A BRITISH Blue cross heifer was the star lot at a sale in Kirkbean last week, raising £3824 for a special charity.
The Bunting family, of Midtown Farm, sold off the heifer in aid of Sam’s Lab in Nepal, which provides underprivileged children with new and upgraded software to ensure them a better education and the best start in life.
It’s a cause close to the family’s heart as it was started in memory of their daughter Samantha Bunting, who died following a quad bike accident in September 2021, aged 21.
Donations collected at her funeral were initially taken to Nepal to support a mission in a children’s school and a computer lab was set up and named in her honour.
And the latest total is also bound for Nepal.
Harrison and Hetherington (H&H) conducted last week’s sale at which the heifer was actually sold twice over for £1600: it went firstly to Grange Quarries Ltd, Lockerbie who very generously put it back up for sale and she was then bought by K&R Foster Ltd.
The mart then donated an extra £500.
A H&H spokesperson said: “Thank you to both of them for this, along with all other people’s generous donations.
“We would like to thank the Bunting family for all their custom over the past years and for entrusting us with sales of their livestock and machinery. Also thank you to all the purchasers and underbidders both at the sale and online.
“The Bunting family would generously like to donate all the proceeds from this British Blue x Heifer in memory of their eldest daughter Sam who tragically lost her life in 2021. The money from this heifer will be donated to ‘Sam’s Lab’.”
The sale day also included a range of machinery going under the hammer, with the leading prices being £30,000 for a New Holland TH5.26; £17,000 for a Ford Ranger; and £5000 for Keenan Mech-Fiber 300 Feed Box.
