Mother and daughter Elaine and Issy Hartley, of the Pendle flock, Roughlee, Nelson, stood both champion and reserve with March 2024-born twin lambs at CCM Skipton’s 5th annual Blue Diamonds show and sale of pedigree females.
The Hartley’s have 30 pedigree ewes on the farm and the MV accredited home-bred lambs that were shown this season were the first born from the show-winning Windrush Galvanise, out of Pendle Extraordinary Girl, herself previously shown as a ewe lamb and shearling.
They were tapped out by judge and Northern Area Texel Sheepbreeders’ chairman Mark Keighley, Leathley, Otley. The supreme champion, Pendle Jessie, also took the top call in the ring at 650gns, while another Windrush Galvanise daughter out of a David Alexander Millside dam, Pendle Joules, made 600gns. Both were snapped up by Kirklees purchaser AJ Bamforth, Slaithwaite.
The Hartley’s second placed lamb and reserve overall champion, Pendle Josie, was knocked down to R and S A Rawsthorne, Cark-in-Cartmel, for 450gns.
Elsa McKechnie of the Silver Birch flock, Wigglesworth, sold Silver Birch Judi Dench, a Silver Birch Hooley sired lamb out of Pendle Diva for 500gns, while the sale also saw non-MV accredited aged and in-lamb Blue Texel females go through the ring, with two from Andrew Bailey’s, Winsbury Blue flock, Leyburn, reaching 600gns and 520gns.
SHOW RESULTS
Ewe Lambs
1st – Lot 52, A M & E Hartley
2nd – Lot 53, A M &E Hartley
3rd – Lot 55, E McKechnie
Averages: Ewe lambs averaged £490 (2023 £267) and aged ewes £390 (£735) (CCM Skipton).
