Tynewydd Farm

This year saw a strong sale at the NSA and we were very pleased with the pen of shearlings.  The trade on both pens, one close to the start and the other at the end in ring 14, saw 100% clearance with a top price of 4600 gns and an average of £824 for 35 rams.

Topping the trade was a ram we bought at the NSA as a ram lamb, Cae Waen Priest by Jonsland Osian,  he was through very close to the end of the sale at the start of our second run.  Priest was the second highest price of the day at 4600 gns having grown into a massive shearling with good muscling, plenty of length and a tight skin.

Tynewydd Pearce by Haddo Lucky Strike out of a Lyonshall Irish bred ewe sold for 1,120 gns to Richard Joseph, Boughrood.  Tynewydd Pastel by Haddo None Better out of a Haddo Lucky Strike dam sold for 1000 gns to John Kinsey, Builth Wells.  Also at 1000 gns was Tynewydd Palamedes, again by Haddo Lucky Strike out of a Lyonshall Irish ewe.

We were also really pleased to purchase a ram lamb, Blaencar Rocky, from Jeff Morgan who'll be used across some of our yearling ewes.

A huge thank you to all of our customers.

















 

I was sadly unable to make it to the South Wales Club Sale this year.  Without our usual large group of ewes going it was going to be a somewhat different sale.  We took 8 yearling rams and 2 ram lambs.  In the ram lambs were our champion from Brecon Show, Tynewydd Rufus, and the massive lamb we initially entered for the Welsh National, Tynewydd Rameses.  We were very pleased to be awarded overall champion with Tynewydd Rameses (index 186) with Rufus (index 179) coming in 3rd out of the ram lambs.  Rameses went on to make 900 gns and Rufus 520 gns.  The yearling rams also sold well up to 600 gns with just one coming home.  Report and pictures are on the texel website: http://www.texel.co.uk/groups/south_wales/2010/llandovery_sale.php

We have the ram sale in Talgarth this Friday followed by the big one: the NSA at Builth Wells where we have 37 rams entered on the 19th/20th of September.

With the move of the Welsh National texel sale to Welshpool we didn't know quite what to expect.  As half of our rams seem to sell up that direction from the NSA we thought there may be better commercial support to maintain a good clearance.  This seemed to be the case but it's always difficult to tell until you see the numbers.

We had a good show on the Friday with the lamb in the open Tynewydd Rascal (index 226) being placed 5th; in the performance recorded class (a new experience for us) our substitute Tynewydd Ralph (index 195), who was previously 3rd at Brecon Show, held out 1st place in a strong class until the very end when he was switched with Procters Rocco who then went on to win the overall championship!  But we were very pleased with 2nd and had he not been one of the worst tempered lambs (weighing 90kg) we've ever had he may have shown himself better and kept his first place.

The sale seemed to be stronger than usual and benefitted from the new Welshpool market which is fantastic.  It would be a hugely positive move if we can build this into a sale on par with the other Nationals. Hopefully it can keep it's date and location, following such transient years, and build a reputation.

Our three lambs were all sold to a top of 800 gns for Tynewydd Rascal and an average of £578.

A new stock ram was also purchased, the overall champion (who'd previously stopped us winning the recorded class!), Procters Rocco for 3,000 gns.  He is sired by Kerryhill Oliver (8,000 gns) and his dam is a fantastic looking ewe (in the picture anyway) Chessy PNI08 016 who was the Irish National Champion as a gimmer. He also has a high index of 287.  The top for the day went to Glenside at 4,000 gns with Charlie Boden not far behind at 3,600 gns.

I'm now a married man!  It was an eventful July the week of the Royal Welsh Show was a great one.  Although we weren't showing this year we did venture up on two days.  The Monday evening saw the usual Texel society hog roast with the flock competition awards.  We were really pleased to win the All Wales championship.  There was a tremendous cheer and thank you to everyone for your support.

Later in the week friends from all over the world moved onto the farm in preparation for our wedding on the 24th.  It went off really well with some duck herding and fireworks thrown in!

We've now done our preparation for the sales.  As Lucky Strike is no longer with us and his females have done very well we've decided to keep the whole of this years consignment of gimmers with the exception of a couple of private sales.  MDY09 1249 is pictured who is a full sister to the Welsh National sale champion female from 2008 which sold to Glenside.  We're planning to take her to Brecon show this coming weekend.  Other sale entries
- 3 ram lambs entered for the Welsh National all by Arkle Pacific Star.
- 37 shearling rams for the NSA
- 8 shearling rams for the South Wales Club sale

As the lambs grow out Arkle has done a particularly good job on the ewe lambs and we have a group of 60 kept back with very few to be pulled out.  Picture included of one of them here.

The annual South Wales club Ram Safari is this Sunday finishing up at Tynewydd followed by dinner in the Red Lion.  Find the full schedule here:

http://www.texel.co.uk/groups/south_wales/index.php