Longtown Store & Breeding Sheep Sale Report

C & D Auction Marts held their opening sale of Store Sheep at Longtown on Tuesday 15th July 2025.

A good show of store lambs attracted a full ring of buyers, including several from a distance. Strong lambs if anything would be scarce on the day, an overall average of £116 which was £25 up on the year. Many more could have been sold to vendors advantage considering the many buyers that were present

Store lambs top at £160 for a tremendous Beltex cross lamb from K White & Partners, Morwood.

Topping the day was a pair of Cheviot Mule ewes making £162 from White, Carrawbrough.

Lambs
Beltex – £160 Morwood, £146 & £140 Errington, £138 & £135 Morwood
Texel – £148 Errington, £143 Morwood, £140 Errington, £140 The Knowe, £138 The Laws, £137 Carrawbrough, £136 The Knowe, £135 5 Kirkhope Steading, £133 Paller Hill, £131 (x2) Errington, £131 Garriestown
Cheviot Mule – £135 & £119 Allens Green
Dutch Spot – £133 & £112 28 Briery Square
Suffolk – £130 Hullerbank, £121 (x2) Hopestead, £120 Kirkdale, £117 Hullerbank, £113 Bridgestone
Cheviot – £127 The Laws, £95 The Heugh
Cross – £116 & £105 Allens Green
Charollais – £114 Briery Square

Tup Lambs
Cross – £140 Garriestown
Beltex – £133  Kirkhope Steading, £120 The Laws
Dutch Spot – £106 Kirkhope Steading
Texel – £94 Bayles
Cheviot – £81 The Heugh

Feeding ewes and cast rams in very high demand following the store lamb trade, many more needed on a weekly basis as more and more buyers appear at ringside looking for feeding sheep.

Ewes
Cheviot Mule – £162 Carrawbrough
Texel – £152 & £136 Carrawbrough
Cross – £110 Northway
North Country Cheviot – £90 Northway
Zwartble – £72 £60 Blackyett House