Longtown Store & Breeding Sheep Sale Report

C&D Auction Marts held their weekly sale of 1,012 ewes and hoggs with lambs at foot at Longtown on Tuesday 6th June 2023.

Quality and strength were in short supply, proving very good to sell whilst longer term outfits were harder to cash. Topping at £120/life for a powerful texel shearling with a pair of April born lambs at foot (£360), consigned by M/S M Smith, Mount Farm, Blackford, Carlisle.

Hoggs & Lambs

A strong show for the time of year topping at £128/life (£256) for a tidy pen of first cross Texel hoggs with Dutch Texel lambs at foot consigned by M/S Gibson, Thornton Tower, Hexham who sold others to £118      

For all further enquiries please contact John Walton 07880 527066 who will be pleased to take your calls.

PRICES

Ewes with Single Lambs

Mule £102 Towlaw

Cheviot Mule £80 Bank Farm

Cheviot £69 Girnwood, £61 Longrigg

Blackface £62 Bayles

Ewes with Twin Lambs

Texel £104 Bayles, £85 £80 Towlaw

Mule £94 Moss side, £90 Howberry, £81 £80 Towlaw

Blue Faced Leicister £75 Tecket

Cheviot £73 Girnwood

Blackface £59 Bayles

Shearlings with Single Lambs

Mule £86 Tolaw

Blue Faced Lecister £72 Tecket

Badgerface £63 The Edge

Shearlings with Twin Lambs

Texel £120 Mount Farm, £92 Bayles

Mule £80 Tecket

Hoggs with Single Lambs

Texel £128 £118 £112 Thornton Tower, £113 Mount Farm

Mule £111 Mouldyhill, £108 £103 x2 Seat Hill