Carmarthen Dairy -28/04/2010

Dairy Cattle (67)

Probably the best show of heifers throughout at Carmarthen for many weeks was met with good demand and a matching trade. Cows sold to £1950 and heifers crossed the £2000 barrier on three occasions. Top price cow was Tanglwst Breakout Rhiannon 2 GP83. She was an 8 gallon/day second calver and the best of three entries from Mr. Lougher, Tytanglwst. Another Breakout daughter, Tanglwst Breakout Polly GP83 sold for £1820. An excellent show of heifers was kicked off in style by the first commercial heifer in the ring a really super heifer from Reynolds & Lawrence, Garndwyrain that sold for £2020. An entry of seven top quality heofers from Thomas & Co, Hafodwen also saw their best heifer selling for £2000 with an average of £1840. This was a trend throughout with over half the commercial heifers selling for £1800 and over and averaging £1700 in all. In the recorded section Clun Javelin Francess by Sandcrest Javelin 4 was top price at £2020. She was presented by Thomas and davies, Hendre Isaf. Other top prices in a catalogue averaging £1680 were Pengelli Specialist Sharri at £1920 and Supermoo Iris 32 at £1900. They were sold by Jones, Pengelli and Jones, The Elms, Oswestry.

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Calf Breed Report (309)

Average: Bull Calves £187 / Heifer Calves £172/ Friesian Bulls £48