Bluefaced Leicester


  • National BFL Show to be held May 25-27, 2012 in Wooster, OH

    BLU reviewed the National Show venue proposals received in January and has made its selection. It’s official! Our National Bluefaced Leicester Show will be held on May 25-27, 2012 at the Great Lakes Fiber Show venue (during this festival), in Wooster, Ohio. Banner Sales also holds a show and sale during this festival, and BFL…


  • 2011 Membership Drive Kickoff!

    Don’t forget to renew your membership with BLU! $15 Active $5 Youth $10 Associate Click on the membership “How to Join” button above for more information. We encourage you to use our PayPal feature. Don’t risk missing even one minute of the benefits of membership. The deadline to renew without interruption of your membership is March…


  • Remembering Anne Priest

    A wonderful friend to the Bluefaced Leicester breed and those involved with it (as well as the Border Leicester breed), Anne Barclay Priest traveled on to greener pastures in late November of 2010. She was 83 years old, and just shy of her birthday on November 23 by a couple of days. She passed on…


  • Super Sire, Ltd. imports straws from magnificent “Masterplan”

    After a few of us saw (and drooled over) a photo of a ram named “Scotty” all the way back during New York State Sheep & Wool Festival 2007… straws from UK Bluefaced Leicester ram Mossvale Masterplan 1463/X6 E+ have finally been imported this year by Martin Dally of Super Sire, Ltd.! Jared Lloyd was…


  • Blue Alliance Investors Import Straws from Six UK Rams

    By Heather Landin, Cedar Fen Farm, Baldwin, WI Originally published in the newsletter BLU Print; October 2010 issue, Vol. 1, No. 3 Additional content/edits by Kristen Barndt for this version A group of BFL Union Members from both the US and Canada pulled together last fall with a group of UK breeders to figure out…


  • Interest in Regional BFL Show to be held in New Jersey

    Information originally published in the newsletter BLU Print; October 2010, Vol. 1, No. 3 The Garden State Sheep Breeders Festival was held on September 11th & 12th. Although it is a small sheep and fiber festival, the numbers have been growing significantly in recent years. This year’s Festival was very well attended and by many…


  • Welcome to our new BLU site!

    The biggest news from the secretary’s desk is that we’ve been working on a new BLU website. We apologize for the delays, but here it is! Like all births, it was accompanied by much groaning and gnashing of teeth (as well as some pulling of hair)! It’s been a pretty big project, but the new…