Bluefaced Leicester Union

In Leicesters, blue is finer!

Maryland

  • 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…

  • The Working Herding Dog demonstration at the Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival.

    by Nancy Starkey, BLU member I have been announcing the demos for over 20 years and have been performing in the demos for the past seven or eight years. We have used Bluefaced Leicester sheep from my flock in the demos for several years. The natural beauty and athleticism of the BFL makes for an…

  • Herding Demo at MS&W festival

    by Nancy Starkey I have been announcing the demos for over 20 years and have been performing in the demos for the past six or seven years. We have used Bluefaced Leicester sheep from my flock in the demos for several years, and they were especially appropriate this year because of the Bluefaced Leicester National…

  • Haven’t you heard???

    The BFL National Show is Saturday, May 7th at the Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival. Information about the sheep show, fleece & skein competitions, banquet, hotel accommodations, and other planned events on the “About BLU” – national show information drop-down menu above.

  • Updated information on the BFL National Show

    The 6th Bluefaced Leceister National Show will be held during the Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival on May 7 & 8, 2016. The sheep show will be on Saturday, May 7th. There will be separate classes for white and natural colored, with special awards given. A list of these classes can be found under the…

  • BFL fleeces shown at Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival

    Submitted by Margie Smith, BLU member 1st place BFL fleece in 2014 MS&W fleece show The fleeces shown, are from Marlindale Farm in New Oxford, PA. Margie and Lynn Smith have been running Marlindale Farm since 1990 having moved from Emmitsburg, MD to New Oxford in 2004. With support from BFL breeders (giving us our…

  • Stillmeadow Cottage has 1st place ewe lamb and best fleeced BFL at Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival

    From Joan Chapin, Milton, NH I sent my two ewe lambs to Maryland this year w/ my son and daughter-in-law as they were going down from New Hampshire with two Romney groups (black and white). This was the first time that I had lambs early enough and good enough (I thought) to show there. One…

  • My Day with the YCP

    Maggie, donor Brenda Lelli of Beechtree Farm, and Greystone By Maggie Hoffman Hi, my name is Maggie Hoffman and this year I won a Bluefaced Leicester yearling ram through the Youth Conservation Program. The Youth Conservation Program’s mission is to encourage the youth to raise and show heritage breeds of sheep such as the Bluefaced…