Longtown Store & Breeding Sheep Tuesday 07 April 2026
C & D Auction Marts held their weekly sale of 1,466 Store Hoggs and 178 Breeding Sheep at Longtown on Tuesday 7th April 2026
A similar show of ewes and lambs met strong demands here at Longtown. Many more could be sold to reach buyers requirements.
BREEDING SHEEP
In Lamb Ewes
Swaledale – £148 Holme Head
Ewes with Lambs
Dorset – £168, £158 Greenrigg
Texel – £158 Old Dairy, £158, £152 Tedcastle
Beltex – £148 Tedcastle
Kerry Hill – £136, £124 Tedcastle
Cross – £152 Tedcastle
Cheviot – £88 Airyolland House, £80 Old Dairy
Shearlings with Lambs
Suffolk – £108 Old Dairy
Cheviot Mule – £100 Old Dairy
A smaller show of store hoggs forward as we start to see the tail ends on offer, a ring side of eager buyers still looking for more numbers of store sheep on a weekly basis.
Top price goes to a pen of Suffolk cross ewe hoggs from Ralia Enterprises LTD, Nuide Farm realising £204.
Wholesale average £149.89
STORE HOGGS
Suffolk – £204, £196, £190 Nuide Farm, £180 Kirkton of Kingoldrum, £174 Inch Farm
Texel – £194 Leonards Farm, £186 Oakrigg, £182 White Knowe, £180 Leonards Farm, £178 Duke Street, Chapel Farm & Romesbeoch
Charollais– £190 Station Road, £182 Inch Farm, £170 Stirches Mains
Mule – £190 Nuide Farm, £162 Drumgrange
Hill Cheviot – £171 Girnwood, £165 Fala Hill & Girnwood, £158 Fala Hill, £155 The Shaws, £154 Fala Hill, £149 Langholm Initiative, £148 Castlegarth
Shetland– £170, £150 The Shaws
Beltex – £170 Kirkton of Kingoldrum, £150 Chapel Farm
Lleyn– £166 Auchmacleddie
Dorset– £166 Greenrigg
Dutch Spotted– £160 Oak Rigg
Blackface– £158 Nuide Farm, £152 Drumgrange, £148 Owlethirst, £142 Blackriggs, £136 Nuide Farm
North Country Cheviot – £156 Northway
Herdwick– £154 Moss House, £152 Duke Street
Kendal Rough– £104 Gill Head
Swaledale– £100 Gill Head
Jacob– £100 Dykeside
Tup Hoggs
Cheviot– £186, £168 Bloch
Blackface – £166 Drumgrange
Texel– £166 Duke Street
Mule– £154 Moss House
Feeding ewes don’t look to be slacking off yet as they are still as dear as they have been, topping the sale was Texel ewe from B Richardson, St Leonards Farm realising £295.
FEEDING EWES
Texel – £295, £250 St Leonards, £200 Collin Bank, £178 Oakrigg, £170 White Knowe
Cheviot Mule- £192 White Knowe
North Country Cheviot – £178 Northway
Dorset– £176 Greenrigg
Cheviot– £160 White Knowe & Linhope, £150 Arkleton, £148 Girnwood
Mule– £158 Romesbeoch
Blackface– £144 Collin Bank
Hampshire– £140 Auchmacleddie
Lleyn– £130 Auchmacleddie
CAST RAMS
Texel– £215 St Leonards Farm
Charollais– £180 Stirches Farm
Charmoise– £148 Stirches Farm
