Longtown Store & Breeding Sheep Sale Reports

C & D Auction Marts held their weekly sale of Breeding sheep, Store hoggs and Feeding sheep at Longtown on Tuesday 22nd April 2025.

Ewe and lambs jump to a whole new level. Suffolks top at £250 per life for a 4-crop ewe with a single tup lamb at foot, from WJ & JG Bell Kinninghall. Texel’s top at £200 per life twice for two pens of gimmers with singles and twins at foot, also from WJ & JG Bell, Kinninghall.
Wholesale averages £126.17 per life.

Breeding Sheep
Ewes with Singles
Suffolk - £250 & £190 Kinninghall
Texel - £200, £192, £190, £188, £175 & £165 Kinninghall, £142 Morwood
Dutch Spot - £165 Kinninghall
Mules - £128 Morwood, £125 Leapsrigg, £115 Upper Glendiven
Kerry Hill - £115 5 Kirk Moat

Ewes with Twins
Texel - £200, £165 & £160 Kinninghall, £135 Crossings Cottage, £135 Old Police House, £132 Morwood
Dutch Spot - £175, £155 & £135 Kinninghall
Suffolk - £162 & £142 Kinninghall, £122 Wanton Walls
Cheviot Mule - £150 Kinninghall
Mules - £128 Kinninghall, £125 Crossings Cottage, £122 Moss Kennels, £120 Crossings Cottage, £120 Wanton Walls
Cheviot - £118 Orthwaite Hall
Herdwick - £60 Manfield Cottage
Shetland - £42 Manfield Cottage

Breeding Ewe Hoggs
Suffolk - £172 Fairhill
Texel - £144 & £120 Fell Lane

Store hogg numbers (204). Store numbers are starting to drop off now with an end of season show on offer. Strong farming hoggs are still easy to cash despite the resistance in the fat trade. Top price was a tremendous pen of Texel cross hoggs, realising £160 per head from G & S Somerville, Dumfries. 

Store Hoggs
Texel - £160 Aar-Dar, £132 & £130 Walley Thorn, £128 Kilnknowe Cottage, £126 & £120 Walley Thorn
Suffolk - £152 Aar-Dar, £113 Sweetbit
Cheviot - £115 & £88 Sweetbit
Blackface - £92 Shankston, £90 Garchew, £80 Shankston
Ryeland - £80 Kennels Cottage,
Cross - £75 & £72 Low Old Shields
Badgerface - £62 Rainors
Kerryhill - £60 Sweetbit
Shetland - £50 Kilknowe, £40 (x2) 8 Post Office Street

Tup Lamb
Texel - £118 Walley Thorn

Feeding sheep are highly sought after with numbers very limited. Many more feeding sheep are needed on a weekly basis to fulfil buyer’s demand. Top price was a pen of fantastic Texel cross ewes from EB Lishman, Fell Lane Farm, realising £200.

Feeding Ewes
Texel - £200 & £190 (x2) Fell Lane, £130 Aar-Dar, £130, £128 & £113 Langhill Crossing Cottage
Cheviot Mule - £148 Archbank, £140 Harper Hill, £138 & £124 Penlaw
Cheviot - £122 Archbank, £112 Burnfoot of Ewes
Blackface - £108 Penlaw, £98 Shankston, £92 Garchew
Cross - £85 & £62 Low Old Shields
Ryeland - £60 Kennels Cottage

Feeding Rams
Texel - £140 Archbank, £128 Low Old Shields
Cheviot - £138 Archbank, £120 Blaebeck