Knightsway Sale

Colin · Post by **Colin** » Sat Oct 04, 2008 3:59 pm

Just returned from the Knightsway sale and the prices paid were amazing. The highest priced cow on her own was Knightsway Katy at 4,000 gns; highest cow (Knightsway Jody) with heifer calf at foot (Knightsway Jade 2nd) was 6,400 gns; highest maiden heifer was Knightsway Gina at 2,150 gns; Knightsway Paddy went for 8,800 gns.

There were many others reaching this order of magnitude.

A great acknowledgement to Judy Knight's achievements.

Colin

carole · Post by **carole** » Sat Oct 04, 2008 7:50 pm

Just got back ourselves, incredible sale, incredible cows, an absolute credit to the breed and the breeder unfortunately our pockets were just not quite deep enough....I did step in a paddy cowpat, that's got to be worth something!

clacko · Post by **clacko** » Sat Oct 04, 2008 9:45 pm

what i saw was a lot of poeple with trailers going home empty, credit to the knightways herd and the people involved who got them to where they got to, but how can mr average compete with people who are prepared to pay crazy prices for quality stock, it really gives us lesser mortals no chance to get a foot in the door with the odd older animal with a few years left in it. nice if you have the quality, not good if you are looking for it,

Sylvia · Post by **Sylvia** » Sun Oct 05, 2008 8:48 am

I think there is a point about sales where prices go sky high which needs to be considered.

People who do buy at whatever high price will expect to get those sort of prices when they sell offspring. As the general run of Dexter prices is more often in the £hundreds rather than the £thousands this is a recipe for disappointment. Some disappointment in livestock breeding is inevitable, but finding your animals are worth maybe a tenth of what you paid for their parents is not a recipe for contented ownership.

In saying this I take NOTHING away from the breeding and marketing skills of the seller.

It just isn't relevant, in my opinion, to the general Dexter scene

Rutherford · Post by **Rutherford** » Sun Oct 05, 2008 8:48 am

how can Mr. average compete with people who are prepared to pay crazy prices for quality stock.
I suggest Clacko, you go to the average sale where you can compete with average buyers. There are sufficient reports of such sales in the last few days to confirm that. I cannot see the buyers at Knightsway getting a return on their money.
Beryl (Woodmagic)

natmadaboutdexters · Post by **natmadaboutdexters** » Sun Oct 05, 2008 10:28 am

I would love to have gone to the sale, but judging by the prices acheived would have come home with an empty trailer. What was the lowest price of the day? Just for comparision.

Natasha

Post by **Mark Bowles** » Sun Oct 05, 2008 10:43 am

according to my scribble it was 950gns for a 1999 short black in calf cow Knightsway Calypso, i may be wrong.

carole · Post by **carole** » Sun Oct 05, 2008 10:59 am

Um hate to be picky but I thought their was a 7mth bull calf that went for 500 (but again I could be wrong) heh I've just remembered I did buy something there....and I had ketchup with it! :D

clacko · Post by **clacko** » Sun Oct 05, 2008 12:39 pm

beryl, we went down to look at real quality as we are new to "dexters". i thought it would be good chance to see what standards we should be aiming for with our own few animals. i also took a heap of cash so we could possibly purchase some older well bred animals to give us a good platform to work from. what i was amazed at was the prices these older animals were making, i can't justify spending that sort of money on that age of animal. we will have to take the harder route. but also there were people at knightsway who would have been at york if the two hadn't clashed, the way i see things are if they see what they want they will have it, paul

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monica waltho · Post by **monica waltho** » Sun Oct 05, 2008 1:17 pm

Who bought ?
Have we got new dexter keepers or was it established breeders wanting a good blood line ?

Colin · Post by **Colin** » Sun Oct 05, 2008 2:38 pm

I didn't know who the successful buyers were, but they were small in number and very determined. One was from the Wiltshire Wildlife Trust which makes you wonder what he was doing, bidding so high. Money was no object it seems. The rest of us were mere onlookers, with our hands firmly stuffed into our pockets. I was one of the many that came away with an empty trailer.

The lowest priced cow I noted was 4 yrs old Knightsway Poppy at 750 gns. She'd had a caesarean for her first and was currently empty.

The steers I noted ranged from 270 gns (6 month old) to 325 gns for 18 months.

Colin

Broomcroft · Post by **Broomcroft** » Sun Oct 05, 2008 2:44 pm

Why on earth pay 270 gns for a 6 month old steer? That's got to be about £2 a kilo liveweight hasn't it !!!

redhill · Post by **redhill** » Sun Oct 05, 2008 3:34 pm

I've just told our local grazing project group, expect to pay between £ 175. and £250 for steers, perhaps I should have kept my mouth shut, any photos of these Dexters ? Sue

ann · Post by **ann** » Mon Oct 06, 2008 9:45 pm

I hope the wildlife people are not like or local lot who waste money like its gone out of fashion and certainly are not the best stock people in the world. they had a heifer in with my dexters for about a month and they check them so rarely that I don't think they knew she was missing and the only contact number is to the office which is closed at weekends.

Martin · Post by **Martin** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 9:29 am

Clive, Ive just recieved a market report from Ashford as they are looking for animals to put through the ring. Good store cattle between 8-11 months old sold on 7th October for more than £2 a kilo. Average sorts where their weight plus £200.
Going on the above maybe £2 a kilo for good Dexter steers is the correct price. Good for the breeder, not so good for the finisher.