2023 Limousin Annual Journal

WEANED CALVES FEBRUARY 2022
SALES
£5,350 Limousin Tops
Brecon Potentials
A
top call of £5,350 was among
a number of highlights at
McCartneys’ sale of show
potential calves at Brecon on
Saturday 12 th February – a sale which
saw Limousin-sired calves dominate
proceedings.
Securing the highest price on the day
of £5,350 was Pure Gold, a Limousincross
heifer from Colin & Wendy
Phillips, Weobley, Herefordshire.
By Ballyrickard Pluto, a privately
purchased stock bull, she is out of
a homebred cross cow. She sold to
Messrs WP & JM Pritchard, Norton
Cannon, Herefordshire, with plans for
flushing.
Second top at £5,000 was another
Limousin heifer, this time Tysiaf
Sweetpea from Phil & Tracey Jones,
Erwood, Builth Wells. Sired by
Garnedd Oatabix and out of Tysiaf
Octavia, this purebred Limousin
heifer stood first in her class and
found a new home with Colin Harris,
Torrington, Devon.
Then at £4,500 came Starlight, a
Limousin-cross heifer from mother
and daughter team Wendy Morgan
& Caryl Howells, Llandeusant, Carms.
By the family’s stock bull Garnedd
Notice, this one took second place in
the pre-sale show and sold to Sean
Marsh, Dover, Kent.
Limousin breeding also shone
through in the championship line-up
under judge Paul Tippetts, Shifnal,
Shropshire, as he tapped out Tango,
a Limousin-cross heifer by Beulah
Jurassic and out of a Limousin dam
from Rob Jones & Family, Builth
Wells, Powys. Purchased for £3850,
she now joins the Foxhill Livestock
Top price at the Brecon Show Potential Calf Sale was Pure Gold,
a Limousin x Charolais heifer from Colin and Wendy Phillips.
show team of Michael & Melanie
Alford, Cullompton, Devon.
Messrs Mills, Llanafanfawr, Builth
Wells, took £3750 for their best of
the day, a Limousin-cross heifer out
of a British Blue cross cow. She was
knocked down to Phil & Sharon
Sellers, Lincoln.
Top priced bullock of the day and top
price in the unhaltered section was
Omicron, a Limousin-cross from LJ &
GV Rea, Dursley, Glos. This one is by
the AI sire Lodge Hamlet and sold
at £3,600 to join previous purchaser
Colin Harris.
Red Alert, a Limousin-cross from
DG & E Lewis, Plumsaint, Carms
was taken at £2,550 by D Thomas,
Lampeter.
Second highest price was a pure Limousin heifer,
Tyisaf Sweetpea from Phil and Tracey Jones.
A Limousin heifer, Starlight, from Wendy Morgan
and Caryl Howells, then sold for £4500.
13 Steers; average £1,820
24 Heifers; average £2718
Auctioneers: McCartneys
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