Pendle flock gets champion and reserve at Skipton sale
26th December 2024
Mother and daughter Elaine and Issy Hartley, of the Pendle flock, Roughlee, Nelson, stood both champion and reserve with twin March 2024-born pedigree Blue Texel lambs.
The lambs were shown at CCM Skipton’s 5th annual Blue Diamonds show and sale of pedigree females.
The Hartleys have 30 pedigree ewes on the farm and the MV-accredited home-bred lambs that were shown this season were the first born from the show-winning Windrush Galvanise, out of Pendle Extraordinary Girl, herself previously shown as a ewe lamb and shearling.
They were tapped out by judge, Northern Area Texel Sheepbreeders’ chairman Mark Keighley, Leathley, Otley.
The supreme champion, Pendle Jessie, also took the top call in the ring at 650gns, while another Windrush Galvanise daughter out of a David Alexander Millside dam, Pendle Joules, made 600gns.
Both were snapped up by Kirklees purchaser AJ Bamforth, Slaithwaite.
The Hartleys’ second placed lamb and reserve overall champion, Pendle Josie, was knocked down to R & S A Rawsthorne, Cark-in-Cartmel, for 450gns.
Elsa McKechnie, Silver Birch flock, Wigglesworth, sold Silver Birch Judi Dench, a Silver Birch Hooley sired lamb from Pendle Diva for 500gns.
The sale also saw non-MV accredited aged and in-lamb Blue Texel females go through the ring, with two from Andrew Bailey’s, Winsbury Blue flock, Leyburn, reaching 600gns and 520gns.
SHOW RESULTS
Ewe lambs:
- 1st – Lot 52, A M & E Hartley
- 2nd – Lot 53, A M &E Hartley
- 3rd – Lot 55, E McKechnie.
Ewe lambs averaged £490 (2023 £267) and aged ewes £390 (£735).
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