Longtown Store & Breeding Sheep Tuesday 31 March 2026
C & D Auction Marts held their weekly sale of 1,711 Store Hoggs and 183 Breeding Sheep at Longtown on Tuesday 31st March 2026
A slightly larger offering of ewes and lambs forward selling to unbelievable rates of return, with a Suffolk cross ewe with a Blue Texel ewe lamb at foot realising £720 per life. Closely followed by a Texel cross ewe with a Badger Face ewe lamb at foot making £700 per life. Many more outfits of ewes and lambs needed each week going forward to fulfil buyers ever growing demand.
Wholesale average of £158 per life.
BREEDING SHEEP
Ewes with Lambs
Suffolk– £720 Dalwyne
Texel– £700, £520, £450 Dalwyne
Blackface– £90 Newtonhill
Shearlings & Lambs
Badgerface– £300 Dalwyne
Mule– £145 Satley
Texel– £118 Newtonhill
A slightly smaller show of store hoggs forward jumping to another gear with some hoggs being £20 up on the week. A lot of short keep hoggs way above £170. Sale topped at £190 for a pen of Suffolk cross hoggs from Messrs Millar, High Cattadale, Argyllshire. Many more hoggs needed each week to fulfil buyers ever growing demand.
Wholesale average of £134
STORE HOGGS
Texel – £190 Riverside, £184 High Cattadale & Cherry Tree, £182 Ballywilline & High Cattadale, £180 Riverside, £178 Moss House & Cherry Tree
Suffolk– £190, £184 High Cattadale, £184, £182 Riverside, £180 Mosser Gate, £170 High Cattadale
Mule – £176 Gartvaigh, £164 Drumgrange, £150 Gartvaigh & High Cattadale, £146 Riverside, £142 Gartvaigh
Romney– £166, £156, £148 Riverside
Herdwick– £162, £140 Broadwath Hall, £122 Midpark
Blackface– £159 Home Farm , £148 Silloans, £146 Ardacheranmor, £142 Drumgrange, £138 Blarghour, £134 Corsencon
Easy Care– £148 Whitchesters
Cheviot– £148 Dalhanna, £148 Bloch, £145, £140 Ellary Estate, £130 Romanway
Swaledale– £138 Stooprigg
Blue Faced Leicester– £130 Stooprigg
Beltex– £118 Low Brooms
Shetland– £90 Port
Goat– £90 Cleughead
Tup Hoggs
Blackface– £168, £160 Corrow, £150 Drumgrange, £142 Riverside
Texel– £168 Tecket
Cheviot– £160 Bloch, £140 Carlenrigg
Dutch Spotted– £140 Bloch
Blue Faced Leicester– £128 Stooprigg
Wether Shearling
Swaledale– £132 Mosser Gate
Feeding ewes of all classes jump a gear again this week with more purchasers on the lookout for feeding sheep, large numbers can be handled with ease. Sale topped at £195 for a pen of Texel ewes from David McKendrick, High Dalrioch.
FEEDING EWES
Texel– £195 High Dalrioch, £176, £174 Ardacheranmor, £154 Low Brooms, £145 High Dalrioch, £140 Riverside
Mule– £154 Moorhills, £142 Hazelton Rigg, £140 Mosser Gate, £138 Ballochgair, £120 Hazelton Rigg
Blackface– £148 Corrow, £142, £130 Hazelton Rigg, £128 Balrghour
Herdwick– £138 Riverside
Romney– £138 Riverside
Cheviot Mule– £132 Low Brooms
Hill Cheviot– £128 Ifferdale
Swaledale– £122 Mosser Gate
CAST RAMS
Blackface– £180 Dalwyne
Blue Faced Leicester– £174 Mosser Gate, £168 Branthwaite
Cheviot– £170 Broadwath Hall
