Longtown Store & Breeding Sheep Sale Reports

C & D Auction Marts held their weekly sale of 1235 Breeding sheep, Store hoggs and Feeding sheep at Longtown on Tuesday 15th April 2025.

Ewes and lambs go up a gear again with buyers flooding around the ring side, ensuring every outfit was highly contended for. Topping the ring today was a tremendous first cross Texel ewe with a single Texel lamb at foot, realising £142 per life from Robert Tweddle, Kirkandrews Moat. The majority of the sale consisted of Mule ewes, regularly selling between £115 to £130 per life.

Breeding Sheep

Ewes with Singles

Texel - £140 Moss Kennels, £130 Crossings Cottage, £110 Inch

Mules - £130 Morwood, £120 (x2) Crossings Cottage

Ewes with Twins

Texel - £142 5 Kirkandrews Moat, £120 Moss Kennels, £120 Newhope

Mules - £138 & £130 Kinninghall, £130 & £125 Morwood, £118 5 Kirkandrews Moat

Beltex - £120 Newhope

Cheviot - £110 & £105 East Cottage

Shetland - £70 5 Kirkandrews Moat

Store hoggs numbers (828). A end of season show on offer today with a lot of cleaning up consignments forward. However, strong feeding hoggs were still in strong demand and very easily sold; topping the sale with 6 fantastic Texel cross hoggs from Tattersall Farming, Bellbank realising £152.

Store Hoggs

Texel - £152 Bellbank, £150 & £148 Justenlees, £146 Woodhill, £144 Meikleholm, £140 Cooilingel, £140 Woodhill

Suffolk - £150 Cooilingel, £146 Woodhill, £139 High Floweryhirst, £136 Woodhill, £128 High Floweryhirst, £126 Meikleholm, £115 The Firs, £105 Cooilingel

Blackface - £142 & £118 Meikleholm, £116 Shankston, £112  & £110 Woodhill

Dorest - £135 Justenlees

Cross - £134 Woodhill, £130 Cooilingel, £116 Shankston, £108 Meikleholm

Beltex - £122 High Floweryhirst

Cheviot - £120 Falnash, £108 Alton, £108 The Heugh

Kerryhill - £110 Woodhill

Herdwick - £78, £54 & £47 Racy Ghyll

Easycare - £60 & £54 Cooilingel

Tup Lamb

Chevoit - £138 Blackhall, £129 Falnash

Cross - £114 Foulsyke

Feeding sheep were in very high demand with a very limited show of numbers on offer. Many more could have been sold to vendors advantage. Top price was two Texel cross ewes making £192 from M W Furlong & Co, Ridley Farm.

Feeding Ewes

Texel - £192, £150 Ridley

Blue Leicester - £185 & £145 Woodhill

Suffolk - £165 Meikleholm

Beltex  - £138 Shankston

Cross - £128 Ridley

Cheviot - £124 Meikleholm, £120 Dalhanna

Swaledale - £120 Woodhill

Blackface - £114 & £76 Shankston

Feeding Rams

Charollais - £180 Wasdale Head Hall

Texel - £180 Beckstones, £178 Meikleholm

Cheviot - £168 Wasdale Head Hall, £140 Falnash

Herdwick - £130 Wasdale Head Hall