Reserve champion Zwartble led Dingwall sale at £800

Carrah Luna sold scanned with twins to Raymond Heigh of the Brookdene flock, Yorkshire.

The event, staged alongside the rare and native breeds livestock sale, saw the championship awarded to the ewe lamb Druid Temple Marnie from Laura Marwick of the Druid Temple flock. It made £350 to Mike and Amy Biglands of the Biglands flock. Second top price was £700 paid for Sammy Stewart’s in-lamb ewe, Janetstown Gaia, purchased by Andrew Bateman of the Holmepride flock.

Champion of the day a ewe lamb Druid Temple Marnie from Messrs. L. Marwick and E. Grant, Druid Temple Zwartbles, Inverness Other breeds sold to £700 for a Blue Texel gimmer carrying twins from Invercharron, Ardgay.

A Welsh Section A mare from Glen Mor, Invergarry, made £550, with goats selling to £260 on two occasions, firstly for a Pygmy nanny goat that ran with the billy and a billy goat both from Park Terrace, Lairg.

Lambs (361) sold to £300 for a Derbyshire Gritstone from Roadside Croft, Wester Muckernich, while ewes (104) peaked at £280 for a pair of Cheviot maiden ewes from Cuilaneilan, Kinlochewe.

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Leading Prices

Zwart – In-lamb ewes – Janetstown Zwartbles, Keith, £700 (x2); Carrah Zwartbles, £220. Gimmers – Druid Temple Zwartbles, Inverness, £600, £350. Ewe lambs – Druid Temple Zwartbles, £350 (x2). Rams – Wester Raddery Zwartbles, Fortrose, £275, £130; Deerpark Lodge, Glenlyon, £120; Drumancroy, Portmahomack, £120.

Goats – Pygmy – Kinbeachie, Culbokie, £200 (x2); Stron Na Darach, Lochcarron, £170, £150 (x2); Kardene, Achagour, £150, £100; Inion Farm, Oban, £150, £130; Park Terrace, £140. Saanen cross – Langwell Beag, Ardgay, £100.

Lambs – Badface Tex – Plewlands, Duffus, £280 Muirton, Buckie, £280, £220, £200, £160, Elphin Street, New Aberdour, £115. Rye – Upper Blackkpark, Westhill, £200, Ruthven, Kirkmichael, £170, Elchies Estate, Craigellachie, £100. DS – Muirton, £140. Cross – Muirton, £140 (x2). Kerryhill – Braefindon House, Culbokie, £140, £135, £105. Dor – Oakview House, Beauly, £138, £135; Bogburn, Duncanston, £102. Chev – Knockinnon, Dunbeath, £130, £100; Fisherfield, Laide, £115; Cuilaneilan, £115, £110. Ice – Ruthven £120, £110; Braes of Ardeonaig, Killin £110, £100. Herd – Little Mill, Inverurie £100.

Ewes – BFL – Greenbrae Farmhouse, Elgin £250. Dor – Gibston, Keith £195; Bogburn £102. Rye – Elchies Estate, £112. Herdk – Little Mill £110, £100; Portgower, Helmsdale £100. KH – Clinton Drive, Fraserburgh, £105. ValBlack – Laurel Avenue, Inverness £100. Shet – Cnoc Dubh, Dornoch £95. Heb – Hollybank, Beauly £90.

Gimmers – Chev – Seafield View, Mey £450, £400, £350, £280, £200; Cuilaneilan, £450, £300; Longoe, Mey £400, £380. BFL – Ruthven £400. Belt – Invercharron £350, £300. Rye – Ruthven £200. Herd – Broombank, Culloden Moor, £150, £140; Cypress, Achterneed, £115; Littlemill, £100. Dors – Gibston, £140; Knockinnon, £110, £100; Bogburn Farm, £100. BF – Bogburn £135; Llanwenog – Burnfield Farm, Rothiemay, £120. ValBlack– Luibfearn, Ullapool, £105; Dunmore, Beauly, £100.

Rams – DS – Elphin Street, £200. Chev – Shenval, Glenlivet, £150. Ice – Ruthven, £120. Badgerfaced Tex – Elphin Street, £118. Herd – Lower Kincraig, Invergordon, £110. Welsh Badgerface – Sand of Udrigle, Laide, £100.