Eight at 41kg sold for €128/head or €3.12/kg;
Eight at 52kg sold for €164/head or €3.15/kg;
24 at 50kg sold for €165/head or €3.30/kg;
Three at 43kg sold for €137/head or €3.18/kg;
Nine at 35kg sold for €120/head or €3.42/kg;
Three at 51kg sold for €171/head or €3.35/kg;
Nine at 47kg sold for €147/head or €3.12/kg;
16 at 51kg sold for €159/head or €3.11/kg.
Cull ewes
Next up after the hoggets were cull ewes. The heaviest ewe to come through the ring on Monday was 86kg and topped this section at €138/head. The heaviest of the ewes on the night (75kg plus) made from €120/head upwards. Store type ewes sold back to €50/head.
January 18, 2021 5:00 pm
Carnew’s David Quinn reported a record price of €163/head for a pen of 12 well-fleshed hoggets at the mart’s weekly sale on Thursday last (January 14).
A strong sale of 3,231 sheep – which was well up from the 1,892 sheep on offer the previous week – was met with a flying trade, with the record price being achieved by a pen of hoggets weighing 70kg.
This record price was closely followed by another pen of fleshed hoggets weighing 60kg that sold for €159/head.
Any fleshed hoggets weighing in excess of 48kg sold from €146/head upwards, while highs of €137-141/head were seen for lambs weighing 45-46kg.