Addington Market Difficult sale for breeding ewes

Press, 13 February 1986, Page 12

Addington Market Difficult sale for breeding ewes

A yarding of more than 12,000 breeding ewes, the biggest of the season, faced a discerning gallery of buyers at Addington market yesterday.

Because of the low export schedule for sheepmeat and the general lack of confidence in farming, buyers were very selective when choosing replacement ewes.

Even most well known lines of annual-draft ewes had a difficult sale and light, shorn sheep regularly made $5 to $6. Early-shorn ewes appeared to attract slightly more interest because of the value of their fleeces, but even these sheep suffered from the mediocre buying power. Most ewes were $7 to $lO a head cheaper than their counterparts last season. Well bred two-year ewes sold for about $l5 and good ewes made $8 to $ll, depending on wool.

A feature of the market was a line of 486 shorn four-year-old Corriedales from A. T. and A. W. Black, Waiau, which sold at $2l, only slightly less than last season's price.

Other well known lines of ewes were not quite so fortunate. Early-shorn annual draft Halfbreds from D. J. Parsons, Ward, made $lB, compared with $3O last season, and A. F. S. and W. H. Rutherford, Culverden, received $15.40 for annualdraft Corriedales, a reduction of $7.20 on last season’s value.

The bulk of the yarding comprised Corriedale or Halfbred ewes. Among sales of strong-woolled annual draft ewes were Coopworths at $ll.lO, Perendales at $11.20, and a line of capital stock, three-shear, shorn Romneys made $11.60.

In the store lamb section, a feature was a pen of well grown Corriedale ram lambs from R. G. Douglas, Scargill, which fetched $20.80. Most medium to good lambs sold between $ll and $13.40 and small lambs at $4 to $7.

The yardings were 12,300 adult sheep (3400 last week) and 6900 store lambs (8250). A special sale of two-tooth ewes will be held at Addington tomorrow. Sales included:

Adult sheep: D. J. Parsons (Ward), 331 annual-draft Halfbreds at $18; A. T. and A. W. Black (Waiau), 486 fouryear Corriedales at $2l, 162 at $10$), and 60 five-year at

$8.80; D. H. Grigg (Rotherham), 800 annual-draft Corriedales at $lO to $11.90; A. F. S. and W. H. Rutherford (Culverden), 938 annual-draft Corriedales at $11.20 to $15.40; N. D. Shipley (Harewood), 158 four-year and five-year Corriedales, at $9.30; Estate E. C. Trewin (Oaro), 290 annual-draft Corriedales at $8 to $11; P. J. Hoban (Culverden), 140 annual-draft Corriedales at $11.60; D. R. Shipley (Harewood), 323 annual-draft Corriedales at $8.40 to $11.10; Timpendean Farm, Ltd (Waikari), 118 sixyear Corriedales at $16.20; Troqueer Farm (Ward), 302 annual-draft Corriedales at $6.10 to $10.30; M. J. Dalmer (Waiau), 358 annual-draft Corriedales at $lO.lO to $13.20; N. A. Vowles and Son (Hanmer Springs), 600 fouryear Halfbreds at $6.40 to $10.60; D. Anderson (Waiau), 227 five-year Halfbreds at $5.80 to $9; R. A. F. Kingscote (Waiau), 324 annual-draft Coopworths at $8 to $11.10; P. H. Staplton-Smith (Camp Bay), 249 annual-draft Romneys at $4 to $8.80; Clifton Farming Group (Waiau), 377 annual-draft Corriedales at $6.10 to $7.70; S. J. and J. R. Spriggs (Waiau), 500 annualdraft Corriedales at $10.20 to $12.20; Estate J. S. Scott (Heathcote), 178 annual-draft

Corriedales at $7.20; A. C. Mowatt (Cheviot), 623 annual-draft Corriedales at $7.10 to $12.20; Cons Hill Partnership (Hurunui), 211 annual-draft Halfbreds at $9; A. G. Harper and Son (Te Oka), 500 annual-draft Perendales at $9.60 to $11.20; Glentara Farm (Greta Valley), 578 mixed-age Romneys at $9.40 to $11.60.

Lambs: E. A. Hutchison (Little River), 189 wethers at $11.50 to $12.80; J. I. Morton (Kaikoura), 326 Romney wethers at $5.40 to $12.90; Randolph Downs (Amberley), 199 mixed-sex Corriedales at $4.40 to $5.30; S. G. Bell (Kaikoura), 481 mixed-sex at $8.20 to $12.10; E. Henderson (Cheviot), 477 cryptorchids at $6.30 to $13.40; R. G. Douglas (Scargill), 108 Corriedale rams at $16.80 to $20.80; M. J. Dalmer (Waiau), 703 shorn Corriedale rams at $10.50 to $13.40; M. Craw (Port Levy), 214 mixed-sex Suffolks at $8.70 to $l3; P. J. Stewart (Waiau), 257 shorn Bordercross at $6.50 to $9.50; E. H. Lunn (Hanmer Springs), 481 mixed-sex Halfbreds at $9.60 to $12.60; R. Lilley (Oxford), 469 black-faced and Romneycross at $6.60 to $11.60; Leadervale Farm (Parnassus), 452 mixed-six Corriedales at $6 to $lO.