Longtown Store & Breeding Sheep Tuesday 19 May 2026
C & D Auction Marts held their weekly sale of 217 Store Hoggs and 1,102 Breeding Sheep at Longtown on Tuesday 19th May 2026
Ewe Hogg
Mule– £170 Dirnow Farm
Texel– £150 Dirnow Farm
A larger show of ewes and lambs forward seen to dearer rate of return on the week with a wholesale average of £120 per life. With grass starting to appear purchasers on the look for numbers of outfits.
Ewes & Lambs
Texel– £180, £175, £165 Quarry House, £160 Swinside
Mule– £134 Stanger Hill, £128 Moss Side
Dutch Spotted-£130 Effgill Farm, £126 Low Greenley
Cheviot Mule– £128, £125 Tile Sheds
Cheviot– £128 North House, £118 Effgill, £115 High Keenley Fell, £114 Effgill
Blue Faced Leicester– £120 Swinside, £108 Stooprigg
Badgerface– £100 Rainors
Blackface– £100, £88 Foregirth
Jacob– £95 Pardovan, £80 Dykeside
Swaledale– £60 Fir Trees
Shearlings & Lambs
Texel– £120 Swinside
Jacob– £75 Hillside
Show Results
Judge: Mr Jim Peden, Tara
Class one: 10 Mule hoggs with lambs a foot
1st– Clickam Farm, £190
2nd– Clickham Farm, £202
3rd– J Nicholson, Old Police House, £165
Class Two: 5 Texel hoggs with lambs at foot
1st– Parkin, Higher Dviesdyke, £185
2nd– Ridley, Shitlington Hall, £185
3rd– Ridley, Shhitlington Hall £180
Class Three: 5 Suffolk hoggs with lambs at foot
1st -Taylor, The Harras, £172
A big thank you to Jim Peden, Tara for coming to judge the second show and sale of hoggs with lambs at foot, certainly not a easy job and a credit must go to all vendors for displaying such a fantastic show of outfit forward for the sale, top end of hoggs dearer on the week with commercial family’s seen to recent rates of return.
Hoggs & Lambs
Mule– £202, £190 Clickham, £165 Old Police House, £160 Mount Farm
Texel– £188 Mount Farm, £185 Shitlington Hall & Higher Daviesdyke, £180 Shitlington Hall, £170 Linton Bank Head
Suffolk– £172 The Harras, £160 Hillisde
Blue Faced Leicester– £145 Mount Farm
Dutch Spotted– £130 Hillside
Cheviot– £85 Dockray Hill
Store hoggs still coming forward with purchasers still around ring side looking for numbers of feeding sheep. An end of season show on offer seen to high rates of return.
STORE HOGGS
Texel– £200 Mosshill, £188 White Knowe, £180, £174 Kirkbride
Mule – £155 Over Ciarn, £152 Hamburn Hall
Suffolk– £150 Mosshill
Beltex– £140 The Throp
Cheviot– £140 Tanlawhill Farming, £126 Kirkbride Farm, £125 White Knowe
Cheviot Mule– £124 High Townhead
Dutch Spotted– £100 Whiteknowe
A larger show of feeding ewes on offer holding very much the same high rates of return as last week with a strong present around ring side looking for feeding ewes.
FEEDING EWES
Texel– £220, £190, £175, £165 Tara
Cheviot Mule– £168 Archbank
Mule– £150 Tara
Cheviot– £145 White Knowe, £140 Over Cairn, £140 Archbank
Blackface– £82 Mosshill
Swaledale– £78 Over Cairn
CAST RAMS
Texel– £170 Over Cairn
A small select show of store cattle were forward today at Longtown. Freshly spaned suckled calves topped the sale today at £1,440 for Hereford x bullocks shown by J Johnstone, North Howes, Annan. The next sale is Tuesday 16th June – catalogue sale of store cattle and breeding cattle alongside the society supported Pedigree Beef Shorthorn sale.
