Merinos and first-cross ewes were presented in excellent condition at the 71st Dunedoo Sheep Breeders Sale with 7000 head yarded and sold to values down of last year’s sale.
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Merino ewes kicked off the sale with the first pen selling for the top at $190.
These were for 138 Merino ewes of Langdene blood, 4½ and 5½ years, November shorn and mulesed bred and offered by Alison Kensit, Reb Bank Park, Dunedoo. Thewes were 147 per cent scanned in lamb to Border Leicester rams for a March lambing.
They were purchased by Ronald Bowman, Meruthera, Dunedoo, who bought similar ewes from the Kensit draft last year and gained $223 a head for those ewes’ lambs at the sale today.
Top-priced first-cross ewes at $242 a head, were a draft of 125 bred by Derek and Robyn Rhodes, Hillview, Dunedoo September/October 2017 drop, December shorn and in lamb to Poll Dorset rams to lamb in March.
They were purchased by Julie Hunter, Bloomfield, Mendooran, as replacements for her first-cross flock producing second-cross lambs for sucker and heavy lamb production.
Merino wethers sold to a top of $82.
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