Longtown Store & Breeding Sheep Sale Reports

C&D Auction Marts Ltd had forward 1,552 store hoggs, feeding ewes and cast rams at their weekly sale at Longtown on Tuesday 25th March 2025.

Breeding Sheep

A small offering of ewes with lambs met an electrifying trade topping at £178 per life for Texel ewes with Texel twins at foot from AR Bell & Son, Kirkton, Hawick.

Ewes & Lambs

Texel - £178 Kirkton, £98 Woodburn

North Country Cheviot - £95, £70 Raggiewhat

Welsh Badgerface - £65, £62 Rainors

Shearlings & Lambs

Dutch Spotted - £95 Woodburn

North Country Cheviot - £78 Raggiewhat

Store Hoggs

A much smaller show of 1,354 store hoggs forward as numbers start to dry up.  However, purchasers continue to travel up and down the country looking for numbers.  A quality end of season show was on offer today with a lot of little running hoggs around. Top price was for a fantastic Texel hogg from Andrew Reid & Co, Glendearg, realising £160.

A fantastic run of 41 Texel cross hoggs from W Slaven & Son, Foregirth Farm went over the average and hit an impressive £140.

Principal prices

Store Hoggs

Texel - £160 Glendearg, £154, £146, £142, £141, £140 Foregirth, £143, £140 Longformacus, £140 Barrock End, £138 Wormerlaw, £138 Shankston

Greyface - £158, £134 Laverhay, £145 Foregirth, £140 Bayldon, £129 Grindon Hill, £122 High Nunclose, £118 Ballacarnane, £117 Outer Huntly, £116 Drumgrange, £115 Drumheller

Cheviot Mule - £152, £132 Bayldon, £134, £130 Lawesknowe

Blackface -  £146, £140 Glendearg, £138, £128 Carnochan, £136, £128 Grindon Hill, £136, £124 Shankston, £122 Catslackburn, £122 Laverhay, £119 Stell Green, £118 Ballaharry, £114 Drumgrange

Suffolk – £146 Bayldon, £144 Keepers Cottage, £138, £127, £116 Haliburton, £138 Laverhay, £124 Foregirth, £122, £120, £114 Cooilingel, £116 Niviston, £110 Drumgrange, £110 The Mark, £110 Catslackburn

Blue Faced Leicester - £140 Laverhay

Hill Cheviot - £138, £126 Skelfhill, £129 Catslackburn, £126 Glendearg, £124, £122, £116 Burnfoot of Ewes, £112 Gallhills

Beltex - £135 Barrock End

Kerry Hill - £122, £114, £100 Wormerlaw, £104 Drumheller

Welsh Badgerface - £114 Wormerlaw

Kendal Rough - £98 Gill Head

North Country Cheviot - £150 The Mark, £144 Laverhay, £133, £118 Lawsknowe, £131 Longformacus,  £123 Ballaharry, £121 Cooilingel, £118 Gallhills

Charollais - £150 Cubbyhill

Zwartbles - £118 Wormerlaw

Dorset - £112 Niviston

Easycare - £110 Cooilingel

Herdwick - £100, £81 Rowhead, £100, £84 Wasdale, £98 Ballaharry, £96 Thomas Telford Rd, £82 Moorside

Swaledale - £90, £84 Triermain

Shetland - £82 Kernal Hill

Feeding Ewes and Cast Rams

A smaller show of 156 feeding ewes and cast rams were on offer this week. Top price of the day went to S Corlett, Ballacowin, at £180 for a pen of Texel cross ewes.

Principal prices

Feeding Ewes

Texel - £180 Ballacowin , £160 Ballaterson £150, £140, £134 125, £108 Partridge Ghyll, £128, £100 Ridley

Hill Cheviot - £140 Keepers Cottage, £122 Wasdale Head, £100 Catslackburn

Kendal Rough - £130 Gill Head

Greyface - £126, £122, Ballterson, £124 Gill head, £95 Cooilingel

Lleyn - £120 Partridge Ghyll

North Country Cheviot - £116 Commonside

Zwartbles  - £108 Ballterson

Herdwick - £102 Wasdale Head

Blackface - £90 x2 Partridge Ghyll

Cast Rams

Beltex- £155 Barkbeth

Blackface - £150 Laverhay

Texel - £148 Ballterson

North Country Cheviot - £133 Priesthaugh

Blue Faced Leicester - £100 Partridge Ghyll

Kendal Rough - £98 Gill Head

For any enquiries contact our auctioneers

Daniel Lynn 07584 200489

John Walton 07880 527066

Joe Conley 0777 168 5073