Longtown Store & Breeding Sheep Sale Report

C & D Auction Marts held their weekly sale of 3335 Store Sheep, along with 689 Scottish Breeding Sheep Sale at Longtown on Tuesday 12th August 2025.

A fantastic show of breeding sheep were on offer to a packed ring of buyers from up and down the country.

Whole-sale breeding average of £221, all in , with gimmers averaging £230 for 689 sold. The sale topped twice at £400, firstly from WJ & JG Bell, Kinninghall for two pedigree Dutch Spotted gimmers and also from Lawson, Bank House for a pen of four stylish pure Suffolk Gimmers.

Breeding Ewes
Dorp - £130 Bank House
Texel - £120 Bank House

Gimmers
Dutch Spotted - £400 & £350 Kinninghall
Suffolk - £400, £330 & £320 Bank House
Texel - £380 (x2) Kinninghall, £310 Bank house, £310 & £300 Kinninghall, £300 Bank House
Cheviot Mule - £250 Bank House, £230 Newton
Half-Bred - £245 Newton
Blue Leicester - £235, £200 Bank House
Mule - £220 & £170 Bank House
Beltex - £205 Auchentaggart
Dorset - £162 Bank House, £150 Moor Side
North Country Cheviot - £155 Bank House
Jacob - £150 Bank House
Kerry Hill- £150 Bank House

Ewe Lambs
Suffolk - £148 Kilnford Croft

Ewes & Lambs
Texel - £290 Bank House
Jacob- £105 Bank House
Dorp - £65 Bank House

Shearlings & Lambs
North Country Cheviot - £125 Bank House
Texel - £115 Bank House

A larger show of store lambs were presented to an increased ringside of buyers, ensuring all classes were dearer on the week. The majority of the sale being long -term keeping lambs.

Whole-sale store average of £102 , topping at £156 for a pair of Texel from Jardine, Solwaybank Cottage.

Lambs
Texel - £156 Solway Bank, £154 Burnhead, £145 Skelfhill
Suffolk - £144 Haliburton, £142 Escart, £137 Monklaw, £135 Burnhead, £132 Outer Huntly
Cheviot Mule - £141 Monklaw, £135 Caverswood, £130 Skelfhill
Oxford - £136 Haliburton
Mule - £120 Harehead, £118 Ardacheranmor, £115 Haliburton, £115 107 Ralston
Blackface - £118 Low Tirfergus, £116 Haliburton
North Country Cheviot - £114 Monklaw, £110 Old Post Office
Jacob - £92 & £86 12 Pardovan
Dutch Spot - £85 28 Briery Square

Tup Lambs
Texel - £108 Sannox Estate
Mule - £99 Low Tirfergus
Suffolk - £99 Haliburton
Cheviot Mule - £90 Haliburton
North Country Cheviot - £88 White Knowe

Feeding ewe trade on fire with more purchasers on hunt for feeding sheep, many more feeders could have been sold to vendors advantage.

Ewes
Mule - £128 Low Tirfergus, £90 4 Wellpark
Texel - £126 The Flat
North Country Cheviot - £100 Low Tirfergus
Cheviot Mule - £91 The Flat
Blackface - £86 Low Tirfergus, £80 The Flat