Annual show & sale of
BELTEX SHEEP

Thursday 12th / Friday 13th August 2004

Neale and Janet McQuiston's 13,000gns sale topper at the annual official show and sale of pedigree Beltex sheep at Borderway, Carlisle. The shearling ram Airyolland Galahad from the McQuiston's 80-ewe flock at High Airyolland, New Luce, Newton Stewart, Wigtownshire sold to pedigree Beltex breeder Gordon Belcher for his Puleston flock at Lilliehurst Farm, Sherriffhales, Shifnal, Shropshire. The home-bred scrapie genotype one shearling is by a Belgian ram out of a Belgian ewe. The McQuistons are re-building their flock and using ET on their best ewes after losing their sheep in the 3km cull during foot and mouth.

The supreme champion, left, a gimmer shearling from J Currie and Sons, and the reserve supreme, a ram from Colin Barnes, both Northern Ireland breeders at Thursday's Beltex Show and Sale at Borderway Mart, Carlisle. Left to right, standing, John Hall, Dalston, who awarded a cup to the supreme champion, John Currie, the judge John McIlwraith, of Ayr, and Colin Barnes, with Mervyn Currie holding the champion and Paul Barnes with the supreme.

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