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Record prices at Ryan Texel Sale
At the Ryan Texel Reduction Sale held at Blessington Mart on Saturday May 21st,a top price of 1300gns was paid by Sean Murray,Pettigo,Co.Donegal for a 2009 born daughter of Baileys One & Only with a single March born ewe lamb by Tamnamoney Ned at foot.Sean also paid the second highest price on the day 1000gns for a 1996 born daughter of Garrolagh Iggy Pop with a 20th of March born single ram lamb at foot by Baileys One & Only.
According to John Doyle of J.P & M Doyle Auctioneers " record prices for Blessington Mart were paid for Texel crossbred hogget ewes". A top price of €350 per unit was paid for a pen of 3 Texel crossbred ewes with a single lamb each.A pen of 5 Texel crossbred hoggets with twin lambs each sold for €345 per unit and the last lot into the ring was a pen of 5 Texel crossbred hoggets with no lambs selling for €300 each.
There was huge interest on the sale day with a full clearance of Texel crossbred ewes and a 95% clearance of pedigree Texels.
Pedigree Texels averaged €485 and the Texel crossbred hoggets averaged €280.
Texels come out on TOP in the recent trials conducted by lambplus in the CPT farms. The data collected over a two year period show that TEXELS were the easiest lambing breed out of the five breeds used in the CPT farms.
