Breeding ewes make some recovery

Press, 9 March 1978, Page 22

Breeding ewes make some recovery

Two-tooth ewes and some of. the adult Romney ewes had a better sate at the Addington store stock market yesterday. Ings were smaller. Cist 3 toit € n ti v fell ■ iambs. 2600 iwu'toutb ewes and; Store cattle had a satisfactory stances. Steers Ln good, forward condition again diew the best Store lainb> Store lamb values opened on a firmer note, but they duly weakened again, particular!' on the ales and halfbreds again made up most of the offering, and while the main races included some quite well-grown lambs, there was also a large number of very plain and small lambs in hard; condition. Very few forward! Umbs were included, this no doubt being a reflection of the drought conditions. The sale opened with a number of pens fetching more than $B, and at this level the market appeared to be around 50c a head stronger. But with the offering of small pens, most of which contained the small lambs, the market lost a lot of strength. Selling was often hard and comlambs continued to attract useful 1 included this week, and while lion the > had the best of the •ale. <9 30. while small lambs -old at S 5 to $6, and tail-end lots down The main sale in a small of some halfbreds from the Marlborough coast at <9.20 Sales of store lambs intCulverdcm. 290 shorn Romneys at 57 to $8.80; Tima la farm Prices Valiev». 249 Romneys at 59.20, 135 Down-cross at $9.15; M. H Fitzgibbon (Cheviot), 100. Down-cross at $8.80; G B. F.| Neill (Clarence Bridge*. 45 half-, breds at $6.40 to $8.30; T. F. Burrows i.Motunauh 152 Corriedales at $5.40 to $8.50, 146 Down-cross at 55.20 to $8; Lands and Survey Department. Weka block iWestland), 53 Perendales at $5.50 to $7.70; James Deans (Homebush), 111 Romneys at $6.70 to $6.90; , Birch Hill station (Okuku), 425 Perendales at $6.40 to $7.90. Ewe lambs: G. B. F. Nell! (Clar-| ence Bridge), 226 halfbreds at I $9.10; Lands and Survey Dept/ Weka block (Westland), 111 Perendales at $3 to $7.60; James; Deans (Homebush*, 71 Romneysi at $6. Breeding ewes Some of the breeding ewes showed an improvement on last week’s rates. This was largely because of the reduced offering. two-tooth offering was only a

traction of last week s oversized i entry of more than 14,000 head.; i The sale opened with a pen of Romneys fetching $2O and while • quality was topical of an end-of i season sale, the medium, class of| I fix.e-uool ewe often fetched sl4' . or more. At this level the market I ; was anything up to $1.50 a head better. Small two-tooths continued to sell in the $8 to $ll range. This weeks adult ewe section; Included several line:- of annual, ; draft Romneys, and the market fox them showed an upward' movement of around a dollar a| head. Several pens reached on bettered $l3, and one pen Of onei year earb-shorn ewes reached - 511. : Corriedales and halfbreds did ■ not show a great deal of change. > Only the best of the entry • reached or bettered $ll. Aged t ewes in light condition continued ? to sell at any thing from $3.50 to $7. I; The very dry conditions were) reflected in many of the sheep,) > for some ewes — apart from thei useful annual lines — were ini very light condition. Sales of breeding ewes in-! , eluded:— Two-tooths: Robert Reid and [ Sons Ltd ’Darfield), 81 Corried-j : ales at $l6; J. N. Boag (Rother- : haxui. 91 Corriedales at $14.20, C. and M. Bonner (East Eyreton), 111 Corriedalcs at $13.40: R. G.! Palmer <Amberley>, 171 Corrie-| dales at 513.20: E. W. Turrell. ..i Kaituna), 61 Romneys at $2O/ 'Ngaio Downs CParakawa), 229 halfbreds at SI4 to S 17.80; Eva ( Price Partnership (Poranuih 86i Romneys at SI 5.80. Adult ewes: M. J. Barker «Kai-> koura), 119 annual draft Romneys jat $11.80; P. R. and A. B. Hay lock: Akaroa). 86 annua! draft Rom-i neys at si 1.60: J. D. M. Harviei «Te Piritah 245 four and five-; v ear-old Corriedales at S 10; E a Price Partnership (Poranuih 213' four and five-year-old Romneys: at $l3; K. J. and H. W. Dalglish: Le Bons Bay), 146 four and five-; ’ear-old Romneys at 513.60: D. J., Keetian Kaikourai. 169 five-year-: nld Romneys at $8.30 to $10.10;: Calvert 3n<l Burnett (Duvau-| chelle). 98 five-year-old Romneys at $12.50. Store cattle The store cattle market was largely unchanged. The yarding! comnrised about 450 adult and 20-mbnth-old cattle and 100 calves. The calves included an annual consignment from a Banks Peninsula vendor. Usually they received good inquiry. Although well-grown for age, they had a ■ slower sale. Compared with last I year, they were S4O down. The I best of the steers fetched 553, | and the heifers 332. Other hei- | fers ranged from 313 to 325. As | was clearly shown last week, the I calf season in present circumstances Is going to be very I difficult. ; There was not a great deal of life in the sale of the grown store cattle, but in the circumstances, it was satisfactory. Any steers approaching killable condition drew fair competition, but among the rest of the offering there were some passings. 1

I- Considering the feed situation! .it was a reasonably good, f 1 offering. Best 20-month-old steers, I sold to $llB, and there were a! ■,number of sales in the 385 to 5951 f| range. Small cattle sold down to 1 I 365 II Sales of store cattle in-; 1 eluded:— Blythe Downs .Cheviot), 28 20-! i month-old Hereford Steers at $B5; .- to $94, 10 Angus-cross at 389; E. i:L. Gibb (Scargllb, 7 20-month-old listeers at $BB to 396. t' Calves: E. A. Hutchinson; I ‘Little River;, 26 Hereford steers II at 344 to $53, 14 Hereford heifers i riat 332.