Flying Herd Disperses to 3800gns at Sedgemoor Auction Centre’s

Winter Warmer Sale

Quality counted at the first sale of the year for Auctioneers Greenslade Taylor Hunt. With over 200 milking cows and heifers put through the ring plus youngstock drawing four volume buyers from Wales, the trade was more selective than the end of 2012 with buyers looking for breeding and strength.

The day included the dispersal of David and Jenny Haywood’s herd, which auctioneer Derek Biss commented, “was one of the best flying dairy herds to be sold through Sedgemoor Auction Centre.’’ This was supported by the fact that they produced the day’s top price of 3800gns for everyone’s pick the freshly calved 3rd calver ‘Stroudmead Aida 99th’ by ‘Shottle’. She had given 13,000kgs in her 2nd lactation and joins one of Somerset most respected herd being the ‘Courtway’ herd of Robert Puddy. 14 further cows and heifers from this herd exceeded £2000.

The day’s top priced heifer at 3000gns came from the much admired heifer of Ashlea Holsteins ‘Noremead Shottle Rapture 2nd’ she was out of no less than 12 generations of excellent dams. From the same vendor at 2500gns was ‘Willsbro Bogart Amanda 3rd’. The second top priced heifer was the Red Polled ‘Nethervale La Belle Red’ from Olympic Holsteins at 2800gns. Other collective heifers achieved 2400gns for the homebred ‘Keevil Shottle Countess’ from A & JE Fewings, 2300gns for Roland and Simon Buglers ‘Bettiscombe Knowledge Strawberry 89th’ with other Bettiscombe heifers sold for 2200gns, 2100gns x 2. Other vendors over 2000gns were PJ Andrews, LG Bagg, FH Chave & Son and DC Dennis & Son. The 2nd dispersal of the day was for RG Elliott who sold January calved cows to 1700gns.

Commercial incalf heifers from LS Pow & Son Ltd due in February by ‘Wa-Del Hayden’ out of a 11,000kgs dam sold to 1750gns. Bulling heifers from RG Elliott’s dispersal sold to 1040gns for daughters of ‘Burlane Tennyson’ and ‘Kirblythe Doliver’ and heifer calves from MJ & MD Day to 420gns for ‘Cloverfields Gratis Everlyse’.

Another large monthly entry saw no less than 60 successful different purchasers from Cornwall to Pembrokeshire generate the following excellent averages:

DT & JA Haywood Dispersal