THE combined Allendale and Days Whiteface sheep sale at Bordertown last Friday produced another magnificent result for the Day families with 430 stud sheep going under the hammer in just five hours of selling.
Compared to last year, the clearance rate was up 3 per cent to 90pc, top price up $3750, average up $41 and the sale gross of $403,800 up $22,050.
Lachy and Lou Day and family, Days Whiteface and host venue, offered 207 White Suffolks and Maternal Composites, while Alastair and Jayne Day and family, Allendale, offered 230 Poll Dorsets and Suffolks.
The 15 Suffolk stud rams opened with Allendale 1341, which was champion at this year's Royal Adelaide and Melbourne Royal shows. Sired by Allendale 588/10, the supreme interbreed champion at Adelaide in 2011, this ram was bought by Elders area manager for Lower Eyre Peninsula Paul Kilby for the Bascombe family, White Flat Suffolk stud, Port Lincoln, at $8750. This was the top individual lot price for the whole sale.
Fifty-two Suffolk flock rams were offered and sold to $1600, averaging $1092, up $246 on last year.
The highlight from the large Days White Suffolk offering was the clearance rate, with 176 of 177 White Suffolk rams and ewes sold.
Kirsty Harvey, Paxton stud, Bordertown, purchased the top White Suffolk Days 130078 for $4000 and later added another for $2000.
The Allendale Poll Dorset offering was full of quality, as highlighted by the stud's recent successes at the Royal Adelaide Show where they showed the supreme interbreed ram of the show.
That RAS junior champion ram, Allendale 130268, made the top Poll Dorset price at $6000, selling to Bruce Willison, Kreeside stud, Mount Pleasant.
* Full report in Stock Journal, October 9, 2014 issue.