New Year Blue Promotions

We started off 2010 by promoting the Bluefaced Leicester and the BFLBA, as well as the NAMSS and the roll that the Mule plays in the 3-Tier Breeding System.
We were at the Michigan Sheep Breeders Assoc. 'Shepherd's Weekend'
held in Lansing, MI on a very cold and blustery weekend January 2nd & 3rd.

Our display table contained newsletters, tri-folds, and flyers for the BFLBA, and the NAMSS.

As well as handouts announcing the dates for the 2010 Great Lakes ~ Bluefaced Leicester Show, and the NAMSS ~ Mule Sheep & Progeny Show,
to be held at the Wisconsin Sheep & Wool Festival, September 10 - 12, 2010

We also had a laptop and computer display screen running different photo slideshows promoting Bluefaced Leicesters, Mule Sheep, grass fed lamb, and the different breeds associated with the 3-Tier Breeding System.

We had many interested sheep producers asking questions about the BFL sires involvement in the 3-Tier system, as well as picking up the informational flyers and newsletters for reading later.

Watch this blog and the www.BFLBA.com website for updates on where we will be promoting the Bluefaced Leicester, and the BFLBA and its members,

as well as information about the 2nd Great Lakes ~ Bluefaced Leicester Show.

BFLBA Website

The BFLBA's website has recently undergone a few updates to its pages, including some photos from the Great Lakes ~ Bluefaced Leicester Show in the photo gallery. Visit: www.BFLBA.com
The complete results from the GLBFLS show, and more photos will follow on this blog, and in the upcoming issue of the BFLBA's newsletter 'The Blue News.

Great Lakes ~ Bluefaced Leicester Show

For the Great Lakes ~ Bluefaced Leicester Show 2009, our judge was allowed to choose a special placement award called the "Judge's Choice Award". He was to choose an appropriate topic for what he felt was the most deserving category for the entries of the day.

Our guest UK judge: Mr. John Stott, choose to make it the "Young Handlers Award" to recognize the young youth who did such a great job exhibiting their Bluefaced Leicesters. The two youngest handlers of the day, Blake & Tyler Johnson 'River Winds Farm', exhibited excellent showmanship skills with their respective entries, and the time they had spent training their sheep really showed. 5th Place

Yearling Bluefaced Leicester Ewe:

Blake Johnson with his yearling ewe 'Belinda'

Tyler Johnson with his ewe lamb 'Dianthus'

Tyler Johnson
Winner of the 'Judge's Choice Award'
for Young Handler
Presented by our UK judge: Mr. John Stott
President of the UK- Bluefaced Leicester Sheep Breeders' Association

Great Lakes ~ Bluefaced Leicester Show

The Bluefaced Leicester Breeders Association (BFLBA)

will be hosting the

1st

Great Lakes ~ Bluefaced Leicester Show

to be held in conjunction with the

Wisconsin Sheep & Wool Festival, Jefferson, WI

September 12th, 2009

at 10:30 AM

Location: Indoor Horse Arena

Judge: Mr. John Stott, President UK- Bluefaced Leicester Sheep Breeders' Association

LAUND FARM, Chipping, Preston, Lancashire, UK

Mr. Stott will also be giving an Educational Presentation titled:

The Bluefaced Leicester "The Finer Points"

held at 1:30 PM Saturday

Located in the Indoor Horse Arena

* Mr. Stott will also be presiding over the 2nd Annual ~ Mule Sheep & BFL Progeny Show

Sunday, September 13th,

and speaking on

Selecting Ewes for the Three-Tier System, at 1:30 PM Sunday in the Indoor Horse Arena.

BFLBA Online Auction - Place Your Bids!

Welcome to the BFLBA Online Auction! Our auction features Bluefaced Leicester and other sheep related items. Click here to access the auction site.

Whether you're looking for actual livestock or a gift for a fiber enthusiast, the auction will no doubt be a great way to buy BFL/sheep related items!

Proceeds from this fundraiser will help defray the cost of a UK judge at next month's first Great Lakes Bluefaced Leicester Show at the Wisconsin Sheep and Wool Festival. The show will feature the UK judge, John Stott, President UK-BFLSBA.

The opportunity to have the president of the UK-BFLSBA judge our BFLs will greatly benefit so many areas--the U.S. BFL breeders and the surrounding communities where the BFLs play a role. John Stott's experience, insight, and knowledge of the breed will allow breeders to further promote the awareness and advancement of the Bluefaced Leicester sheep.

Place your bids!

Thank you for your support!

Press Release: Wisconsin Sheep & Wool Festival

The 1st ~ Great Lakes ~ Bluefaced Leicester Show

The Bluefaced Leicester Breeders Association (BFLBA) will be hosting the first Great Lakes ~ Bluefaced Leicester Show held in conjunction with the Wisconsin Sheep & Wool Festival in Jefferson, Wisconsin on September 11th - 13th, 2009.

The BFLBA will be coordinating its Bluefaced Leicester Show along with the North American Mule Sheep Society's (NAMSS) 2nd Annual Mule Sheep & Bluefaced Leicester Progeny Show. The judge presiding over both the Bluefaced Leicester classes as well as the Mule Show classes will be John Stott the newly elected president of the UK's Bluefaced Leicester Sheep Breeders' Association. John has also agreed to do several educational presentations highlighting the Bluefaced Leicester and the Mule ewe. The BFLBA's Great Lakes ~ Bluefaced Leicester Show, and the NAMSS's Mule Sheep Show will be an excellent opportunity to showcase the Bluefaced Leicester to the sheep industry, for their versatility not only as a purebred sire, but as a crossing sire in the 3-tier breeding scheme for grass fed lamb production too.

The BFLBA and NAMSS would like to thank the UK- BFLSBA for their generous contribution in providing us once again with our guest breeder-judge; and for their continued support of our efforts here in the States promoting the Bluefaced Leicester.

A BIT ABOUT OUR 2009 JUDGE:

John Stott and his family live on and work 'LAUND FARM' which is located in Chipping, Preston, Lancashire, UK. Laund Farm is a 500 acre family farm, which runs approximately 700 hill sheep mainly Swaledales and Beulah Speckled Face producing 400 Mules that are sold each year, plus a 400 ewe Freisland flock for their sheep milking enterprise, and around 30 suckler cows and 20 pedigree Simmental, as well as John's 50 pedigreed Bluefaced Leicesters. On June 3rd 2009, the Stott's and Laund Farm was the host location for NORTH SHEEP '09'. North Sheep is a biennial event run by the UK's National Sheep Association (NSA) an organization which represents UK sheep breeders. North Sheep is an industry event which brings together agricultural companies, sheep farmers and agricultural experts for a day. North Sheep '09' attracted over 9,000 visitors and 250 trade stands from across the sheep sector. Around 100 foreign delegates also flocked to the event which showcased Britain’s 70-plus sheep breeds. We look forward to meeting John and his wife, Christine, in September.

Champion Penrith Sale 2008
John Stott 'LAUND'
(photo courtesy of Wayne Hutchinson 'Farm-Images.co.uk')

1st Great Lakes ~ Bluefaced Leicester Show

Bluefaced Leicester Breeders Association

Great Lakes
Bluefaced Leicester Show

In conjunction with the:
Wisconsin
Sheep & Wool
Festival

September 11 - 13, 2009

Jefferson Fair Park
Jefferson, Wisconsin

Bluefaced Leicester Breeders Association
Breed & Informational Displays

Great Lakes ~ Bluefaced Leicester Show
Judge: John Stott, President UK-BFLSBA
LAUND FARM, Chipping, Preston, Lancashire, UK
Saturday ~ September 12th, 2009
At 10:30 AM

Educational Presentation

The Bluefaced Leicester
"The Finer Points"
John Stott 'Laund Farm" Lancashire, UK
Saturday at 1:30 PM

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