03/04/07
A ten-month-old home-bred Belgian Blue-cross bull from local
farmers Ken Fawcett & Sons, of Dale Head Farm, Barden, was
awarded the championship at the annual show and sale of young
feeding bulls at Skipton Auction Mart.
The Skipton young bulls champion
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Exhibited by John Fawcett, the youngster is by the Belgian Blue
Society-registered Brookfield Vaughan, bought from Stephen Potter,
of Thirsk, and now in its second year as a sire on the Fawcett
suckler herd.
Out of a Belgian Blue-cross cow, the title winner achieved top
price of the 252 young feeding bulls sold on the day when purchased
for £800 by Stephen Swales, of York.
The reserve champion from T & MM Sedgewick, of Kirkby Lonsdale,
sold locally for £720 to JA & JM Wade, of Cononley.
The Yorkshire Charolais Club sponsored a class for breed-sired
young bulls, which resulted in a clean sweep of prizes for Yorkshire
Dales farmers JA & AJ Coates, of Braida Garth.
Judges were brothers Barry and Bill Wagstaff, of Sutton-on-the-Forest,
York.
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