Longtown Store & Breeding Sheep Sale Report

C & D Auction Marts held their weekly sale of 5,231 Store Lambs on Tuesday 13th August 2024.

A large show of store lambs forward with a lot of longer keep lambs on offer, a total sale average of £103. Topping the sale at £150 per head for a pen of Beltex lambs from CJ Roots, Kilnford Croft. Suffolk lambs topped at £146 from CR Graham & Sons, Carruthers Farm. Texels topped at £149 from Archbank Farming

Many more well-bred lambs are needed to fulfil the ever-growing purchaser demand here at Longtown. Please do not hesitate to contact our auctioneers for enquires or entries. Sales are held weekly and lambs can definitely be sold to vendors advantage.

Daniel Lynn 07584 200489

John Walton 07880 527066

Store Lambs

Beltex - £150, £128 Kilnford Croft, £138, £124 Goslingmire, £135, £126 Middle Farm, £128 Greenwell, £127, £124 Howard House, £122 Intake

Texel - £149, £147, £137, £130 Archbank, £144 Garriestown, £140 Shepherds Cottage, £139, £135 Tarrasfoot, £138, £126 Causey View, £136, £130 Cowden, £135 Hawthorn, £134 Greenwell, £133 White Knowe, £130 Intake, £128, £114 Berach Estate, £126 Gillesbie, £118 Borthwick Mains

Suffolk - £146, £136 Carruthers, £139 Hepplehill, £138 Hullerbank, £136 Kelsocleugh, £136 Ragithwhaite, £135 Culfargie Estates, £132 Cut Thorn, £128, £122 Haliburton, £128 Cumstone, £124 Philiphaugh, £122 Hawthorn Bank, £121 Grindon Hill

Cross - £142 Haliburton, £117, £104 Orthwaite Hall, £113 The Row, £112 Embley, £112 Crindledykes, £107 Harehead, £105 Pennygowan

North Country Cheviot - £130x2, £116, £115 Cut Thorn

Dutch Spotted - £128, £118 Hartree Mill, £114, £105 Solway Bank

Cheviot Mule - £124 White Knowe, £116 Philiphaugh, £114, £112 West Lodge, £109 Skelfhill

Blackface - £108 Embley

Charollais - £107 Causey View

Shetland - £82, £72 Kelsocleugh

Kerry Hill - £81 Scobshaugh

Breed Averages

Beltex - £118.90

Suffolk - £108.50

Texel - £106.25

Dutch Spotted - £103.11

Cheviot Mule - £101

Cross - £96.10

North Country Cheviot - £92.30

Blackface - £59.47

A smaller selection of feeding ewes forward met a sharper trade with plenty of purchasers on the hunt for feeding sheep many more could have been sold to vendor’s advantage. Topping today at £160  were Texel ewes from L Mcivor, Hartree Mill.

Feeding Ewes

Texel - £160, £150, £140, £118 Hartree Mill, £130, £120 Powheads

Suffolk - £130 Powheads

Blackface - £76 The Hagg, £72 Beinn Dorian Ltd, £70 Pennygowan

Swaledale - £62 The Hagg