Longtown Store & Breeding Sheep Report 24 March 2026
C & D Auction Marts held their weekly sale of 2,121 Store Hoggs and 41 Breeding Sheep at Longtown on Tuesday 24th March 2026
A small offering of ewes and lambs forward selling to unbelievable rates of return, with a three-crop Mule ewe with a Blue Texel ewe lamb at foot realising £700 per life. Closely followed by a two crop Cheviot Mule ewe with twin Badger Face lambs at foot making £680 per life. Many more outfits of ewes and lambs needed each week going forward to fulfil buyers ever growing demand.
Wholesale average of £198 per life.
BREEDING SHEEP
Ewes with Lambs
Mule– £700 Dalwyne
Texel– £680 Dalwyne
Suffolk– £128 Dalwyne
Shearlings & Lambs
Texel– £150, £135 Dalwyne
A slightly smaller and mixed show of store hoggs forward as we look to be getting towards of the end of the season, faced by a ring side of keen purchasers looking for numbers. Countless pens above £150 for short keep hoggs and the longer keep hoggs consistently above £100. Sale topped at £196 for a pen of Texel tup hoggs from Messrs Beck, South Port O Spittal.
Wholesale average of £125
STORE HOGGS
Texel – £180 Hopestead, Fell View & Moss House, £178 Belzies, £177 Marwhirn, £175 Fell View, £169 Castlemilk Estate
Cheviot– £178 Rowhope, £177 Archbank, £166, £165 Rowhope, £160 Langhope, £158 East Redfordgreen
Suffolk– £172 Shaw Cottage, £166 Kirkdean, £162 Ryehills, £161 Hopestead, £155 Mosser Gate, £152 Archbank
Mule – £170 Moss House, £165 Kingside, £164 Hensol, £159 Kingside, £157 Belzies
Beltex – 170 Sorbie, £166 Wormerlaw
Hampshire– £166 Newtonhill
Herdwick– £160, £159, £156, £153 & £143 Moss House, £142 Mosser Gate
Cheviot Mule– £160 Marwhirn
Romney– £158, £147 Romavale
Blackface– £156 Kingside, £152 Drumgrange, £148, £140 Sorbie,£136 Merkland, £134 The Lampert
Charollais– £155 Hallrule Mill
North Country Cheviot -£150 Fala Hill, £146 Kingside
Dutch Spotted– £150, £140 Newton Hill
Lonk– £148 Cherry Tree
Blue Faced Leicester– £144 Belzies Farm
Easycare– £142, £139 Romavale
Zwartbles– £142 Newtonhill
Swaledale– £133 Mosser Gate
Charmoise– £129 Bankhead of Tinwald
Shetland– £127 South Port o Spittal
Jacob– £126 Newtonhill
Tup Hoggs
Texel– £196 South Port o Spittal, £178 Twislehope
Charollais– £186 Kingside, £184 South Port o Spittal
Blackface– £180 Lamperts
Cheviot– £178 Easter Alemoor
Feeding ewes of all classes jump a gear this week with more purchasers on the lookout for feeding sheep, large numbers can be handled with ease. Sale topped at £170 for a Texel ewe from E Wilkie, Shaw Cottage.
FEEDING EWES
Texel– £170 Shaw Cottage, £165 Hopestead, £156 Hensol, £150 Kirkdean & Black House, £142 Shaw Cottage
Blackface– £158 Wooplaw, £150 Xherry Tree, £138 Merkland Farm, £129 Wooplaw
Mule– £155 Shaw Cottage, £152 Black House, £142 Wooplaw, £140 Hopestead, £138 Wooplaw, £130 Hopestead
Beltex– £148 Shaw Cottage
Romney– £146 Holme Farm
Hill Cheviot– £142 Winter Crag, £140 Whitcastles, £136 Wooplaw, £122 Hensol
Dutch Spotted– £118 Cherry Tree
CAST RAMS
Texel– £160 Shaw Cottage
Blackface– £145 Dalwyne
Suffolk– £130 Shaw Cottage
Blue Faced Leicester– £130 Dalwyne
