80 Freshly Calved Cows and Heifers average £2055 at SAC Christmas Cracker
Auctioneers Greenslade Taylor Hunt report a cracking trade at the annual Christmas Cracker at Sedgemoor Auction Centre on Tuesday 10th December 2013.
An abundance of fresh milk drew 43 successful purchasers from across the South West and Wales. It was judge Robert Symms second prize winning heifer that topped the day at 2800gns for AJ Bennett & Sons ‘Lilylane Evolve Orchid 59th’ a November calved heifer that had descended from the ‘Wiseburrow Orchid’ show cow, she joins J Tamplin & Son.
At 2650gns was the day’s Champion and first prize winning cow from FG Summerhayes & Son ‘Otter Loader Malmsey’ that had calved to her second in November and was out of a ‘Hartlandview’ dam. At 2550gns was ‘Bettiscombe Bolivia Sweet’ the second calver from 9 generations of VG or Ex dams from regular consigners Roland and Simon Bugler. ‘Rookhaye Final Cut Mary’ the VG85 second calver from Rookhaye Estate sold for 2520gns. The second top priced heifer at 2500gns was ‘Treetop Shot Al Flora’ from Geoff Morgan. Other leading prices were 2400gns for ‘Curscombe Toystory Ladybird 48th GP84’ from CRJ & JA Bishop, 2350gns for ‘Saddlers Starlight 56th’ from AG Lambert & Partners and 2300gns for ‘Dinnaton Milton Altaross Beatrice’ from DC Dennis & Son.
AG Lambert & Partners consigned 7 Heifers that had calved in September and were reserved to average an impressive £2175.
First time consigners B & J Daw from Hertfordshire presented 6 Jersey Heifers which created considerable interest selling to £1512 for ‘Tetfor Max Magda’ who was freshly calved in November.
Incalf heifers sold to 1900gns for ‘Hinton Million Bianca 2nd’ due December to the Holstein bull ‘Wiltor Galaxy’ for RD Horton & Son.
The bulls forward sold to 1700gns for ‘Crystal Golden Phantom’ from Miss C Elmes and bulling heifers to 980gns for ‘Orchardfarm Cracker Cherry’ for Mrs A Redman.
A fitting end to the year’s monthly sales at Sedgemoor Auction Centre generated the following excellent averages:
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18
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Freshly Calved Cows
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£2093.00
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60
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Freshly Calved Heifers
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£2043.30
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5
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Freshly Calved Jersey Heifers
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£1188.60
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1
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Incalf Jersey Heifer
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£ 861.00
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6
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Holstein Bulls
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£1324.75
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1
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Aberdeen Angus Bull
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£1785.00
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8
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Holstein Incalf Heifers
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£1615.69
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5
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Brown Swiss X Incalf Heifers
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£1556.10
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36
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Served Heifers
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£1109.21
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10
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Served Organic Heifers
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£1306.20
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4
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Yearling Heifers
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£ 693.00
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163
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Head of cattle
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£1647.98
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