THIS pen of lambs at the Wagga market kept everyone guessing right until the hammer fall.
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Everyone knew they were good. Standouts in fact. But the market had started a little cheaper and confidence mellowed.
The second-cross Poll Dorset lambs, which were finished on lucerne and grain at a Coolamon property, were heavy.
A couple of buyers estimated they weighed as much as 40 kilograms dressed.
Vendor Bruce Hamilton of “Emerald Park”, Coolamon was conservative about the line of 130 lambs which he estimated at 36 kilograms dressed.
And overall he was pleased with the result and said there were still more to sell in coming weeks.
The high prices haven’t been isolated to the extra-heavy or export categories and a couple of weeks ago Yvette McKenzie of “Grasmere”, Bethungra sold Merino lambs for $152.20.