Muchea Sheep Report

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Report Date: 19th August 2025

Total Yarding: 12,337

Commentary

Supplies eased in number by around 1800 head at Muchea today. The sale consisted of approximately 6000 sheep and roughly 6000 lambs and 800 new season lambs. The buyer gallery was full of regulars and very crowded with interested onlookers. Both the mutton market and the lamb market Lifted $8/10 with one pen of exceptional lambs reaching $400/head.
New season store lambs ranged from $98 to $166 while airfreight weights sold from $162 to $190/head. Trade weight lambs were selling from $190 to $220 and heavy lambs returned $225 to $275/head.
Old season store lambs started from $80 up to $178 for bigger frames while light lambs were selling from $150 to $219/head. Trade lambs returned $175 to $256 while most lines of heavy lambs sold from $198 to $341/head. One pen of extra heavy Merino lambs with a full jacket and an estimated cwt of 38kg dressed sold for $381/head and a pen of Cross-bred lambs at a similar weight realized $400/head.
Merino wether hoggets from the same vendor realized $289 again with weight and a full fleece while the remaining wethers were lighter ranging from $100 to $180/head. Plain Merino ewe hoggets were making $100 to $150 and heavy weights sold to a top of $230/head. Crossbred hoggets returned $130 to $204 and younger rams sold to a top of $300/head.
Boner mutton lifted $10 making $80 to $173 while medium ewes returned $180 to $227 gaining $7/8 and heavy ewes were dearer by $5 selling to a top of $254/head. Heavy wethers were firm selling from $150 to $250 while mature rams sold from $80 to $200/head.
Terry Birkin MLA.