered on movement documents This does not apply if they are moving:- - to slaughter - within your business to a holding where you are their keeper - to a CPRC - if they are already electronically tagged •  These animals can still be batch recorded in your holding register • We recommend you re-tag these animals with EID tags if you do not intend to move them direct to slaughter ~~~~~~~~~~~~ For those selling cull ewes under the hammer - keep all your options open by EID tagging your sheep, i.e. one yellow EID tag and one matching non EID tag. Ewes not EID tagged can only be sold for slaughter Trading Standards have also noticed that a few people are tagging their sheep in the pens on market day, all sheep should be tagged on the holding before travelling to market ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ TB RULES: From 1st January 2013 all cattle holdings in East Sussex will become twelve month TB testing holdings and, therefore, their movement between holdings will be subject to TB pre-movement testing.

Hailsham Market - Wednesday:

South East Marts are pleased to announce that Hailsham Market on Wednesdays will now be able

to accept cattle, i.e. cull cows, finished cattle, etc. fro East Sussex without TB pre-movement

testing in their exempt market section.

Cattle sold through the exempt market section will need to be moved from the market direct to a slaughterhouse, direct to an approved or exempt finishing unit or can be returned to the farm if unsold, i.e. the premises of origin. Only cattle from TB unrestricted herds in East Sussex will be acceptable.  It is a requirement of the AHVLA that cattle are physically separated from other cattle and sold at the end of the sale to restricted destinations as listed before. N.B.  There appears to be some confusion over TB movement time periods: Cattle ‘moving off’ of TB free herds that are required to test annually and subject to TB pre-movement testing still have 60 days to be ‘moved off’ from the start date of the test. Please note that the sixty day period runs from the start date of the test and not four days later when the cattle are pronounced clear.  The six day rule remains unchanged. All other livestock marketing operations on a Wednesday continue as normal. South East Marts Privacy Policy