Longtown Store & Breeding Sheep Sale Reports
C&D Auction Marts Ltd had forward 1,552 store hoggs,
feeding ewes and cast rams at their weekly sale at Longtown on Tuesday 25th
March 2025.
Breeding Sheep
A small offering of ewes with lambs met an
electrifying trade topping at £178 per life for Texel ewes with Texel twins at
foot from AR Bell & Son, Kirkton, Hawick.
Ewes & Lambs
Texel – £178 Kirkton, £98
Woodburn
North Country Cheviot – £95,
£70 Raggiewhat
Welsh Badgerface – £65,
£62 Rainors
Shearlings & Lambs
Dutch Spotted – £95
Woodburn
North Country Cheviot –
£78 Raggiewhat
Store Hoggs
A much smaller show of 1,354 store hoggs forward as numbers
start to dry up. However, purchasers continue to travel up and down the
country looking for numbers. A quality end of season show was on offer today
with a lot of little running hoggs around. Top price was for a fantastic Texel
hogg from Andrew Reid & Co, Glendearg, realising £160.
A fantastic run of 41 Texel cross
hoggs from W Slaven & Son, Foregirth Farm went over the average and hit an impressive
£140.
Principal prices
Store Hoggs
Texel – £160 Glendearg,
£154, £146, £142, £141, £140 Foregirth, £143, £140 Longformacus, £140 Barrock
End, £138 Wormerlaw, £138 Shankston
Greyface – £158, £134
Laverhay, £145 Foregirth, £140 Bayldon, £129 Grindon Hill, £122 High Nunclose,
£118 Ballacarnane, £117 Outer Huntly, £116 Drumgrange, £115 Drumheller
Cheviot Mule – £152, £132
Bayldon, £134, £130 Lawesknowe
Blackface – £146, £140
Glendearg, £138, £128 Carnochan, £136, £128 Grindon Hill, £136, £124 Shankston,
£122 Catslackburn, £122 Laverhay, £119 Stell Green, £118 Ballaharry, £114
Drumgrange
Suffolk – £146 Bayldon,
£144 Keepers Cottage, £138, £127, £116 Haliburton, £138 Laverhay, £124
Foregirth, £122, £120, £114 Cooilingel, £116 Niviston, £110 Drumgrange, £110
The Mark, £110 Catslackburn
Blue Faced Leicester –
£140 Laverhay
Hill Cheviot – £138, £126
Skelfhill, £129 Catslackburn, £126 Glendearg, £124, £122, £116 Burnfoot of
Ewes, £112 Gallhills
Beltex – £135 Barrock End
Kerry Hill – £122, £114,
£100 Wormerlaw, £104 Drumheller
Welsh Badgerface – £114
Wormerlaw
Kendal Rough – £98 Gill
Head
North Country Cheviot – £150
The Mark, £144 Laverhay, £133, £118 Lawsknowe, £131 Longformacus, £123
Ballaharry, £121 Cooilingel, £118 Gallhills
Charollais – £150
Cubbyhill
Zwartbles – £118 Wormerlaw
Dorset – £112 Niviston
Easycare – £110 Cooilingel
Herdwick – £100, £81
Rowhead, £100, £84 Wasdale, £98 Ballaharry, £96 Thomas Telford Rd, £82 Moorside
Swaledale – £90, £84
Triermain
Shetland – £82 Kernal Hill
Feeding Ewes and Cast Rams
A smaller show of 156 feeding ewes and cast rams were on
offer this week. Top price of the day went to S Corlett, Ballacowin, at £180
for a pen of Texel cross ewes.
Principal prices
Feeding Ewes
Texel – £180 Ballacowin ,
£160 Ballaterson £150, £140, £134 125, £108 Partridge Ghyll, £128, £100 Ridley
Hill Cheviot – £140
Keepers Cottage, £122 Wasdale Head, £100 Catslackburn
Kendal Rough – £130 Gill
Head
Greyface – £126, £122,
Ballterson, £124 Gill head, £95 Cooilingel
Lleyn – £120 Partridge
Ghyll
North Country Cheviot –
£116 Commonside
Zwartbles – £108
Ballterson
Herdwick – £102 Wasdale
Head
Blackface – £90 x2
Partridge Ghyll
Cast Rams
Beltex– £155 Barkbeth
Blackface – £150 Laverhay
Texel – £148 Ballterson
North Country Cheviot –
£133 Priesthaugh
Blue Faced Leicester –
£100 Partridge Ghyll
Kendal Rough – £98 Gill
Head
For any enquiries contact our
auctioneers
Daniel Lynn 07584 200489
John Walton 07880 527066
Joe Conley 0777 168 5073
