Buyers pick and choose at West Wyalong special sheep sale

It was an erratic market, and ewes and wether lambs went under the hammer at West Wyalong in a sale that included two feature dispersals.

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00:00There was some really good buying in the younger ewes,

00:02up to record ewes, especially now from older pastoral and the Clemson families dispersals.

00:08Some really good frame ewes, sold pretty cheap I thought,

00:15but the Scandinavian lamb ewes seemed to pick the job up a fair bit.

00:19And the older ewes, some of them dipped down into sort of fat price,

00:23but others with a bit of wool on them and frame,

00:27sold probably $20 to $30 and sometimes $40 better than fat price.

00:35And water's really becoming an issue, especially out on the west side of town,

00:39on the red country.

00:40Although just in the last week, there was a couple of areas that got topped up a bit,

00:44but overall, a lot of them missed it.

00:46And yeah, it's starting to play a big factor.

00:49The water's not so much the feed, but the water.

00:51Wanda Pastoral had some First Cross ewe hollocks,

00:54Scandinavian lamb, at 140% to Paul Dorsett-Rams,

00:58it made $310.

01:00That was a good sale.

01:02Unjoined young ewes got out to about $230-odd, I think,

01:06over on the Gap Cook family,

01:09purchased by Kevin Brewston family of Timora,

01:12who'd buy them pretty well every year, those particular sheep.

01:15Some sheep went to Dubbo, Waga, Griffith, Young,

01:20Goulburn, and local restockers participating also.