It was blue all the way at Borderway Mart in Carlisle for the Bluefaced Leicester sale
DUBBED “Blue Monday” by the media, the sale at Carlisle lived up to its name when some cracking sheep came under the hammer, with a depleted ringside to normal years it was good to see plenty of buyers there, along with a healthy dose of bidding over the telephone and online pushing the prices along nicely, giving the sale a very healthy average, with the ewe hoggs burning the biggest hole in the buyers pockets, with the 40 offered averaging a very healthy £1860, up nearly £500 on the year Topping the days trade was a ewe hogg from Midlock. She was a long, clean type of sheep, with ...
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