Longtown Store & Breeding Sheep Sale Report
C & D Auction Marts held their weekly sale of 3335 Store Sheep, along with 689 Scottish Breeding Sheep Sale at Longtown on Tuesday 12th August 2025.
A fantastic show of breeding sheep were on offer to a packed ring of buyers from up and down the country.
Whole-sale breeding average of £221, all in , with gimmers averaging £230 for 689 sold. The sale topped twice at £400, firstly from WJ & JG Bell, Kinninghall for two pedigree Dutch Spotted gimmers and also from Lawson, Bank House for a pen of four stylish pure Suffolk Gimmers.
Breeding Ewes
Dorp – £130 Bank House
Texel – £120 Bank House
Gimmers
Dutch Spotted – £400 & £350 Kinninghall
Suffolk – £400, £330 & £320 Bank House
Texel – £380 (x2) Kinninghall, £310 Bank house, £310 & £300 Kinninghall, £300 Bank House
Cheviot Mule – £250 Bank House, £230 Newton
Half-Bred – £245 Newton
Blue Leicester – £235, £200 Bank House
Mule – £220 & £170 Bank House
Beltex – £205 Auchentaggart
Dorset – £162 Bank House, £150 Moor Side
North Country Cheviot – £155 Bank House
Jacob – £150 Bank House
Kerry Hill– £150 Bank House
Ewe Lambs
Suffolk – £148 Kilnford Croft
Ewes & Lambs
Texel – £290 Bank House
Jacob– £105 Bank House
Dorp – £65 Bank House
Shearlings & Lambs
North Country Cheviot – £125 Bank House
Texel – £115 Bank House
A larger show of store lambs were presented to an increased ringside of buyers, ensuring all classes were dearer on the week. The majority of the sale being long -term keeping lambs.
Whole-sale store average of £102 , topping at £156 for a pair of Texel from Jardine, Solwaybank Cottage.
Lambs
Texel – £156 Solway Bank, £154 Burnhead, £145 Skelfhill
Suffolk – £144 Haliburton, £142 Escart, £137 Monklaw, £135 Burnhead, £132 Outer Huntly
Cheviot Mule – £141 Monklaw, £135 Caverswood, £130 Skelfhill
Oxford – £136 Haliburton
Mule – £120 Harehead, £118 Ardacheranmor, £115 Haliburton, £115 107 Ralston
Blackface – £118 Low Tirfergus, £116 Haliburton
North Country Cheviot – £114 Monklaw, £110 Old Post Office
Jacob – £92 & £86 12 Pardovan
Dutch Spot – £85 28 Briery Square
Tup Lambs
Texel – £108 Sannox Estate
Mule – £99 Low Tirfergus
Suffolk – £99 Haliburton
Cheviot Mule – £90 Haliburton
North Country Cheviot – £88 White Knowe
Feeding ewe trade on fire with more purchasers on hunt for feeding sheep, many more feeders could have been sold to vendors advantage.
Ewes
Mule – £128 Low Tirfergus, £90 4 Wellpark
Texel – £126 The Flat
North Country Cheviot – £100 Low Tirfergus
Cheviot Mule – £91 The Flat
Blackface – £86 Low Tirfergus, £80 The Flat
