Longtown Store & Breeding Sheep Sale Report

Store Hoggs reached £173 at C & D Auction Marts, Longtown’s weekly Store Sheep Sale on Tuesday 2nd April 2024, for Beltex hoggs consigned from F W & J Armstrong, Netherhirst.

A very mixed show of store hoggs forward with the whole sale averaging £108.

More store sheep wanted for next week’s sale to fulfil buyers demands. Please contact Daniel Lynn on 07584 200489

Beltex - £173 Netherhirst, £154 & £148 Mains of Collin, £152 & £150 Wark House
Texel - £170 & £146 Netherhirst, £148 & £144 Wark House, £140 Moss Kennels, £140 Laughtmuirside, £136 Palmer Hill, £135 Lossit
Suffolk - £158 Wark House, £130 Mains of Collin
Cheviot - £154 & £153 Netherhirst, £152, £146 & £136 Bloch, £136 Dancing Beck
Cross - £152, £138 & £136 Palmer Hill, £142 Mains of Collin, £140 Wark House, £136 The Hagg
Blackface - £140 & 130 Mains of Collin, £136 & £100 Laughtmuirside, £119 & £108 Bassenthwaite, £118 & £104 Collin Bank, £112 & £108 High Creoch, £104
NCC - £128 Archbank, £113 Burnfoot of Ewes, £110 Dunterley, £103 Meikle Whitriggs
Chev.m - £118 Pilmuir, £112 Wark House
Herdwick - £108 Holebeck
Easycare - £96 Glenlea
Swaledale - £92 Palmer, £78 Thorny Bank

Feeding Ewes topped at £146 from cheviots from F W & J Armstrong, Netherhirst.

Cheviots - £146 Netherhirst
Texel - £142 x2, £136 & £130 Mallsburn, £120 Torbhlaren
Suffolk - £130 Mallsburn
Beltex - £125 Glenlea
Cross - £125 Torbhlaren, £123 Wadley  
EasyCare - £120 Glenlea

Cast Tups topped at £178 for 3 Suffolk Tups from Meikle Whitriggs.

Suffolk - £178 Meikle Whitriggs
NCC - £150 Meikle Whitriggs
Easy Care - £106 Glenlea

BREEDING SHEEP

In- Lamb Ewes

In- Lamb ewes topped today at £104 for a pen of 3 to 4 crop Swaledale ewes from
P L Lightburn, Thorney Bank who dispersed all his Swale Ewes and Ewe Hoggs to average £86.

Ewes & Lambs

Ewes and Lambs topped at £135 a life for an aged Hampshire ewe with a ewe lamb at foot from D Bell & Son, Hoddomtown.

Ewes and lambs wanted for next weeks sale with growing demand every week. Please contact Daniel Lynn on 07584200489