Longtown Store & Breeding Sheep Sale Report

C&D Auction Marts Ltd had forward 6,526 store lambs and feeding ewes at Longtown on Tuesday 27th October 2020.

Another large entry easily met the dearest trade of the season with numbers inadequate for the very strong demand. Top £100, £96, £91, £88 for Texel lambs from Boreland, others to £87 Greenwell Meadows, £86 Embley; Beltex to £85 Sorbie, £81 Greenwell Meadows; Dutch Texels to £79 Greenside; Suffolks to £85 Boreland, £82.50 Tarrasfoot; Greyfaces to £79, £78 Embley, £77.50 Stone House, £75 Penpeugh; Cheviot Mules to £75 LH Farming; Roussins to £79 Boreland; Kendal Roughs to £66 Gill Head; Zwartbles to £60 Little Mark; Shetlands to £62 Meikle Whitriggs; Swaledales to £42 Laverhay.

Feeding ewes (364) to £92 for Texels from Boreland. Hill ewes to £70 for Cheviots from Windyhaugh; Blackfaces to £55 Achavenish. Cast rams to £100 Achavenish.

Cheviots (1,947) a remarkable trade with best lambs selling over £70 to a top of £79 and £77 for Hill Cheviots from Solwaybank, others to £74 Boreland, £69 Twislehope & Sundhope. North Country Cheviots to £70 from Caulside & Bank Head.

A tremendous show of 2,051 Blackfaces met a trade second to none, with many pens selling over £70 to a top of £75 from Halterburnhead & Lanehead, others to £72.50 Collin Bank, £72 The Hott, £71.50 Horseholme. The overall average for Blackfaces was £59.96.

BREEDING SHEEP

C&D Auction Marts Ltd held their late season show of 961 breeding sheep. All classes sold to a keen ring of bidders with a 100% clearance.

Selling to a top of £200 x 2 firstly for North Country Cheviot rams from HH & A Swanson, Tister, Caithness and also for an aged Charollais ram from PA MacKay, 6 Forss, Caithness and then to £118 for three crop North Country Cheviot ewes from JS & SN Hislop, Windyhaugh.

Ewes

North Country Cheviot £118, £94, £80 Windyhaugh.

Texel £106, £94, £92 Port O Spittal, £104 Burnside, £92 Sleetbeck Road.

Mule £88, £84 Kirkhouse.

Blackface £74 Gillalees, £68 Earlshaugh, £66, £65 Carnasserie, £64 Ardnacross.

Shearlings

Mule £118, £110, £108 Dale House.

Texel £92 Oakwoodhill.

Herdwick £82 Romanway.

Ewe Lambs

Cheviot Mule £84 Gillesbie.

Mule £82 Barron House & Haliburton, £78 Low Stokoe.

Texel £80 Broomhills.

North Country Cheviot £70 Bradley.

Shearling Rams

North Country Cheviot £200, £200, £150 Tister.

Suffolk £150 6 Forss.

Aged Rams

Charollais £200 6 Forss.

Texel £120 6 Forss.