Longtown Store & Breeding Sheep Sale Report

Store Lambs

C & D Auction Marts Limited had forward 8,008 store lambs at their weekly sale at Longtown on Tuesday 13th October, 2015.

A far better quality show attracted a huge company of local and distant buyers, trade for all classes was much dearer on the week. Top of £64 for Texels from Glenkiln Farms, others £63 Sunnycroft, £60 Gillalees; Beltex £60.50 No 2 Newton Cottages; Charollais £61 Glenkiln; Greyface £60 Cacra Bank, £55.50 Lamperts Cottage, £55 Greensburn; Suffolk £60 Borthwick Brae; Cheviot Mule £56.50 The Mark, £54.50 Low Moor Howe and Routin Lynn, £54 Sleetbeck; Lleyn £53.50 Low Tipalt; Hampshire £49 The Mark; Kendal Rough £41 Church View; Swaledale £35.50, £33.50 East Stobbylea.

Cast ewes to £62 Harwood House, cast rams £98 Newton.

Cheviot lambs (2,889) incorporated the Hill Northies Show & Sale which was ably judged by Mr Bob Cartner, Blackwoodridgehouse, whose awards were as follows:-

1^st – Messrs J.R. & S.N. Hislop, Windyhaugh, sold at £55.50.

2^nd – Sorbietrees Farms Ltd, Sorbietrees, sold at £55.

3^rd – Messrs J.R. & C.J. Ward, Whitstone Hill, sold at £57.

Cheviots met a fantastic trade with several new buyers present. Top of £56.50 Lymiecleugh, £55.50, £55 Girnwood, £54.50 Glendinning and Lymiecleugh. Other Northies to £56.50 Bradley, £56 Greenside.

Blackfaces (2,090) were not as strong but trade was animated throughout. Top of £65 the Row, £50 Gibbs Hill and Greensburn.

Breeding Sheep

C&D Auction Marts Limited had forward a massive show of 5,217 breeding sheep, comprising 2,283 Hill Ewes at their 2nd sale, and 2,934 Lowland sheep at Longtown on Tuesday 13^th October 2015.

A busy ring of buyers for Blackface and Cheviot ewes saw trade dearer than at the main sale.

Lowland ewe lambs and ewes were a good trade throughout, although the shearlings proved harder to cash unless they had been suckled. 

Also included were 4 dispersals and 2 reductions which met a fast selling trade.  Details will follow.

Hill ewes were in strong demand and many more could have been sold to advantage.  The sale topped at £94 for Swaledale shearlings from Border Rigg and £80 for 5 year old Cheviots from Arkleton.

In the Lowland section the sale topped at £108 for a grand pen of suckled Texel shearlings from Messrs MacTaggart, Dunjop, followed closely at £102 for the 2^nd pen from the same home and also for a pen of outstanding 7/8^th Texel ewe lambs from Messrs Bell, Kirkton, Hawick.

Dispersal sheep –

Hindmarsh, Bygate Hall

Blackface – 1 crop £68, 2 crop £60, 3 crop £55, 4 crop £47.

Clerkhill

Cheviots – ewe lambs £61, shearlings £76, £75, 1 crop £69, 2 crop £72, 3 crop £68, 4 crop £66, 5 crop £63.

Drysdale, Old Cambus (600)

Suffolk x – shearlings £72, 1 crop £78, 2 crop £77, 3-4 crop £80, £76, £72.

Texel x – shearlings £78, £76, 1 crop £74, 2 crop £80, 3-4 crop £74, £71.

Lleyn x – shearlings £70, 1 crop £70, 2 crop £65, 3-4 crop £73.

North Country Cheviot – shearlings £70, 1 crop £71, £68, 2 crop £71, 3-4 crop £69, £65.

Rams – Texel 2 shear £320, 3 shear £260.  Suffolk 2 shear £180, 3 shear £140.  Lleyn £140, £110.

Moorhouse Farming, Stow (138)

Suffolk x – 2 shear £70, £69, 3 shear £77, £72, £71, 4 shear £74, £71, £66.

Reduction sheep –

Scott, Dinley

North Country Cheviot – 1 crop £72, 2 crop £72, 3 crop £70, 4 crop £64.

Cheviot Mule – 1 crop £82, 2 crop £72, 3 crop £73, 4 crop £66.

Mules – ewe lambs £77, £66, shearlings £81, £74, 2 shear £79, 3-4 shear £76.

Texel – shearlings £78, £76, 2 shear £88, 3-4 shear £68.

Other principal prices:-

Breeding ewes

Texel - £95, £89, £78 Dunjop, £76, £74 Harwood House, £74 Haithwaite.

Greyface - £80 Bowes.

Hill Cheviot - £80 Arkleton, £68 Fingland, £64 Mainside, £63 Arkleton, £62 Mainside.

Blackface - £68 Tyrone House, £60 Collin Bank, £58 Megdale and Penchrise, £57 Bushley Bank, £56 Megdale and Penchrise, £55 Kirkland.

Lleyn - £68 Glenkiln.

North Country Cheviot - £62, £61 Meikledale.

Swaledale - £60 Border Rigg, £52 East Stobbylea.

Charollais - £60 Haithwaite.

Shearlings

Texel - £108, £102, £88, £86 Dunjop.

Greyface - £98, £90 Shielsknowe, £76 Routin Lynn.

Hill Cheviot - £96 Wyliesbrae, £90 Dun-Mor, £80 Tyrone House.

Swaledale - £94 Border Rigg.

Charollais - £86 Haithwaite.

Blackface - £64 Tyrone House.

Ewe lambs

Texel - £102, £96, £84, £76 Kirkton, £70 Glendearg and Winshield.

Greyface - £77 Macherquhat, £75 Barsalloch, £72 Ramshope and Balmurrie, £70 The Row and Barsalloch.

Cheviot Mule - £76 Embley, £75 Crosslee.

North Country Cheviot - £72 North Synton.

Suffolk - £69 Nethertofts.

Hill Cheviot - £61, £59, £56 Cooms.

Blackface - £55 Embley, £48 Ralston Side, £44 Culter Allers.

Swaledale £42 East Stobbylea.