Bluefaced Leicester Union

In Leicesters, blue is finer!

Shows

  • People’s Choice Award!

    Winning the People’s Choice award in the Black Sheep Gathering fiber arts competition for the third year in a row was BLU board member Karen Szewc’s entry in the Felting:humanoid or critter category.

  • Bluefaced Leicester classes full at the recent BSG

    There was a great turnout for the BFL classes at the recent Black Sheep Gathering, held in Eugene, OR on June 23-25th. The BSG is the site of next year’s BFL National Show. Here are the class standings for the sheep show. Yearling Ram 1) Liongate 2) Terra Mia 3) Liongate Ram Lamb – 11…

  • Show results from the Maryland Sheep & Wool festival BFL classes

    Champion Ram – Margaret VanCamp – Pitchfork Ranch Champion Ewe – Ellora Chapin Res CH Ewe – VanCamp Flock – VanCamp Best Fleece – Ellora Chapin Also showing were Meredith Myers-Null and Cathie Shiff. These are all white BFLs; the natural colored BFLs are shown in the natural colored longwool classes. Here is Ellora –…

  • 2017 Reserve Champion fleece at Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival

    The 2017 champion BFL fleece and Reserve Champion Overall fleece in the HUGE Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival fleece competition. Grown and exhibited by BLU member Margie Smith of PA.

  • 2017 YCP yearling ewe recipient Charles O’Boyle

    Introducing the 2017 Youth Conservation Program Recipient of the Bluefaced Leicester Yearling ewe, donated this year by BLU member Meredith Myers-Null of Maryland. I am Charlie O’Boyle from Cumberland, MD. I am a 4-Her in the Mountain and Valley 4-H livestock club in Allegany county. Sheep have always been a part of my life as…

  • 33RD NORTH EAST YOUTH SHEEP SHOW JULY 13 – 16, 2017

    Eastern States Exposition West Springfield, MA The North East Youth Sheep Show (NEYSS) is the 3rd largest and longest running youth sheep show in the country. It is the premier all-breed junior show in the northeast, attracting 200 youth exhibitors and 600 head of sheep, with 20+ breeds represented. Weekend activities include: ? Breed Shows…

  • 7th National BFL Show venue announced

    The 7th National Bluefaced Leicester show has been set for June 22, 23 & 24th, 2018. The venue will be the Black sheep Gathering on the Linn County fairgrounds in Albany Oregon. More information will be posted as details emerge. Please set aside this date, and make plans to join us in 2018!

  • Best in Show!

    Congratulations to Glenda Moore for her Best in Show win at the North Carolina state fair with a skein of handspun BFL yarn. The wool came from Glenda’s BFLs.

  • BFL champion longwool white ewe at Lambtown USA!

    BLU member Correy McAtee shares a photo of her 7 month ewe lamb, McAtee 1627, who was the champion white longwool ewe at Lambtown USA show in Dixon, CA this past weekend. “She’s been the top placing ewe lamb all summer at the west coast shows. Looking forward to her yearling year as a show…

  • News from the “Big E”

    BLU Junior member Ellie Chapin showing (1st place) in the Jr. Lead Line. Wool dress and Bluefaced Leicester ewe.