Longtown Store & Breeding Sheep Sale Report

C & D Auction Marts held their weekly sale of 5,912 Store Lambs on Tuesday 12th November 2024.

Store lamb trade was electric with overall average up £13 on the week. All shapes and sizes of lambs were highly contended for. Purchasers had travelled from all four corners of the United Kingdom, and it was proven that the number forward was not enough to fulfil their requirements. Many more could have been sold to vendors' advantage.

Top price of the day was a pen of North Country Cheviot Park type tup lambs consigned by Gibson Farming, Cut Thorn Farm realising £146. Chasing not far behind at £145 was a fantastic Beltex cross lamb from B Ryder, Hammerlands.

A larger show of 829 feeding ewes forward met a blistering trade, topping the sale at £146 was a pen of cheviot mule ewes from R H Gladstone & Co, Capenoch. This tremendous run of ewes went on to average £106 for 147 sold. Like the lamb trade, many more feeding sheep could have been sold to vendors' advantage.

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Store Lambs

North Country Cheviot - £146, £106, £94 Cut Thorn, £123 Hownam Grange, £114, £112, £100 Bankhead, £114, £100 Branxholm Braes, £108 Priesthaugh, £108 Bayles, £98 Oak Rigg, £98, £83 The Shaws, £97 Hammerlands

Beltex - £145, £134, £111, £106 Hammerlands, £128, £100 Bogrie, £127, £110 Whitecairn, £122, £107 Braehead, £121 x2 The Height, £115 Oak Rigg

Texel - £139, £128 x2 Low Farmham, £130 Gillesbie, £129 Greensburn, £127 Gillesbie, £126 Barkbeth, £124 Craighead, £124 Skelfhill, £123 Elfhills, £123 Southwick, £122 Midlock, £122 Shaw of Dryfe, £118 Morwood

Blackface - £132, £109, £96 Embley, £114, £104 x2 Mains, £102, £84 Upper Hindhope, £102 The Lamperts, £101 Skelfhill, £98 Spadeadam, £94, £86 Glen, £85 Greensburn, £84 Drumblair

Suffolk - £129 Aar-Dar, £128 Morwood, £124 Skelfhill, £123 Oliver Rd, £122, £120, £118 Woodside, £119 Hepplehill, £118 Bogrie, £117 Muirfield, £98 Hallburn

Blue Faced Leicester - £128 Cut Thorn

Cross - £121 Greensburn,£119 Brewery House, £115, £112 Mains, £115, £111 Craighead, £113 Belsay Barns, £106 Low Stokoe, £105 Bayles, £100 Stockholm, £98 Woodburn

Cheviot Mule - £119 Bankhead, £117 Skelfhill, £113 Bankhead, £112 Shepherds Cottage, £112, £108 Craighead, £98 Kelsocleugh, £94 Cut Thorn

Romney - £121, £86 Cadgillhead, £119, £104 Reddis Hall, £87 Cadgillhead

Charollais - £117 Whitecairn, £111, £109 Hallburn, £103 Hammerlands, £99 Bayles

Lleyn - £117 The Height, £99 Hyndlee

Hill Cheviot - £110 Crossdykes, £109 Branxholm Braes, £106 Tushielaw, £105 Hepplehill, £104 Granton, £99 Sorbie, £99 East Buccleuch, £96 Keepershield, £92 Solwaybank

Easycare - £109, £101 Alnham, £82 Swinside

Oxford - £108 Easterburn

Kerry Hill - £100 Bankhead, £96 Wormerlaw

Herdwick - £97 Orthwaite Hall, £85 Bayles, £80 Beckstones, £78 Stockholm, £69 Border Rigg

White Faced Woodland - £92 Smales

Shetland - £75 Kelsocleugh

Zwartbles - £70 Wormerlaw

Swaledale - £56 Keepersshield

Feeding Ewes

Cheviot Mule - £146 Capenoch

Texel - £145 Stone House, £142 Bankhead, £139 Bainbridge, £138, £133, £118 Southwick, £130 Kintraw, £129, £126, £120 Capenoch, £120 Westerhall

North Country Cheviot - £136 Bankhead, £120 Alnham, £120, £90 South Arran, £115, £70 Kelsocleugh, £114, £88, £78 Meikle Whitriggs, £112 Bankhead, £101, £67 The Shaws, £90 Rowhope

Suffolk - £136 Cut Thorn

Lleyn - £118, £108 Cut Thorn

Romney - £117 Reddis Hall

Blackface - £100, £68 South Arran, £92 The Lamperts, £90 Alnham, £78 Midlock, £75 Alnham, £73 Reddis Hall

Hill Cheviot - £96 Westerhall, £70  Carlenrigg

Cross - £96 Capenoch, £94 Belsay Barns, £92 Reddis Hall, £92 Towsbank, £89 Spadeadam, £88 Kintraw, £88 Shaw of Dryfe, £86 South Arran, £70 Swinside

Hebridean - £90 Auchlees

Swaledale - £56 Hole of Lyne

Easycare - £55 Swinside

Rams

Blackface - £200, £150, £120 x2, £100 Borthwickshiels, £98 Barkbeth, £72 Garvachy

North Country Cheviot - £80 The Mark