Longtown Store & Breeding Sheep Sale Report
C & D Auction Marts held
their weekly sale of 6,444 Store Hoggs and Breeding Sheep at Longtown on Tuesday
21st January 2025.
The first offering of 445 in-lamb
ewes here at Longtown topped at £300 per head for a fantastic trio of Texel
cross gimmers in-lamb to a Texel tup from Kelsocleugh Farming, closely followed
by a pen of Suffolk x Cheviot gimmers also from Kelsocleugh, realising £280.
Ewes with lambs topped at £105
per life for a Suffolk cross ewe with a single Texel lamb at foot from McNabney
Bros, Barsalloch Farm.
Numbers just keep on coming in
the store sheep ring with 5,571 forward to meet a ring full of buyers from up
and down the country; topping at £250 for a Texel tup hogg from McNabney Bros,
Barsalloch Farm. Beltex cross hoggs topped at £174 from D W Musgrave, Sowerby
Wood Farm. Hoggs of all classes in strong demand here at Longtown with a buyer
for every type around ringside.
Feeding ewes and cast rams in strong demand with a larger show of 428 forward,
Texel ewes lead the way at £200 from Jack Weatherly, Cloverfield Cottage.
Suffolk ewes topped at £182 from RS Kennedy, Ballagyr Park.
BREEDING SHEEP
Ewes
Texel – £300, £245
Kelsocleugh, £250, £175, £165, £160 Newhope, £230 Sheepfields, £165 Barsalloch,
£160 Stockholm
Suffolk – £265
Kelsocleugh, £205 Sheepfields
Charollais – £260
Sheepfields
North Country Cheviot –
£200, £145, £125 Sheepfields
Dorset – £200, £165, £140
Sheepfields
Beltex – £195 Newhope,
£128 Culcaigrie
Dutch Spotted – £148
Sheepfields
Cross – £128 Culcaigrie
Kerry Hill – £110, £95
Sheepfields
Blackface – £100 Hen Moss
Swaledale – £100 Hen Moss
Gimmers
Suffolk – £280 Kelsocleugh
Texel – £215, £190, £170
Newhope
Half-Bred – £150, £148
Stockolm
Cross – £250 Glen Darroch,
£195 Lagganmore
Cheviot Mule – £250, £230
Glen Darroch
STORE HOGGS
Texel – £250 Barsaloch,
£168, £154 Ballagyr Park, £162, £156, £147 Burrance of Courance, £159
Drinkstone, £158 Meikleholm, £151, £149, £143 Dranigower, £151 Tara, £150
Barngilies, £150, £147 Brayshaw, £150 Causey View and Sowerby Wood, £146
Tecket, £145 Tarrasfoot, £144 Conhess, £143 Banks Head, £143 Ellerslea, £142
Errington
Beltex – £174, £158, £151
Sowerby Wood, £160, £158 Tecket, £146 Cadgillhead, £142, £140, £137 Unity, £135
Low Garth, £134 Drinkstone, £134 Aar-Dar, £132 Bridgestone, £130 Priestdykes
Suffolk – £152 Banks Head,
£145 Hallrule, £144, £140 Tarrasfoot, £139 Burnhead, £139 Tecket, £137
Barnglies, £136 Cleughhead, £134 Drinkstone, £131 Hepplehill, £130 Parkhill,
£130 Tarrasfoot, £130 Ballacarnane, £129 Fellend and Lagganmore
Dorset – £148 Sheepfields
North Country Cheviot – £146,
£124 Allfornaught, £140, £122 Whitedyke, £137 Halterburnhead, £132
Dormansteads, £127 Mollin, £125 High Townhead, £124, £120 Ballaharry, £124
Ballachristory, £121 Ballacarane, £120 Woodside, £118 Sheepfields,
Cross – £140, £122
Pryhill, £130 Lagganmore, £130 Halterburnhead, £128 Gibbs Hill, £126
Hepplehill, £126, £124 Banks Head, £125 Ballachristory, £124 Laverhay, £122
Cowden Burn, £120 Linhope, £117 Barron House
Hill Cheviot – £137, £127
Twislehope, £128, £125, £122, £119, £115, £111, £109 Beckfoot, £118
Meikledale, £117, £107 Falnash, £114 North House, £113, £103 Potholm, £112
Langholm, £109 Linhope, £104 North Shortcleugh
Ryeland – £136, £117
Conhess
Blue Texel – £134
Whitchesters
Cheviot Mule – £130
Dormansteads, £120 Mollin, £111 Parkhill
Blackface – £130 Lamperts,
£121, £120, £109 Cowden Burn, £115 Garvilland, £113, £96 Little Larg, £112 Draingower,
£110 Parkhill, £110, £103 Linhope, £108 Hepplehill, £105 Halfmark, £105
Meikleholm
Hampshire – £130 Glenlea
Charollais – £120, £104
Whitfield Est
Dutch Spotted – £113 Knock
Herwick – £110, £102, £93
Orthwaite Hall
Swaledale – £110, £100,
£96, £89 Pryhill, £93 Coatlith, £80 Hepplehill
Shetland – £109
Ballachristory, £89 Kilnknowe, £88 Whitedyke
Easycare – £109, £86
Glenlea, £107 Whitchesters, £104 South Healey, £96 Whitchesters
Badgerface – £108 Newton
Romney – £82 Cadgillhead
FEEDING EWES
Texel – £200 Cloverfield,
£190, £172, £158, Ballachristory, £188, £176 Windy Hill, £175 Parkhill, £174
Sunnybank Corvalley, £168 Ballagyr, £165 The Dykes, £155 Draingower, £154,
£151 Ridley
Suffolk – £182 Ballagyr
Park, £178 Windy Hill, £160 Parkhill, £150 Corvalley, £144 The Dykes
North Country Cheviot – £178,
£145, £125 Enzieholm, £159 Windy Hill, £140 Ballachristory, £108 Meikledale
Romney – £150
Ballachristory, £113 Burnfoot of Ewes, £100 Sunnybank
Cross – £146 Corvalley,
£139 Ballachristory, £138 Westhotbank, £134 Draingower, £132, £104 The Dykes,
£124 Moaney Moar, £124, £116 Ballaquinnea Beg, £119 Capenoch, £114, £108
Ballaharry, £112 Sunnybank
Cheviot Mule – £145 Ridley
Half-Bred – £140 Enzieholm
Easycare – £130, £100
Glenlea, £128 Ballakelly
Blackface – £124, £115
Westhotbank, £92 Moaney Moar, £88, £84 Ballaharry, £88 Lamperts
Charollais – £119
Ballachristory
Kendal Rough – £112 Moaney
Moar
Hill Cheviot – £110
Parkhill, £100 Langholm
Shetland – £102 Corvalley
Charmoise – £95
Halterburnhead
Welsh Mountain – £90
Ballaharry
CAST RAMS
Texel – £150 Ridley
Charollais – £140
Corvalley
Hill Cheviot – £129
Langholm, £128 Burnfoot of Ewes
Suffolk – £124 Ballakelly
Blackface – £118
Glenshanna, £112 Draingower, £112 Parkhill, £98 Lamperts
Easycare – £116 Glenlea
Lleyn – £107 Eriff Est
Herwick – £90 Burnfoor of
Ewes
