Longtown Store & Breeding Sheep Tuesday 27 May 2026
C & D Auction Marts held their weekly sale of 800 Breeding Sheep at Longtown on Tuesday 26th May 2026
A great show of 800 ewes & hoggs with lambs at foot was forward. With several new customers round the ringside. A stronger trade was witnessed. All looking for sheep as the grass jumps in the heat.
Topping at £185 per life for a Blue Texel ewe and lamb from Seat Hill, many more could be sold to advantage every week.
Ewes & Lambs
Blue Texel– £185, £170, £160 Seat Hill
Cheviot Mule– £166 Stockasteads
Texel– £168 Foregirth, £164 Stockasteads, £160 Quarry House
Suffolk– £156 Quarry House, £154 Hallrule Mill
Mule– £150 Quarry House, £139 Pilmuir, £136 Quarry House, £130 Moss Side, £126 Twislehope
Charollais– £132 Moss Side
Cheviot– £128, £125 Priesthaugh
Herdwick– £75 Orthwaite Hall
Kendal Rough– £86 Low Greenley Cleugh
Hoggs & Lambs
Beltex– £170 SeatHill
Texel– £155 Seat Hill, £150 Thornton Tower, £148 Grindon Hill, £148 Old Police House
Cheviot– £150 Grindon Hill
Suffolk– £145 Grindon Hill
Mule– £138 Old Police House
STORE LAMBS
Zwartble– £138 Stapleton Grange
STORE HOGGS
Suffolk– £179 Tara
Texel– £168, £158, £145 Tara
Badger Face– £145 Station Court
Cheviot Mule– 130 Cleughead
Mule– £128 Tara
Herdwick– £120 Station Court
Cheviot– £112 Meikleholmside
Blackface– £108 Station Court
A larger show of feeding ewes on offer holding very much the same high rates of return as last week with a strong present around ring side looking for feeding ewes.
FEEDING EWES
Texel– £170 Station Court
Mule– £168 Station Court
Blackface– £163 Station Court
Cheviot Mule– £156 Cleughead
