Scanned in lamb Dohne ewes, advising 100 percent multiple detections, made to a sale topping $241 per head at a special autumn of store sheep at Deniliquin on Friday.
Joined to White Suffolk rams and due to lamb through late May and June, the Coonong Station, Jerilderie blood and bred line of 163 was snapped by Elders Deniliquin while a pen of the same age two year-old sisters – scanned with single detections made $218.
These sales along with a yard of rising two year-old, May-shorn Merino ewes, Woodpark-blood that made $193 a head, also SIL to White Suffolk rams for a May onwards lambing, formed part of a 12,000 head yarding that was rather poorly attended by a small following of local southern Riverina and central and western Victoria sheep graziers.
Sales of older depastured Merino ewes, aged 3.5 and 6.5 years, that were mostly joined to terminal rams generally sold well on the back of recent inflated mutton prices making $100- $136 a head while drafts of 16-drop wethers were also well supported making $70-$121 a head depending on size and condition.
