Longtown Store & Breeding Sheep Sale Report
C & D Auction Marts held their weekly sale of Breeding sheep, Store hoggs and Feeding sheep at Longtown on Tuesday 27th May 2025.
Hoggs and lambs (124) top at £158 for a pen of Texel cross hoggs with Beltex cross lambs at foot from R G Hutchinson, Bayles Farm.
Ewes and lambs (202) a leaner show of ewes forward with later born lambs at foot. Topping today was a fantastic pen of Texel cross ewes with Texel lambs at foot realising £130 for K E White & Partners, Morwood Farm.
Breeding Sheep
Ewes with Singles
Suffolk – £152 & £140 Bayles
Texel – £130 Northway, £115 Crossings Cottage, £110 Great Easby
Mules – £122 Swinside Townfoot, £85 Northway, £82 Low Old Shields
North Country Cheviot – £80 & £78 Crossings Cottage, £52 Blackwood Bridge House
Ewes with Twins
Texel – £115 Northway, £112 Great Easby, £112 Swinside Townfoot, £105 Crossings Cottage
Cheviot – £100 Crossings Cottage
Mules – £98 Dykeside, £98 Great Easby, £88 25 Northway, £88 Moss Side
Jacob – £72 Dykeside
Hoggs with Singles
Texel – £158 Bayles, £148 & £145 Shitlington
Cheviot Mule – £155, £154 & £145 Swinside Townfoot
Zwartbles – £102 Bayles
Store hogg numbers (92) a sweeping up show of store hoggs on offer.
Store Hoggs
Texel – £110 Cowden Burn, £89 Kirndean, £86 Cowden Burn, £84 & £80 Kirndean
Cross – £84 Cowden Burn
Swaledale – £78 Park House
Blackface – £68 Cowden Burn
Easycare – £68 Leahaugh
Herdwick – £52 Boathouse Cottage
Tup Hoggs
Shetland – £52 Woodhall
Feeding sheep (28) a small offering of feeding ewes remain in high demand.
Feeding Ewes
Easycare – £122 Leahaugh
Bluefaced Leicester – £116 Peat Gap
Swaledale – £72 Parkhouse
Cheviot – £64 Woodhall
Texel – £60 Woodhall
Feeding Rams
Blackface – £104 Cowden Burn
