Knockenjig Beef Shorthorn in demand peaking at 11,000gns
Beef Shorthorn females met a firm demand selling to a top of 11,000gns in Stirling on Sunday 18 October when David and Rosemary Dickie dispersed their Knockenjig herd and achieved total clearance with 36 lots averaging £5,299.58.
Leading call at 11,000gns was for 18-month-old roan heifer, Knockenjig Duchess N2018 TI +45, SRI +45, by the 9,000gns Meonside Ganster and out of a home-bred dam. She sold in calf to Fearn Jumpstart to Gates Farming, Coldoverton, Leicestershire.
The same buyers went on to take six more lots. They paid 8,000gns for the Excellent classified Knockenjig Rosie Duchess 4 TI +39, SRI +44, a seven-year-old roan Meonhill Charlie Chaplin daughter sold with her six-month-old roan calf, Knockenjig Rosie Duchess P2047 by the 10,000gns Fearn Jumpstart.
Minutes later, Gates Partnership went to 6,000gns for another same way bred cow and her calf, this time the Knockenjig Foxglove Flake TI + 44, SRI +53, an eight-year-old light roan by Charlie Chaplin and paired with her seven-month-old roan Knockenjig Foxglove Flake P2038 by Leonard of Upsall.
Leonard of Upsall TI +47, SRI +57, a roan three-year-old Dingo of Upsall son and one of the herd’s two stock bulls, commanded a 10,000gns bid from SS Horton and Sons, Cirencester, Gloucestershire.
The day’s second 10,000gns call was made by Leazes Farm, Wolsingham, County Durham for a cow and calf pair. The Excellent classified Knockenjig Duchess H833 TI +35, SRI +38 was a six-year-old roan by Charlie Chaplin, and her bull calf, the six-month-old red and little white Leonard sired Knockenjig Picolo.
Leazes Farm secured two more lots; they included at 8,000gns another same way bred Excellent classified six-year-old, Knockenjig Margo H886 TI +44, SRI +52 with her seven-month-old red and little white heifer, Knockenjig Margo P2040.
AE and AJ Thornber, Halifax, West Yorkshire paid 8,500gns for the in calf Knockenjig Margo K1944 TI +40, SRI 51, a red four-year-old by Glengoy Geronimo, sold with her bull calf, the six-month-old red Jumpstart sired Knockenjig Poseidon.
A 7,500gns call secured Knockenjig Rosie Duchess N2008 TI +44, SRI +51 for T Russell, Stanford in the Vale, Oxon. A 19-month-old roan, by Jumpstart, she was sold in calf to Leonard.
Two, 17-month-old bulls by Jumpstart, each commanded a 6,000gns bid. First to go was the roan Knockenjig Nikel to P Harrison, Grantown-on-Spey, Moray, and the second, Knockenjig Nebula to New York Farms, Silsden, West Yorkshire.
Averages: 20 cows and calves £5,360.25; 1 in calf cow £2,940.00; 9 in calf heifers £5,401.67; 2 stock bulls £7,875.00; 4 young bulls £4,068.75
Auctioneers: United Auctions