Longtown Breeding Sheep Tuesday 16 June 2026
C & D Auction Marts held their weekly sale of Breeding Sheep at Longtown on Tuesday 16th June
Ewes and lambs, a smaller show forward on the week as we start to come to the end of the season, with a plainer show of ewes on offer with younger lambs at foot. Topping the sale was a Dutch Spotted ewe with a pair of ewe lambs at foot realising £170 per life from E C Chaplin, Kilry Lodge.
Ewes & Lambs
Dutch Spotted– £170 Kilry Lodge
Mule– £165, £162 Ardoch
Texel- £165 Dundraw
Cheviot Mule– £132 Auchenleck
Suffolk– £122 Low Greenley Cleugh
Blackface– £115 Parkhill
Lonk– £98 Low Greenley Cleugh
A larger show of hoggs and lambs forward. Topping the sale for a fantastic pen of Texel cross hoggs with Texel lambs at foot from RJ Muir, Towlaw realising £168 per life. With the overall average of £150 per life being £16 up on year.
Hoggs & Lambs
Texel– £168, £165, £160, £155 Low Stanley farm
Suffolk– £142 Kirkhope
