Ballymena Mart, County Antrim

Sheep sale, Wednesday 22 October 2025

1,790 head on offer. Prices in sterling per head. Week 43, 2025

• Lambs £131/head* mart average

1790 sheep in Ballymena resulted in a steady trade. Fat lambs sold to 666p for 22 Texels 19.5kg at £130 offered by H McNeill, Ballygally and to a top per head of £144 for 12 Texels 29kg for J Reilly, Ballycastle. Fat ewes sold to £192.

Ballymena Mart, sale report, 22 October 2025

Prices

Category	Weight or type	Avg per kg	Range per kg	Avg per head	Range per head	Head
Lambs	All weightsderived from 38 lots	£6.00/kg	£5.75 to £6.66/kg	£131	£106 to £144	440
Cull ewes	All weights				£80 to £192	386
Bold figures are the mart's own. Anything lighter was worked out by farmprices.ie from the lots the mart listed, because the report did not give that figure. A line marked "part derived" carries both: the mart stated some of it and the rest comes from its lot list.

Sample lots

38 lots

Category	Head	Breed	Weight kg	Price	Per kg
Lambs	22	TEX	20	£130	£6.66/kg
Lambs	13	TEX	19	£122	£6.59/kg
Lambs	9	SUF	20	£123	£6.28/kg
Lambs	10	SPO	20	£122	£6.25/kg
Lambs	15	TEX	20	£125	£6.25/kg
Lambs	3	TEX	21	£125	£6.09/kg
Lambs	6	SPO	22	£131	£6.07/kg
Lambs	1	CB	18	£106	£6.05/kg
Lambs	11	TEX	21	£124	£6.04/kg
Lambs	5	TEX	22	£129	£5.97/kg
Lambs	4	SUF	20	£120	£5.97/kg
Lambs	34	TEX	21	£125	£5.95/kg
Lambs	14	TEX	21	£122	£5.95/kg
Lambs	21	TEX	23	£131	£5.82/kg
Lambs	18	CH	22	£128	£5.81/kg
Lambs	5	SUF	21	£122	£5.81/kg
Lambs	13	TEX	22	£127	£5.75/kg
Lambs	16	SUF	22	£127	£5.75/kg
Lambs	11	TEX	22	£127	£5.75/kg
Lambs	17	TEX	22	£127	£5.75/kg
Lambs	3	TEX	22	£127	£5.75/kg
Lambs	30	TEX	22	£127	£5.75/kg
Lambs	12	TEX	30	£144
Lambs	1	TEX	28	£143
Lambs	1	TEX	30	£142
Lambs	22	CH	26	£142
Lambs	1	SPO	29	£141
Lambs	24	TEX	27	£140
Lambs	1	CB	28	£140
Lambs	10	CB	29	£140
Lambs	4	CB	29	£140
Lambs	9	CB	30	£139
Lambs	14	TEX	25	£139
Lambs	24	TEX	26	£138
Lambs	2	SPO	27	£138
Lambs	2	TEX	28	£138
Lambs	12	TEX	29	£138
Lambs	20	TEX	27	£138

The lots the mart chose to print in its report, usually the better end of the trade. The averages above are the figure to quote.

Source

Read from the mart's own report, a web page at www.ballymenalivestockmarket.com. Fetched 2 September 2026.