SHARING OPTIONS:
This shearling ewe from the Maskview flock, due on 20 March, was scanned in lamb with twins and sold for €2,150.
The South of Ireland Bluefaced Leicester club held its annual sale of in-lamb ewes and ewe lambs at the Midland and Western Livestock Improvement Society’s showgrounds in Carrick-on-Shannon on 28 December.
This shearling ewe from the Quigabar flock was scanned in lamb with one lamb and sold for €680.
The sale has grown in popularity over the last number of years and this year had 47 in-lamb ewes and 53 ewe lambs catalogued for sale.
The sale included the dispersal of the Aughavoy flock of David Lyttle, Rosefield, Pettigo, Co Donegal.