[RaisinHall Tamworths]

How was the sale?  Hope prices were good for those selling 

[chickenfeed]

some good prices
pitrain
boar £600 g, £400 g, £300 g
gilts £330 g downwards
welsh boar
£400g
lop boars
£720 downwards
some other breeds not so good but as a whole some money was spent
we withdrew ours prior to the sale as we had already sold them so we only took them for the LOYfinals
 

[RaisinHall Tamworths]

Sound to be better prices than the BPA sale last week then 

[chickenfeed]

that seemed to be the way most folk were thinking too 

[Greenmoor]

Lovely to meet you and chat today chickenfeed!  We came away with an Actress gilt, and even though prices were good on the whole, we bagged ourselves a bargain with her at 130g! 

That's us done now, no more pigs here for the foreseeable future!  Next stop, Chelford for the   

Gemma x

[chickenfeed]

Lovely to meet you and chat today chickenfeed!  We came away with an Actress gilt, and even though prices were good on the whole, we bagged ourselves a bargain with her at 130g! 

That's us done now, no more pigs here for the foreseeable future!  Next stop, Chelford for the 

Gemma x

nice to meet you and your family too gemma.
pleased to hear you brought another lop i did not manage to see who brought what as i ended up sterwarding the pigs forward so missed all the ring action i just got so see the prices on paper after.
 

[Fleecewife]

 www.grassroots.co.uk/melton.html   most of the show results and top + average prices. 
 
I find it interesting that often the breed Champion doesn't fetch the highest price 

[Fowgill Farm]

No pig results   on there?
mandy
 

[chickenfeed]

i have most of the pig results (not 100% of them as i was stewarding at the same time) if you want any of a particular breed let me know
 

[Fowgill Farm]

GOS please if any of them managed to get sold   sales were pretty dire at Ross.
Thanks
Mandy 

[chickenfeed]

i wont put the prefixes on here i do have all the GOS that sold............dont get too excited only a handful there.
 
dolly sow 12/08/2010 in pig £200
princess joan jan gilt £220
 
4 princess may gilts £42 each
gerald march born boar £220

[Fowgill Farm]

Thanks for that, prices are pretty low again £200 for a 2yr old in pig sow! and £42 for may gilts, good god thats the price of an 8wk old weaner!
Only the boar was a decent price so there must have been a few after him!
Mandy 

[chickenfeed]

there were a fair few buyers around the ring but it depends on what they were wanting the pitrains reached good money berkshires were low lops held their own but in all fairness it was also the LoY finals so that brings in the buyers for them, with the way feed prices are atm its going to have a knock on to the pig prices.
the £42 gos owner told me by the time her entry etc was taken into account they reached £25 in real terms.
 
the local meat man was ringside so it looked like he was looking for a bargain.

[Fowgill Farm]

Yes have noticed people cutting back their herds there a good number GOS pigs for sale on their website but don't sem to be many takers, i myself have a dolly gilt for sale, she's far too good for bacon but its looking like thats going to be her destiny    
i heard some kk's went for £2 each at Skipton the other week, all very sad.
thanks again for the info
mandy 

[Greenmoor]

£42 for a gilt? How disappointing for the seller