PRICES eased slightly at Wycheproof yesterday, with first-cross ewes and lambs making up to $270.
Rain earlier in the week prevented some vendors from sending advertised stock, but other vendors attracted by the lure of good money at recent sales helped make up the numbers.
The yarding of more than 7300 sheep was dominated by older ewes, most with lambs or scanned-in-lamb.
Six pens of first-cross ewes made $152-$270, while seven pens of Merino ewes with lambs fetched $94-$190.
Joined Merino ewes sold for $116-$160, a single pen of unjoined Merino ewes made $180 and the 1815 Merino wethers sold for $75-$97.
An unnamed client of Elders Wycheproof paid the day's top price of $270 for a pen of 168 woolly June-July 2007-drop Border Leicester-Merino cross ewes with 186 five to six-month-old Poll Dorset lambs, from Michael Hughes, of Rawalak Partnership, at Pretty Pine.
Buyers came from Ballarat, Bendigo, Birchip, Euroa, Horsham, Inglewood, Naracoorte, Ouyen, Stawell and Wycheproof.
