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