Wairere-blood composite ewe lambs sold to $240 on AuctionsPlus at the Tas Sheep sale last Thursday.
The consignment was offered account Symmons Plains, Perth, Tasmania, via Nutrien Ag Solutions.
The lambs were 12 to 13 months old, with 1200 shorn August 11, 2020, and 1000 on October 1.
The top price was $240 a head for 800 sold in four lines with an average weight of 51.7 kilograms live, 24.5kg dressed weight.
The price per head equated to 464.2c/kg live and 979.6c/kg dressed.
One lot of 200 sold, with average weights of 51.7kg but an average condition score slightly lower, sold for $238, or 460.4c/kg liveweight and 971.4c/kg dressed.
The slightly lighter portion, numbering 1000 total, at an average weight of 49.6kg live and 22.9kg dressed, with the August shearing, sold in five lots for $236.
On the weights that equated to 475.8c/kg liveweight and 1030.6c/kg dressed.
Nutrien agent Warren Johnston said the annual draft was taken from a ewe base of Wairere Romney with a composite mix over generations of Cashmore Oaklea, White Suffolk, Dorset and Corriedale.
The genetics gave high fertility and hardiness of feet while not becoming extreme in frame size and weight.
The main breeding flock was a self replacing flock run over four properties - Mt Elephant, Vic, Bowood, Symmons Plains & Rannoch Park.
The sale lambs were bred at Rannoch Park and moved to Symmons at shearing.
Mr Johnston said the result was a "good one" at this time of year.
He said the lambs were surplus to requirements and made way for new-season lambs coming through.
One lot was bought from a Victorian buyer while the remainder stayed in Tasmania.
Mr Johnston said the lambing dates in Tasmania were two to three months behind the mainland and numbers at this time of year were at their lowest.
"We won't fire up until around Christmas time, but the market's very good."
