Longtown Store & Breeding Sheep Sale Report

C & D Auction Marts held their weekly sale of Breeding sheep, Store hoggs and Feeding sheep at Longtown on Tuesday 27th May 2025.

Hoggs and lambs (124) top at £158 for a pen of Texel cross hoggs with Beltex cross lambs at foot from R G Hutchinson, Bayles Farm.

Ewes and lambs (202) a leaner show of ewes forward with later born lambs at foot. Topping today was a fantastic pen of Texel cross ewes with Texel lambs at foot realising £130 for K E White & Partners, Morwood Farm.

Breeding Sheep

Ewes with Singles
Suffolk - £152 & £140 Bayles
Texel - £130 Northway, £115 Crossings Cottage, £110 Great Easby

Mules - £122 Swinside Townfoot, £85 Northway, £82 Low Old Shields
North Country Cheviot - £80 & £78 Crossings Cottage, £52 Blackwood Bridge House

Ewes with Twins
Texel - £115 Northway, £112 Great Easby, £112 Swinside Townfoot, £105 Crossings Cottage
Cheviot - £100 Crossings Cottage
Mules - £98 Dykeside, £98 Great Easby, £88 25 Northway, £88 Moss Side
Jacob - £72 Dykeside

Hoggs with Singles
Texel - £158 Bayles, £148 & £145 Shitlington
Cheviot Mule - £155, £154 & £145 Swinside Townfoot
Zwartbles - £102 Bayles

 

Store hogg numbers (92) a sweeping up show of store hoggs on offer.

Store Hoggs

Texel - £110 Cowden Burn, £89 Kirndean, £86 Cowden Burn, £84 & £80 Kirndean
Cross - £84 Cowden Burn
Swaledale - £78 Park House
Blackface - £68 Cowden Burn
Easycare - £68 Leahaugh
Herdwick - £52 Boathouse Cottage

Tup Hoggs

Shetland - £52 Woodhall

 

Feeding sheep (28) a small offering of feeding ewes remain in high demand.

Feeding Ewes

Easycare - £122 Leahaugh
Bluefaced Leicester - £116 Peat Gap
Swaledale - £72 Parkhouse
Cheviot - £64 Woodhall
Texel - £60 Woodhall

Feeding Rams

Blackface - £104 Cowden Burn