Longtown Store & Breeding Sheep Sale Report

C&D Auction Marts Ltd had a small entry of ewes with lambs at foot, a great show of quality forward in abundance and vendors well rewarded on Tuesday 5th April 2022.

The highlight of the sale was again the run of pure Texel ewes and lambs from Billy Bell, Kinninghall, who’s run of aged Texel ewes and lambs topped at £135 a life and averaged £112.71.

Many more are required to meet buyers’ requirements.

Principal Prices

Ewes with single lamb at foot

Texel £135, £125, £102 Kinninghall, £92 High Acres.

Ewes with twin lambs at foot

Texel £118, £116, £102 Kinninghall, £97, £90 High House.

Suffolk £104, £88 High House.

Shearlings with single lamb at foot

Texel £104, £86 Eastfield Farm Cottages.

Kerry Hill £80 Eastfield Farm Cottages.

Geld Ewe Hoggs

Texel £132, £129, £125, £124, £121 Errington Red House.

Continental £122 Errington Red House.

Mule £119 Errington Red House.

STORE SHEEP

582 store hoggs, feeding ewes & cast rams were forward

A seasonal show of hoggs met a strong selling trade at increased rates, with numbers well short of buyers’ requirements.

Top £120 for Texels from Spittal Ridding Hill, Annan, others to £118 Broomhills, £117 The Gall; Beltexs to £118 Broomhills; Suffolks to £116 Hopestead, £110 Broomhills; Greyfaces to £105 Southdean; Hill Cheviots to £95, £87 Bloch; Blackfaces to £81 Glenkiln Farms; Jacobs to £65 Gall; Herdwicks to £70 Whinney Knowe.

Feeding ewes to £150, £140, £138 for Texels from Windy Hill (Weatherley); Greyfaces to £127 Gall, who also sold Cheviots at £93; Suffolks to £121 Windy Hill (Weatherley).