PASTORAL sheep were a feature at the sheep store market sale at Jamestown this week.
Jumbuck Pastoral bought in close to 5000 of the approximately 17,500 wethers, ewes and lambs yarded, from their properties at Bulgunnia and Mulgathing.
Willipa Pastoral contributed about 1500 head to the sale.
Elders Jamestown’s livestock manager Jack Coleman said all up it was a “good solid sale”.
He said the lines of sheep available worked for many of those buying.
Another major facet of the sale was the popularity of joined and scanned-in-lamb ewes.
“It’s a sign of things to come with mated ewes,” he said.
This popularity was evident as Davey Trading, sold 181 F1 Dohne ewes, June/July 2011-13-drop, Hamilton Run-blood for $125.
The ewes had been running with a White Suffolk ram in the lead up to the sale.
A pen of 136 April/May 2009-drop bare shorn ewes from TR,LP&RJ Ellis, Jamestown, sold for $118.
The ewes, with Bradfield bloodlines, had been running with a White Suffolk ram and were scanned in lamb.
Younger ewes were also popular with bidding reaching $121 for 101 April/May 2013-drop, Mulloorie-blood, from Mungbinna Pastoral Company.
In the wethers Willipa Pastoral P/L, Hawker, sold 190 May-June 2012-drop, North Cowie-blood for $96.
ME Kitschke & Sons, Jamestown, sold 415 May/June wether lambs, Greenfield-blood, for $93.
Walmona Pastoral, Truro, sold half their pen of 614 August/September wether lambs, Rices Creek-blood for $93, while the remainder of that pen made $92.
A pen of 113 cross-bred White Suffolk and Suffolk woolly lambs, September/October-drop from Tuilkilkey Enterprises, Terowie sold for $107.
A further 105 from the same vendor made $95.
Mudabie P/L sold 88 cross-bred January-shorn August/September lambs for $102.