Longtown Store & Breeding Sheep Sale Reports

C&D Auction Marts Ltd had forward 3,226 store hoggs, feeding ewes and cast rams at their weekly sale at Longtown on Tuesday 4th March 2025.

Store Hoggs (3,101) – A larger show of hoggs were forward with a very mixed show on offer. Short keep hoggs seen to premium rates as purchasers travel from up and down the country to take advantage of the numbers placed in front of them.

Top price of the day goes to Bowhill Farming Ltd, Linhope for a tremendous South Country Cheviot ewe hogg realising £160

Feeding Ewes and Cast Rams (125) –  A much smaller show of feeding ewes on offer this week. Top price was a Suffolk tup making £190 from J G Murray & Son, Branxholm Braes.

PRINCIPAL PRICES
Store Hoggs
Beltex – £160 Brow Top, £160, £140, £139 Shankcastle, £157, £156, £150, £144 Unity, £143, £134 Netherton, £142 Gillalees, £138, £131 High Stenries
Hill Cheviot – £160, £118 Linhope, £135, £118 Branxholm Braes, £130 Stooprigg, £130, £126, £116 Twislehope, £130 Bloch, £128 Skelfhill, £128, £124, £119 Bloch, £116 North House
Texel – £158, £145 Holmbrig, £152 High Parkfoot, £152, £148 x2 Windyhill, £152, £142 Pilmuir, £149 Newtown, £146 Glenkiln, £146 Arnprior, £141 Collin Bank, £140 Dyke, £140, £138 Flex, £139 Solway Bank, £139 Keepers Cottage, £138 Milton Mains, £138 Becton Hall
Suffolk – £150 Blackriggs, £148, £138 Mouldyhills, £138, £136, £132 Keepers Cottage, £138 Dyke, £137 Arnprior, £135 Shaw Cottage, £134 Branxholm Braes, £132 Hepplehill, £131 Helmburn, £130 High Floweryhirst
Charollais – £142 Dyke, £137 Howberry, £136 Blackriggs, £130 Brigview, £128 Drumheller
Cross – £140 Glenkiln, £134, £118 High Parkfoot, £134, £126 Mouldyhills, £130 The Ash, £128 Windyhill, £128 Newtown, £127 Beyond the Moss, £125 Keskadale, £124 Cooilingel, £122 Drumheller, £119 Ardoch
Romney – £139 Pilmuir
Cheviot Mule – £137 Pilmuir, £111 Balminnoch, £106 Mouldyhills
North Country Cheviot – £129 Keskadale Hill, £124 Boreland, £120 Blackriggs, £111 Quarter, £97 Halterburnhead, £94 Brigview, £92 Embley, £87 Alton, £86 The Shaws
Herdwick – £119 Causey View, £88 Orthwaite Hall
Dorset – £106 Ballaquinnea Beg
Dorset – £106 Ballaquinnea Beg
Lleyn – £102, £98 Cooilingel
Kendal Rough – £98, £80 Church View, £80 Gill Head
Welsh Mountain – £72 Cooilingel
Easycare – £86 Borrane
Shetland – £87 Brigview
Swaledale – £80 Gill Head

Feeding Ewes
Texel – £172 Gillalees, £150 Ballamoar, £130 Woodburn, £110 Newham Hagg,
Suffolk – £170, £160 x2, £132 Shaw Cottage, £160 Branxholm Braes
Cross – £150 Windyhill, £140 Blackriggs, £132 Ballamoar, £128 Ridley
North Country Cheviot – £132 Keepers Cottage, £105 Blackriggs
Dorset – £120 Ballaquinnea Beg
Hill Cheviot – £118 Bloch, £112 Langholm Initiative, £100 Branxholm Braes
Kendal Rough – £100 Church View
Blackface – £92 Gillalees
Herdwick – £90 Pendicle

Rams
Suffolk – £190, £152 Branxholm Braes
Beltex – £148 Blackriggs
Hill Cheviot – £138 Langholm Initiative, £125 Branxholm Braes
Texel – £130 The Ash
Easycare– £114 Mayfield
Swaledale – £114 Sheepriggs

BREEDING SHEEP

376 In lamb sheep and dry hoggs forward.  
Topping the sale at £285 for a Texel cross gimmer from Highfield Farming Ltd, Knock.
A fantastic run of Texel cross and Mule ewes were on offer from Cowden Partners, Cowden Burn only for sale due to a change in farm policy, this run topped at £275 and averaged £258 for 114 sold.

Inlamb ewe hoggs topped at £215 for a pair of Suffolk cross hoggs from C Cowen, Itonfield.

Ewes
Cross – £275, £265, £250 Cowden Burn, £220, £185 South Hill
Texel – £260, £240 Cowden Burn, £200, £175 Knock, £195 Hopestead, £192, £185 Itonfield, £190 Purgavie
North Country Cheviot – £225 Auchentaggart, £200 Knock, £195, £182 Purgavie
Suffolk – £155, £150 Hopestead
Hill Chevoit – £128 Langholm Initiative
Blackface – £138, £122 Glenshanna
Herdwick – £115, £110 Linton

Gimmers
Texel – £285, £220, £190 Knock, £275 Itonfield, £265 Cowden Burn
Suffolk – £275 Itonfield, £270 Knock
Cheviot Mule – £230 Auchentaggart
North Country Cheviot – £220 Knock
Blackface – £150 Glenshanna

Ewe Hoggs
Texel – £215, £180 Itonfield
Suffolk – £215, £180 Itonfield
North Country Cheviot – £180 Yethouse Fields