Longtown Store & Breeding Sheep Sale Report

C&D Auction Marts had forward 1,276 Scottish Lowland breeding sheep and 6,901 Scottish  store lambs, feeding ewes and cast rams at their weekly sale at Longtown on Tuesday 9th September 2025.

Topping the Gimmer trade was noted vendor W J & J G Bell, Kinninghall, Arbourlaw, Hawick who sold pure bred Texels to £410, in which this run of pure Texels averaged £332. Suffolk gimmers topped at £300 for a pure Suffolk from W J & J G Bell, Kinninghall, Arbourlaw, Hawick. Mules sold to a very buoyant trade topping at £235 by W J & J G Bell, Kinninghall, Arbourlaw, Hawick. A fantastic run of Suffolk cross and Texel cross ewe lambs were on offer from Philiphaugh Estate, averaging £189 topping at £195 for 18 tremendously bred Suffolk cross ewe lambs.

PRINCIPAL PRICES
Breeding Sheep
Ewes
Texel - £255 Braehead, £250 Knock, £230 Castle Garth, £230 Barrascroft, £225 Muirside, £225 Lossit Home, £210 & £205 Muirside, £205 Knock
Suffolk - £230 (x2) & £205 (x2) Muirside
Cheviot Mule - £180 Castle Garth
Cross - £172 & £170 Lossit Home, £168 & £165 Muirside, £165 (x2) Lossit Home, £165 Muirside, £160 Chapel
Zwartable - £155 Knock
North Country Cheviot - £90, £85 & £82 Accurrach
Blackface - £70 Accurrach
Shetland - £56 Accurrach

Gimmers
Texel - £410 & £390  Kinninghall, £380 Mainside, £360 & £350 (x2), The Bungalow, £330 & £300 Kinninghall, £300 The Bungalow, £300 Mainside
Suffolk - £300 & £250 Kinninghall, £225 Castle Garth, £225, £215 & £210 Knock
Cross - £235 Kinninghall, £175 Lossit, £165 Chapel

Ewe Lambs
Suffolk - £195, £192 & £190 Philiphaugh
Texel - £182 Philiphaugh

A larger show of store sheep forward on the week. A much larger entry of longer keep lambs forward with a shortage of short keep lambs. Many new faces appearing around the ringside took advantage of the numbers of store sheep placed in front of them.  Topping today were a pen of Texels from I Thompson, Newbiggin realising  £137.

Here at Longtown Auction Mart we held our first Cheviot & Blackface store lamb sale with a show of 1,000 Cheviots and 1,129 Blackfaces, topping the Cheviot section was a pen of lambs from Tanlaw Hill, Lyneholm House realising £122. Topping the Blackface section was a pen of Blackface tup lambs from D Mcwhirter, Kirkton Drive realising £108.

Store Lambs
Suffolk  - £140 Tarrasfoot, £121 Laverhay, £118 Shaw of Dryfe, £118 North Hermitage, £113 Meinbank, £110 Newbiggin, £105 Low Tirfergus, £105 Newbiggin
Texel - £137 Newbiggin, £127 Campbell Cottage, Newbiggin and Ruighe Beag, £126 Campbell Cottage, £126 & £124 Newbiggin
Beltex - £131 (x3) Sorbie
North Country Cheviot - £122 Lyneholm, £107 The Shaws, £100 Boreland
Cheviot Mule - £116 Skelfhill, £102 Corran, £100 Lyneholm
Charollais - £114 Justenlees
Cross - £114 & £110 Newbiggin
Blue Texel - £113 Ruighe Beag
Cheviot - £110, £105 Megdale, £105 Wooplaw, £102 High Chesters House
Roussin - £104 Boreland
Dutch Spot - £100 East Mains
Blackface - £86 SRUC Kirkton, £80 Selcoth
Welsh - £76 SRUC Kirkton
Shetland - £64 Upper Rigg

Tup Lambs
Beltex - £130 Carse
Texel - £124 Cnoc Na Riabhach, £122 Campbell Cottage, £116 Sannox, £101 The Mark
Suffolk - £119 Howcleugh, £112 North Hermitage
Blackface - £108 Kirkton Drive
North Country Cheviot - £106 Boreland
Shetland - £82 SRUC Kirkton
Cheviot - £81 Hampden, £81 (x2) & £80 Shaw of Dryfe
Cross - £79 Campbell Cottage

A much larger show off feeding ewes forward met by several new faces looking for feeders all classes dearer on the week. Numbers needed each week to fulfil buyers demand.

Feeding Ewes
Texel - £180 Robmar, £170 & £150 Low Tirfergus, £134 Robmar, £130 Beauly
Cheviot Mule - £142 Robmar, £138 Beauly, £122 Robmar
North Country Cheviot - £114 White Knowe, £108 (x2) Robmar
Cross - £106 SRUC Kirkton
Suffolk - £100 White Knowe
Blackface - £93 Keppoch, £90 SRUC Kirkton
Cheviot - £86 & £82 Milsington
Shetland - £56 Beauly

Rams
Blackface - £85 & £80 Selcoth