Longtown Store & Breeding Sheep Sale Reports

C&D Auction Marts Ltd had forward 2,020 store hoggs, feeding ewes and cast rams at their weekly sale at Longtown on Tuesday 1st April 2025.

Store hoggs keep on coming with a larger show forward (1,818) dearer again on the week with a plainer show on offer. Topping the sale was a fantastic Park Cheviot ewe hogg from C Maclarty, The Homestead, Realising £175. Stronger end of hoggs regularly sold away between £135 to £150.

Principal prices:-

Cheviot - £175 The Homestead, £134 Rowhead, £130 The Homestead, £126 Raggiewhat, £124 Raehills.

Texel -  £158 Little Swinburne and Wanwood Hill, £148 Wanwood Hill, £145 Ardacheranmor, £144 Ballafayle, £140 Hallburn, £139 Little Swinburne.

Suffolk - £148 Rigfoot, £141 Oliver Road, £140 Rigfoot and Wanwood Hill, £138 Rigfoot, £134 Cooilingel.

Cheviot Mule - £148, £122 Keppochan

Greyface - £144 Hallburn, £142 Gartvaigh, £138 Rigfoot, £136 Belsay, £132 Garpel Farm and Oliver Road, £130 Cooilingel.

Blackface - £132 Wanwood Hill, £129 Ardentraive, £121 Garpel Farm, £118 Ballafayle, £116 Reddis Hall and Wanwood Hill, £114 Garpel Farm.

Easycare - £108 Reddis Hall.

Herdwick - £72 Rowhead.

Swaledale - £57 Cooilingel, £56 Ballaskry.

A slightly larger show of 202 feeding ewes and cast rams were on offer this week. Top price of the day went to S Sloane, Birch Drive making £185 of a pen of Texel cross ewes.

Principal prices:-

Ewes

Texels - £185 Birch Drive, £170 Little Swinburne, £160 Shaw Cottage South.

Romney - £136 Ballaquinnea Beg.

Suffolk - £133, £121 Shaw Cottage South.

Cheviot - £132 Archbank, £125 Raehils, £108 Archbank.

Greyface - £96 Ballaquinnea Beg and Little Swinburne.

Blackface - £90 High Croach, £86 Ballaquinnea Beg, £84 Collin Bank. 

Swaledale - £76 Park House, £70 Peat Gap.

Cast Rams

Beltex - £185, £165 Little Swinburne.

Bluefaced Leicester - £175 Little Swinburne.

Cheviot - £148, £130 East Redfordgreen.

Blackface - £110 Wanwood Hill.

BREEDING SHEEP

A small offering of ewes with lambs this week topping at £132 per life for Suffolk ewes with Suffolk lambs at foot from R Fair, Crocketford.

Ewes & Lambs

Suffolk x - £132, £95 Fairhill

Zwartbles x - £82 Woodburn.

Shearlings & Lambs

Zwartbles x - £72 Woodburn.