Longtown Store & Breeding Sheep Sale Report

C&D Auction Marts had forward a smaller show of ewes with lambs at foot, on Tuesday 11th May 2021, which saw outfits well bid for, realising their full value here in the ring at Longtown.

With several customers present, the sale topped at £122 a life for a pen of huge Texel x hoggs with lambs from Messrs Slaven, Foregirth.

Ewes with single lamb

Dorset £101 Leathorn.

Texel £90, £88 Rosebank Crescent.

Beltex £90, £81 Glasson.

Mule £78 Low Closegill.

Suffolk £77 Pilmuir.

Charollais £71 Leathorn.

Ewes with twin lambs

Texel £92, £79 Wallend, £75 Pilmuir & Low Closegill.

Mule £83 Ryecroft, £75 The Croft, £73 Low Closegill.

Charollais £80 Leathorn.

Beltex £80 Glasson.

Cheviot Mule £77, £76 North House.

Suffolk £71 Hallrule Mill.

Jacob £55 Rosebank Crescent.

Swaledale £48 Pilmuir

Shearlings with single lamb

Texel £85 Fell View, £84 Low Closegill.

Mule £76 Whitehouse.

Shearlings with twin lambs

Texel £85 Whitehouse.

Hoggs with single lamb

Texel £122 Foregirth, £120 Crosshill, £106 & £105 Whitehouse.

Mule £100 & £99 Hallmyre.

For the time of year, a good entry of 288 store hoggs and feeding ewes met another strong trade for all classes.

Top £110 for Suffolks from Drinkstone; Dutch Texels to £106 Coalfell; Greyfaces to £105 Triermain, £94 & £93 Edston; Texels to £102 Triermain, £98 Spency Croft, £94 Drinkstone.

Feeding ewes met a buoyant trade. Top £96 for a Beltex from Coalfell; Greyfaces to £93 Edston; Cheviots to £80 Leafield, who also sold Blackfaces to £56; Herdwicks to £61 Bonnyrigg Hall.