YOUNG, big framed first cross ewes scanned-in-lamb to terminal sires ticked all the boxes, topping at $228.50 at Corowa today.
But the market did have its flat spots with both young and older joined Merino ewes passed in as they failed to reach $100.
Corowa Associated Agents yarded 3500 crossbred and Merino sheep for the winter special store sale.Buyers attended from Ganmain, Wagga Wagga, Albury-Wodonga, Benalla and the Corowa district.
Russell Mathews, of Rand, topped the sale with his pen of 219 Border Leicester-Merino cross ewes, June-July 2009 drop and November shorn.
Out of Pooginook blood dams and sired by Glenleith Border Leicester rams, the ewes were 100 per cent scanned-in-lamb to Poll Dorset and White Suffolk rams.
Peter Carroll, of Ganmain, paid $228.50 for the pen as replacements for broken mouthed first cross ewes.Autumn 2009 drop, spring-shorn crossbred ewes joined to Border Leicester rams sold for $160.
A small selection of one-and-a-half-year-old scanned-in-lamb crossbred ewes made $136. Unjoined crossbred ewes, aged two to four years and June shorn, topped at $132 and sold down to $110.
Demand was steady for unjoined first cross ewe lambs at $140-$145.Among the Merino pens, spring shorn one-and-a-half-year-olds scanned-in-lamb to Dorper rams topped at $110.
Four to five-year-old Merino ewes with autumn drop lambs and June shorn topped at $160.Older scanned-in-lamb Merino ewes, May shorn, sold for $100.One draft of woolly crossbred store lambs, March-April drop, sold to strong competition for $85.20.
