Board of Directors

Winter 2017 President Linda Koeppel (2018) 4808 Warren Rd. Ann Arbor, MI 48105 734-747-8112 [email protected]

American Directors: Greg Deakin (2019) 11191 E. Cameron Road Cuba, IL 61427 Border Leicester 309-338-3294 [email protected]

Jerry Wigglesworth (2017) Association P.O. Box 6 Dwight, KS 66849 785-482-3462 [email protected] Newsletter Colin Siegmund (2018) 47 Fabyan-Woodstock Rd. N. Grosvenordale, CT 06255 860-315-7684 [email protected]

Reister Farms: A Dynamic Operation! Polly Hopkins (2017) 494 Evans Road Jacob & Rachel Reister & Family Chepachet, RI 02814 By KT Jones 401-949-4619 [email protected]

Coleen Smith (2019) Jacob & Rachel Reister of Washougal, Washington, are no strangers to raising 12900 Frolov Dr NE . Both have multi-generational roots running deep in the purebred sheep indus- Gervais, OR 97026 try. However, in the past few years, it has been 503-780-9801 [email protected] this young couple's phenomenal drive, great edu- cational backgrounds and innovative approach Stacy Taylor (2019) that have proven essential in turning their fami- 1467 Ringgold Timblin Rd. ly’s already successful farm into an amazingly Timblin, PA 15778 814-360-1202 dynamic operation. [email protected] With their backgrounds raising purebred sheep, the couple have both seen their share of Treasurer successes inside the show ring; however, it is the Jack Price P & W Sheep Farm performance happening outside the showring 628 N. 1150 East Road that has this young duo excited for the future. Palmer, IL 62556 The transition to a more forage based flock man- 217-502-4082 [email protected] agement style designed to use the abundant grass produced throughout the long growing Webmaster season in southwest Washington has its roots in Jamie Roth marketing decisions incorporated into the farm 350 N. 1st Cuba, IL 61427 almost a decade ago. 309-785-5058 Newly married and looking for a way to add value to the family’s flock, the young [email protected] couple initially set their sights on direct marketing their lamb through farmer’s mar- kets and selling to trendy urban restaurants. From raising laying hens and selling eggs Newsletter Editor Tiffany Deakin to get a foot in the door at an extremely competitive established market, to spending a 21632 N Cameron Road coupious amount of time researching menus and cold calling restaurants, this dynamic Cuba, IL 61427 young duo is finally seeing their hard work pay off. 309-338-8372 With the support of Jacob’s parents, the family has seen their operation blossom [email protected] into an enterprise bursting at the seams and ripe for continued growth. The growth can be measured in many ways; from the addition of home kitchen tested and devel-

1 The Reister Family Continued

oped value-added products over the years, to the incorporation of more traditional Dorset genetics to take advantage of their change in Advertising management styles. With a keen eye on their bottom line, the fami- Rates ly has also taken advantage of wholesale marketing opportunities and now focuses a great deal fo their operation on meeting the demands of their ever expanding grocery and wholesale buyers. DISPLAY ADS A major essential component in the continued farm expansion came in 2017 when the couple de- Size Per Issue 3 Prepaid cided to purchase a historic piece of farmland just 1 page ...... $75...... $200 down the road from their home place. The pristine 1/2 page ...... $45...... $125 farm acreage roots can be traced back to an original At right is Corbyn Reister and his 1/4 page ...... $25...... $70 Washington homestead, through water rights da- Reserve Champion Ewe at the All- Business Card...... $15...... $40 ting back to the early 1900s. American Junior Show purchased from Emerging from a whim to look at the property, Don Bischoff, OR NEWSLETTER the purchase took several months and a number of hoops to seal the deal, but finally closed in November of last year. Since then, the couple DEADLINES has spent hours designing and working on an intensive rotational grazing system that Winter Issue………………….January 15 should fall into place over the next few months. From fencing to focusing on forage de- Spring Issue………………………April 15 velopment, the added unit is a work in progress and labor of love for the couple. Fall Issue……………………...October 20 In order to make all of the components in their ever expanding and changing sys- tem work effectively, the family has had to think outside of the box and hire extra staff SEND ADS AND to take over many of the tasks. This delegation of labor has allowed Jacob to focus more ARTICLES TO: of his energy on farm management and Rachel to continue working in her off farm job. Add two little ones born over the past few years to the daily chaos of the farm and [email protected] the young couple certainly has their hads full. However, with their son Corbyn recently turning six, the family is starting to turn back to their first love of the purebred sheep SEND PAYMENTS industry: showing. While the cross country treks with trailer in tow are still limited, the family is starting to venture back out to a number of state and regional shows. TO: With the addition of a small flock of Border Leicesters for the kids, Rachel admits ABLA the show ring looks a little different than in years past. As she fondly noted, “We now do Jack Price, Treasurer it for fun,” explaining, “We thoroughly enjoy raising our commercial sheep. The com- 628 N. 1150 East Road mercial business has given us a different perspective.” Palmer, IL 62556 The expansion of the family’s vision has been a phenomenal sight to observe over 217-824-2330 [email protected] At left , Jacob skirts a WEBSITE fleece.

CLASSIFIED ADS Ads will run for a one month period of time on our website, At right is the Reister’s www.ablasheep.org, after which booth at the farmers they will be deleted if they are not market. renewed. Text only ads…...... $5.00 Text with one photo...... $10.00 the past decade as they have put their dreams in motion. With an unrivaled drive and Text with two photos ...... $15.00 deep dedication, they have certainly taken a “no fear’ approach to implementing inno- vative concepts into their production and marketing systems. Guided by faith and expe- Please contact the webmaster, rience, their business gambles have paid off in turning Reister Farms into one heck of a Jamie Roth, to place your ad: dynamic operation! [email protected] Check them out online at reisterfarm.com or follow them on Facebook at www.facebook.com/ReisterFarms.

2 President’s Message

Dear Border Leicester Family and Friends: I just wanted to begin my note by Inside this thanking you for all that each of you bring to the ABLA. Issue It all begins with breeding at this beautiful time of year – earlier for many – with the expectation of strong, healthy lambs next year that will continue building the future of our breed.

Your Board asks you first to THANK our recently retired Secretary, Sally Barney, Member Spotlight...... 1 for more than ten years of faithful service to all of us. She, husband Dwight and Neck of the Woods...... 4-5 their family have been shepherds for much of their lives and we all thank them. The Lambing Process ... 6-9 And so, we need someone willing to help with this important position. I know Sally will be happy to help in the transition. The description of duties is printed Futurity Results ...... 10 elsewhere in this newsletter. Lamb Care...... 12

NAILE Open Show...... 16 Another timely and important topic is our discussion of what the “F” and “B” suf- fixes mean on your registration papers. Please note the short explanation below NAILE Junior Show...... 20 and the comments I wrote in the newsletter a few years ago. 2017 Budget ...... 22

Also, there will be two Board of Director positions up for election in April. Asiago Lamb Burgers .... 24 PLEASE consider submitting your name in nomination. Get that cup of coffee, Membership Form ...... 27 adult beverage or whatever and go sit with your sheep. Then write up your bio Calendar ...... 28 and send it to us. Any Board member or I would be happy to answer any ques- tions on this or any other topic anyone may have. Thanks for considering this re- quest.

Bill and I wish you a happy and joy-filled Thanksgiving and Christmas holiday DIRECTORS seasons filled with peace. WANTED!

With gratitude, Linda ABLA Positions Available! We have positions on the Board of Directors opening up in 2018! Message from the Board of Directors If you’d like to be involved with a dedicated group of Border Leicester breeders, let The board asks that all persons registering Border Leicesters familiarize us know. This year we will themselves with the use of the letter”F”. elect two people for a three- year term. An “F” denotes the possible presence of non-white genes, and it stands for If interested, send a brief bio “Factor”. Our sheep can be white (“W”), or non-white (“B”), or if they are white to Linda Koeppel at 4808 but have a non-white ancestor, then they should be registered as “F”. Warren Road, Ann Arbor, MI, or via email to [email protected] An “F” will appear in the official ABLA registration number (not the eartag by April 1. Ballots and bios number). If no color is designated, it will be assumed that the sheep is white and will be sent out April 15 and does not have a colored ancestor. need to be returned by May 1. Announcements of new These coding rules are and have been the policy of our breed for many years. directors will be announced at If a member is not satisfied with this system, we ask that you bring it to our the annual meeting in Wooster over Memorial Day Weekend. attention.

3 Neck of the Woods What’s happening in YOUR neck of the woods? Here’s an update from your Registering Directors.

Sheep

Our best news is an inch and a half - dog themselves through that medium. A good part dish measurement, so it's not really Science - of of it, you will see, is the use of the "hashtag", the best two nights ago, and no runoff. We and using #borderleicester will draw attention

Fill out any ABLA applica- opened up a thirty acre pasture in July, new to our breed and your efforts. When you use tion for registration you may woven wire, new steel posts, new barbed wire: other hashtags - #cutelamb, or #goodmom, for already have or if you do not you can imagine the cost. It has never had example - you will attract a widening audience have a form, please visit the “Registering Sheep” page on the anything on it since the bison except , so which may not know about our breed but will website at www.ablasheep.org it's interesting to see what the sheep like, be introduced to it visually. and download an Application for sumac, for example, that their predecessors did The expert at this sort of publicity is Registration Form. Send all forms not touch. With the rain, the rest of the pasture James Rebanks, the Lake District shepherd who for registering your sheep to: season is coming into focus. The corn/bean raises . He has some twelve American Border Leicester growers might call it a million dollar rain, but thousand followers, that is, regular watchers, Association we Border Leicester folk are somewhat more not to mention the occasional dropins. And of PO Box 231, 305 Lincoln modest. We're gaining, we say, and we'll leave course he has wonderful scenery, and three Wamego, KS 66547 Phone: 785-456-8500 it at that. cute border collies, and three cute kids (his son Fax: 785-456-8599 Jack Price put it exactly: when you're Tom, just born, was displayed a day or two Email: [email protected] going out to the barn, it's tough to bring along a ago) and an Oxford education, and his location

camera. So we will leave the idea of a photo is the favored location of Beatrix Potter, so presentation of Border Leicesters around the there are overtones of Peter Rabbit. Beatrix REGISTRATION nation to someone willing to finance it. It's a raised Herdwicks herself. So Rebanks has FEES fine idea, but from the association's point of things going for him that are not yet ours. Members...... $7.00 view it should be a group effort. I saw some You should imagine that as a member of Non-members ...... 14.00 excellent photos. the 1940 birth pool I am somewhat reluctant to And I must say I see a lot of sheep photos, address any aspect of the technical electronic TRANSFER on Instagram. Which leads me to a request: world, so I will be grateful for your tolerance. may I respectfully suggest that you sign up on You will see, I expect, that what you get out of FEES Instagram (you need not be a Facebook Instagram is a sense of the collegial aspect of Members...... $7.00 participant to do so) and then post the our various enterprises. Work, is what I mean, Non-members ...... $14.00 occasional photo of your flock, your farm, your and the fact that others here and there are locale. In doing so, you will no doubt find and doing the same work and dealing with their Be sure to include all the consider other sheep operations around the own difficulties as well is sustaining. Several of necessary and correct infor- world, and the ways they draw attention to our members do participate, I'm pleased to say, mation on the forms in order to register your sheep. Applications and you will find them, and that are incomplete, incorrect, or enjoy their efforts and lacking fees will be returned to successes. the sender with an explanation of the problem. Applications will And speaking of not be accepted unless an ABLA collegiality: the eartags I Application for Registration Form mentioned in a recent piece is filled out for all animals to be were ordered, arrived, and are registered by the breeder/owner. all in place. All. You will recall I located them through a breeder in England, having seen them - on Instagram.

- Jerry Wigglesworth, Morris County, Kansas

4 The Vitamin D Story The following article was written by Dr. Ben Bartlett of Traunik, Michigan and is reprinted with his permission

This is a story about sheep and vitamin D, The first big miss was the idea that being outside WANTED or really the lack of. It is not a research paper or provided enough vitamin D. an extension bulletin article. It is a personal In the winter in northern latitudes with experience based on mistaken assumptions, shorter days and less intensity, there is less sun- personal observation and finding and explana- shine to provide adequate vitamin D. The grow- tion, commonly known as “learn by your mis- ing coat of also reduces the amount of sun takes”. actually hitting the skin. The next piece of the We have a May lambing flock of sheep in puzzle was the ration. Baleage, or round bale the Upper Peninsula that has occasionally had silage, is great quality feed, but the main source some “crooked” leg issues. We sell most of our of Vitamin D in a forage-based ration is “sun” RECORDING lambs off pasture in November and winter our cured hay. Baleage is not sun-cured and has lim- replacement ewe lambs and usually a few ited sun exposure. SECRETARY lambs that for size or other issues did not make Since we sometimes feed dry hay, sometimes baleage or some years both, this the feeder lamb cut. The ewe lambs are win- could help explain why we saw a problem some tered on one pound of corn, plus baleage and/ After many years of dedicated or dry hay and added vitamin A and E. Over the years and not others, and why we sometimes saw years we have seen some severely bowed in or it in our feeder lambs but not the replacements, years of service to the Border bowed out legs on a few sheep in both groups. or vice versa. Leicester Association, Sally We, A: wondered how we missed those crooked To compound the issue, rations that Barney has resigned as our legs in the ewe lambs when we sorted then in, promote fast growth and enhance the need for recording secretary. more vitamin D. Having the ewe lambs on a B: assumed the crooked legs were why we did- n’t put some of the lambs on the truck, and C: growth ration increased their requirement. The We can not thank her enough for we needed to find which ram was giving us literature also reports that high vitamin A levels those poor legged sheep. increase the need for higher levels of vitamin D, all she has done over the years. In the spring of 2015, we found we had a so there was a double whammy with our addi- significant number, about 20%, of our replace- tion of Vitamin A to our mineral supplements. Please consider getting more The lack of or imbalance of calcium and ments that had very visibly crooked legs, some involved in our great breed as bowed in and some bowed out - even one lamb phosphorus can also cause rickets, but those with both. Other than the crooked legs they minerals were available in adequate amounts. An the new recording secretary. were fine, and most are pregnant to lambs at 1 interesting note, and one that confirmed that this year of age. The few miscellaneous feeder was not just a ram issue, was that after shearing Responsibilities include keeping lambs were fine this year, and it is obvious and turning the ewe lambs back to pasture with minutes of ABLA monthly Board their lambs, about half of the legs became signifi- there was more than a “ram” problem. meetings and being involved in The most obvious cause of crooked cantly more normal. Not all self-corrected, but no legs and young sheep is a vitamin D deficiency, wool and longer days did help. the annual elections, as well as also known as rickets, but these ewe lambs We were walking on the edge of a vita- serving as a representative for were housed outside with lots of sunshine. min deficiency – in some years and in some the Border Leicester breed. Sheep or other ruminants can make the most of sheep, it showed up, but in other years we just got by. So, if I can add vitamins A and E, why not their vitamin requirements except for vitamins A, D and E. Vitamin A is associated with sight D? Our philosophy had been to not feed it if you and comes from green grass; vitamin E is also don't need it and with lots of sunshine, I incor- from green feed and with the mineral Selenium rectly felt the vitamin D needs were met. Wrong! is very important in preventing white muscle This winter you can bet I will have a vitamin A, E SEND TO: disease; and vitamin D is considered the and D supplement in our mineral mix, but in the Linda Koeppel summer we’ll let the sun do the work. "sunshine” vitamin. 4808 Warren Rd. Thanks for reading our story and hope After doing some research about rick- Ann Arbor, MI 48105 ets, I think I have the rest of the story on why you gain from our experience. 734-747-8112 we sporadically had this “crooked leg” problem. [email protected]

The ABLA newsletter is published three times a year and is comprised of member submissions. We value your contributions.

The submission deadline for the next issue is January 15.

Please send your content to Tiffany Deakin at [email protected]

5 Essential Education: Kentucky Producer Hannah Nilsson Tutors Beginning Sheep Producers Reprinted with permission from the July 2017 Sheep Industry News

Hannah Nilsson has learned a lot coming back to Border and Bluefaced call with any questions, and consistently since getting her start in the sheep Leicesters.” they took her up on the offer. industry (after returning to the family Some 25 sheep now call Windsor Wool “A lot of my clients at the time were farm) and is sharing these experiences Farm home. Many will live and die on the fiber artists just getting into this side of the with others. Combine that practical property, as Hannah specializes in the wool wool industry, or beginning hobby farmers. knowledge of what works and what side of the industry. Recent years, however, I started making free farm consultation doesn’t with a passion for teaching, and have brought about a new interest: teaching. visits and a lot of it was because I wanted she’s uniquely qualified to assist the “I think people have this Pollyanna to make sure ‘my’ sheep were going to be growing number of sheep producers in her view of farming, which is why there’s such a taken care of. People said I didn’t sell native Kentucky and surrounding states. need for farming 101 style classes,” she says. sheep, I adopted them out. But I felt like it “I like to talk with people about all “There’s such a growing interest in hobby was important to be there after the sale.” the things I wish I had known when I got farms, and many of the people moving to Early in her journey into the industry, into farming,” says Hannah, who inherited these places have no agriculture background Hannah found a similar mentor in Diana what was left of the family farm in or training. They want to do this more as a Anson (Alpine Acres). That relationship Windsor, Ky. Hannah’s grandmother lifestyle than a business. That’s fine, but still exists today, and has provided a model always hoped that the original 50-acre there’s still a need to educate those people for the way Hannah hopes to help others homestead would continue to be used. about daily life on the farm.” getting into the industry. Her teaching “Grandma wanted this land to be Hannah’s transition to teaching/ evolved into classes at sheep and productive, so we had to figure out what consulting for sheep industry newbies began gatherings within the state and now worked for us so we could honor that wish. when she started selling sheep to other includes classes taught at her place in I started researching sheep and kept producers. She was quick to tell buyers to Windsor and individual consulting trips to

6 prospective and existing farm operations. Your grass and pastures will determine your Investment should be tied to knowledge. “I felt the need to pay it forward,” she stocking rate. “If you don’t know a lot, you’re not says. “The longer I’ve stayed in the “People don’t pay attention to that. allowed to invest a lot. As you gain industry, the more people began to ask my They might have too many sheep for the knowledge, then you can start investing opinions on what they were doing with quality of pasture they have and then they’ll more money.” their own farms. It’s a part of my business add a cow or horses on top of that. You have Many small producers and new hobby that I’d like to grow in the years to come. I to understand what the land can support.” farmers can feel isolated, intimidated or enjoy the opportunity to speak with new Work with the facilities you have. just not know where to go for information producers and to travel to their farms and “Not everyone can build that dream and guidance. Providing this type of help them create a plan for making their barn. Sometimes you have to work with information and mentoring can only help dreams come true.” what’s there, and there’s no shame in that. the industry as a whole. Generally Hannah’s classes and Make your mistakes on paper. For more information, visit consultations begin with a worksheet that “I had a friend, Chet Roberts, who was WindsorWoolFarm.com helps producers zero in on what they want a master builder and he used to tell me this. and how they can get there. We make plenty of mistakes, but we try to make the big ones on paper and not in real Here are some general tips she offers: life.” Start slow. Don’t buy 30 sheep right off the Where are you and where do you want to go? bat, unless you have the knowledge to do so. “With my 101 class, I take people “I always tell beginners to get three through this process. It’s beneficial for or four to start. After a few weeks, you people to talk about this before they get might decide you don’t even like sheep. started.” You can always buy more later.” Find a mentor. Breed what you like. “We all need a truth teller in our lives, “Diana told me this one time and it’s someone who will tell you the good, the bad stuck with me. Ignore what everyone else and the ugly about raising sheep and Hannah Nilsson smiles with one of her says. Find what you like and do that.” farming.” Border Leicester ewes.

7 American Border Leicester Association Board of Director’s Meeting August 9, 2017

Present: Linda Koeppel; Greg Deakin; questions, Jerry moved and Greg Committee Assignments: The Director’s Jerry Wigglesworth; Stacy Taylor; Holliday seconded a motion to approve the will review the list of existing committees. Thomas; Tiffany Deakin; Jack Price; Sally treasurer’s report as sent. The motion Balloting Assistance: There is a group Barney. was approved. who would like ABLA to take advantage of the service they provide to assist The meeting was called to order and the Newsletter: Tiffany reported that she is organizations with elections; after Secretary report was called for. Sally collecting articles for the next newsletter consideration, the Board agreed that they reminded the Director’s that they had which has an October 20 deadline for did not need assistance at this time. Linda received the minutes of the previous submission of articles. will convey this message. meeting, June 12, 2017, electronically and Publicity/Promotion: Linda asked for asked for omissions or corrections. There additional promotional items to include in Next meeting Date: Wednesday, being no action, Greg moved and Jerry the new member packets; Greg will send September 13, 2017. seconded a motion to approve the minutes items to Linda. as sent. The motion was approved. Jack Youth Activities: Holliday reported that There being no further business the presented the Treasury Report reminding the AAJSS had gone well. Holliday shared meeting was adjourned. everyone that they had received a copy that other breeds are giving kids a gift for electronically. Jack asked if the Board participating and suggested that ABLA Respectfully Submitted, wanted to pay the $266 bill for general might want to do the same. Sally Barney – Recording Secretary liability insurance. Jerry moved and Stacy Promotional Video: This project is on seconded a motion to have Jack pay the hold. general liability insurance bill; the motion Border Leicester History: This project was approved. There being no further will be led by Coleen. Treasurer’s Report Sep 1, 2017-Sep 30, 2017 General Fund Beginning Balance $7014.09 Expenditures -$585.55 Income $1957.95 Ending Balance $8386.49 Reconciliation Detail Checks – 1 item 12 Sep 17 1141 Associated Reg. $585.55 TOTAL $585.55 DESIGNATED Fund spending Ass. Reg. $585.55 *no $ expended from funds not listed* Special Funds Futurity $770 (last year was $950) Keystone $200 Keystone Leadline $75 Empire Classic Youth $75 CASH AVAILABLE: $7266.49

OUTSTANDING AND UNRESOLVED I know the Big E is over, have not received an invoice for it. Last year it was paid in April. Keystone & Empire Classic have not sent any invoices either. Futurity will remain open until at least after NAILE.

Respectfully submitted, Jack L. Price Treasurer

8 9 Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival Show May 6 & 7, 2017 West Friendship, MD

WHITE BORDER LEICESTER Marilyn Fogle, Raymond, OH; 2) Warrenton, VA; 3) Echo Leicesters, Deakin Family Farms, Greg Deakin, Lydia Smith, Charlotte, VT YEARLING RAM – 1) & 2) Deakin Cuba, IL; 4) & 5) Overlook Manor CHAMPION RAM – Deakin Family Family Farms, Greg Deakin, Cuba, IL; Farm, Nancy Weik, Warrenton, VA Farms, Tiffany Deakin, Cuba, IL 3) Overlook Manor Farm, Nancy Weik, PAIR OF EWE LAMBS – 1) RESERVE CHAMPION RAM – Warrenton, VA; 4) Marilyn Fogle, Marilyn Fogle, Raymond, OH; 2) Overlook Manor Farm, Nancy Weik, Raymond, OH Overlook Manor Farm, Nancy Weik, Warrenton, VA JUNIOR RAM LAMB – 1) & 4) Warrenton, VA; 3) Deakin Family YEARLING EWE – 1) & 3) Deakin Marilyn Fogle, Raymond, OH; 2) & 3) Farms, Greg Deakin, Cuba, IL; 4) Colin Family Farms, Tiffany Deakin, Cuba, IL; Overlook Manor Farm, Nancy Weik, Siegmund, North Grosvenordale, CT 2) Jackie Lee, North Grosvenordale, CT; Warrenton, VA; 5) Deakin Family CHAMPION EWE – Overlook 4) Willow Manor, Gerald Park, Farms, Greg Deakin, Cuba, IL Manor Farm, Nancy Weik, Warrenton, Palmerton, PA; 5) Thistle Hill, Mallory PAIR OF RAM LAMBS – 1) VA & JoAnn Ketterer, Bernville, PA Overlook Manor Farm, Nancy Weik, RESERVE CHAMPION EWE – PAIR OF YEARLING EWES – 1) Warrenton, VA; 2) Marilyn Fogle, Marilyn Fogle, Raymond, OH Deakin Family Farms, Tiffany Deakin, Raymond, OH FLOCK – 1) Deakin Family Cuba, IL; 2) Willow Manor, Gerald Park, CHAMPION RAM – Deakin Farms, Greg Deakin, Cuba, IL; 2) Palmerton, PA; 3) Thistle Hill, Mallory Family Farms, Greg Deakin, Cuba, IL Overlook Manor Farm, Nancy Weik, & JoAnn Ketterer, Bernville, PA RESERVE CHAMPION RAM – Warrenton, VA; 3) Marilyn Fogle, SENIOR EWE LAMB – 1) & 2) Deakin Family Farms, Greg Deakin, Raymond, OH; 4) Colin Siegmund, Echo Leicesters, Lydia Smith, Charlotte, Cuba, IL North Grosvenordale, CT VT YEARLING EWE – 1) & 2) BEST FLEECE – Deakin Family JUNIOR EWE LAMB – 1) & 2) Overlook Manor Farm, Nancy Weik, Farms, Greg Deakin, Cuba, IL Deakin Family Farms, Tiffany Deakin, Warrenton, VA; 3) Deakin Family PREMIER EXHIBITOR – Cuba, IL; 3) & 4) Overlook Manor Farm, Farms, Greg Deakin, Cuba, IL; 4) Overlook Manor Farm, Nancy Weik, Nancy Weik, Warrenton, VA; 5) Echo Marilyn Fogle, Raymond, OH; 5) Colin Warrenton, VA Leicesters, Lydia Smith, Charlotte, VT Siegmund, North Grosvenordale, CT PAIR OF EWE LAMBS – 1) Deakin PAIR OF YEARLING EWES – 1) NAT. COLORED Family Farms, Tiffany Deakin, Cuba, IL; Overlook Manor Farm, Nancy Weik, BORDER LEICESTER 2) Overlook Manor Farm, Nancy Weik, Warrenton, VA; 2) Deakin Family Warrenton, VA; 3) Echo Leicesters, Farms, Greg Deakin, Cuba, IL; 3) Colin YEARLING RAM – 1) Deakin Lydia Smith, Charlotte, VT Siegmund, North Grosvenordale, CT; Family Farms, Tiffany Deakin, Cuba, CHAMPION EWE – Deakin Family 4) Marilyn Fogle, Raymond, OH; 5) IL; 2) Willow Manor, Gerald Park, Farms, Tiffany Deakin, Cuba, IL Thistle Hill, Mallory & JoAnn Ketterer, Palmerton, PA; 3) Ben & Bentley RESERVE CHAMPION EWE – Bernville, PA Wilson, Valparaiso, IN Jackie Lee, North Grosvenordale, CT SENIOR EWE LAMB – 1) Deakin SENIOR RAM LAMB – 1) Deakin FLOCK – 1) Deakin Family Farms, Family Farms, Greg Deakin, Cuba, IL; Family Farms, Tiffany Deakin, Cuba, Tiffany Deakin, Cuba, IL 2) Echo Leicesters, Lydia Smith, IL; 2) & 3) Echo Leicesters, Lydia BEST FLEECE – Jackie Lee, North Charlotte, VT; 3) Eva Garges, Telford, Smith, Charlotte, VT Grosvenordale, CT PA JUNIOR RAM LAMB – 1) & 2) PREMIER EXHIBITOR – Deakin JUNIOR EWE LAMB – 1) & 3) Overlook Manor Farm, Nancy Weik, Family Farms, Tiffany Deakin, Cuba, IL Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival Show 2 Border Leicesters Averaged $487.50

The Maryland Sheep Festival All Breeds Sale was held in con- The Grand Champion Border Leicester Ewe was a yearling junction with the 44th Annual Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival on bred by Maybe Tomorrow Farm, RI, and sold for $500 to Jo-Ann Friday evening, May 6. Overall, numbers were up slightly from pre- Ketterer, PA. Siegmund Family Farm, CT, bred the Reserve Champi- vious years, with an all-breeds sale average slightly higher than that on Ewe, earning a $475 bid from Marcia Haggie, MD. of 2016, and $200 higher than the 2015 average.

10 11 National Sale at the Great Lakes Sale May 27-28, 2017 Wooster, Ohio

JUDGE: Jim Bandt, OH Combined, the breed saw an average yearling ewe for $800 to Dennis Jones, ME, AUCTIONEER: Gary Saylor, OH on 19 White Border Leicesters and 12 followed by Travis Johnson, OH, selling his SALE TOP: $3,750 Natural Colored Border Leicesters of fourth place ewe to Cathleen Shiff, VA, for BORDER LEICESTER SALE GROSS: $24,000 $774.19. White Border Leicesters sold $725. Bear Hollow Farm, OH, picked up the first, followed by Natural Colored Border next two yearlings in the class, the first BORDER LEICESTER Leicesters. from Jadewood Valley Farms, PA, for $600 3 Yearling Rams $1,100.00 The National Champion Border and the second from Travis Johnson, OH, 1 January Ram Lamb $1,450.00 Leicester Ram honors went to Vast Plains, for $300. Deakin Family Farms, IL, sold a 1 March Ram Lamb $425.00 IL, on their yearling ram. Callie Taylor, PA, yearling for $600 to Thomas Bros. Border 11 Yearling Ewes $834.09 took home the Champion with a $2,000 Leicesters, OH. A pair of Jadewood Valley 2 January Ewe Lambs $600.00 bid. Travis Johnson, OH, bred the Reserve Farms ewes each earned $400 bids, one 1 March Ewe Lamb $300.00 National Champion Ram, a January lamb from Abbi States, PA, and the other from 19 TOTAL HEAD AVG $834.21 that earned a $1,450 bid from Iris Jennifer Wise, PA. LaRochelle, NH. Travis Johnson sold a pair of January NATURAL COLORED BORDER LEICESTER Colin Deakin, IL, sold his yearling ewe lambs, one to Dave Howman & Family, 4 Yearling Rams $1,050.00 ram to Dennis Jones, ME, for $800, and OH, and the other to Blair Steele, PA, for 2 Spring Ram Lambs $275.00 ZNK Border Leicesters, OH, sold theirs to $600 each. Wool Away Farm, IN, sold their t5 Yearling Ewes $580.00 Dave Howman & Family, OH, for $500. March ewe lamb for $300 to Bear Hollow 1 Spring Ewe Lamb $500.00 Wool Away Farm, IN, sold a March ram Farm, OH, concluding the White Border 12 TOTAL HEAD AVG $679.17 lamb for $425 to Melissa Emerling, NY. Leicester Sale. In the ewe division, the National The National Champion Natural The 25th Annual Great Lakes Show Champion was a yearling ewe bred by Colored Border Leicester Ram was a P-W and Sale was held once again on the Wayne Siegmund Family Farm, CT, that sold for Sheep Farm, IL, yearling that sold for $700 County Fairgrounds in Wooster, Ohio. The $1,000 to Cathleen Shiff, VA. The Reserve to Terrance Blake, MA. Tiffany Deakin won 2017 white border Leicester average was National Champion Ewe came from that the Reserve Champion Ram honors, selling up over last year’s average by over $300. same yearling class, selling from Jadewood her yearling to Rebeca & Anthony Wilson, The Natural Colored Border Leicester Valley Farms, PA, to Abbi States, PA, for OH, for $500. Someday Soon Farm, NY, average was up overt the 2016 average as $3,700. sold their yearling, also the highest selling well by $250. Colin Deakin, IL, sold the third place Natural Colored Border Leicester, to Ben Wamsley, IL, for $2,700. Wool Away Farm, IN, sold the first spring ram lamb to Stony Slope, OH, for $250, and the second was a Tiffany Deakin, IL, lamb that sold to Benjamin Miller, PA, for $300. The National Champion and Reserve Champion Ewes both came from the yearling ewe class. Someday Soon Farm, NY, sold their Champion Ewe to Bear Hollow Farm, OH, for $700. Vast Plains, IL, sold their Reserve National Champion Ewe for $700 to Colin Siegmund, CT. Cathleen Shiff, VA, took home a pair of yearling ewes. A Someday Soon Farm ewe was the first at $700, and the second was a P-W Sheep Farm ewe at $500. Cathleen Shiff also purchased a spring ewe lamb from Tiffany Deakin, IL, for $500, concluding the National Border Leicester Sale.

12 Berry, Wyoming, DE All-American Junior Show NATURAL COLORED JUNIOR EWE June 30 - July 1, 2017 LAMB – 1) Benjamin Wamsley, Taylorville, Madison, WI IL; 2) Aidan Thomas, Bowling Green, OH; 3) & 4) Kevin Kitchen, Augusta, WI WHITE SENIOR RAM LAMB – 1) & Bowling Green, OH PAIR OF EWE LAMBS – 1) Heidi Bar- 4) Auretta Wittkopf, Pewaukee, WI; 2) NATURAL COLORED YEARLING kley, Manns Choice, PA; 2) Auretta Wittkopf, Abigail Wamsley, Taylorville, IL; 3) Heidi EWE – 1) & 2) Benjamin Wamsley, Tay- Pewaukee, WI; 3) Benjamin Wamsley, Tay- Barkley, Manns Choice, PA lorville, IL; 3) & 4) Kevin Kitchen, Augus- lorville, IL; 4) Kevin Kitchen, Augusta, WI NATURAL COLORED SENIOR RAM ta, WI YOUNG FLOCK – 1) Heidi Barkley, LAMB – 1) Benjamin Wamsley, Taylor- PAIR OF YEARLING EWES – 1) Manns Choice, PA; 2) Auretta Wittkopf, ville, IL Heidi Barkley, Manns Choice, PA; 2) Ben- Pewaukee, WI WHITE JUNIOR RAM LAMB – 1) jamin Wamsley, Taylorville, IL; 3) Auretta BEST FOUR HEAD OF EWES – 1) Hei- Drew Thomas, Bowling Green, OH; 2) & 4) Wittkopf, Pewaukee, WI; 5) Kevin Kitch- di Barkley, Manns Choice, PA; 2) Auretta Auretta Wittkopf, Pewaukee, WI; 3) Abi- en, Augusta, WI Wittkopf, Pewaukee, WI; 3) Benjamin gail Wamsley, Taylorville, IL WHITE SENIOR EWE LAMB – 1) & Wamsley, Taylorville, IL; 4) Kevin Kitchen, GRAND CHAMPION RAM – Auretta 2) Heidi Barkley, Manns Choice, PA; 3) & Augusta, WI Wittkopf, Pewaukee, WI (White Senior 5) Auretta Wittkopf, Pewaukee, WI; 4) WHITE BEST FLEECE – 1) Heidi Bar- Ram Lamb) Eva Garges, Telford, PA kley, Manns Choice, PA RESERVE GRAND CHAMPION RAM NATURAL COLORED SENIOR EWE NATURAL COLORED BEST FLEECE – – Drew Thomas, Bowling Green, OH LAMB – 1) Benjamin Wamsley, Taylor- 1) Benjamin Wamsley, Taylorville, IL (White Junior Ram Lamb) ville, IL WHITE YEARLING EWES – 1) & 2) WHITE JUNIOR EWE LAMB – 1) Check out the Heidi Barkley, Manns Choice, PA; 3) Au- Corbyn Reister, Washougal, WA; 2) Abi- updated website at retta Wittkopf, Pewaukee, WI; 4) Lena gail Wamsley, Taylorville, IL; 3) & 4) Au- ablasheep.org! Berry, Wyoming, DE; 5) Drew Thomas, retta Wittkopf, Pewaukee, WI; 5) Lena

13 GRAND CHAMPION EWE – Iris Northeast Youth Sheep Show LaRochelle, Webster, NH (Yearling Ewe) RESERVE CHAMPION EWE – Iris July 13 – 16, 2017 LaRochelle, Webster, NH (Junior Ewe West Springfield, Massachusetts Lamb) BEST HEADED EWE – Lydia WHITE BORDER LEICESTERS Webster, NH Smith, Charlotte, VT YEARLING RAM – 1) Lydia Smith, YEARLING EWE – 1) & 2) Iris EXHIBITORS FLOCK – 1) Iris Charlotte, VT LaRochelle, Webster, NH; 3) Lydia Smith, LaRochelle, Webster, NH; 2) Lydia Smith, SENIOR RAM LAMB – 1) & 2) Iris Charlotte, VT; 4) Kaylee McKenna, Charlotte, VT; 3) Kaylee McKenna, Assonet, LaRochelle, Webster, NH; 3) & 4) Kaylee Assonet, MA; 5) Rebecca Delk, Middleton, MA McKenna, Assonet, MA NH BEST FLEECE – Lydia Smith, JUNIOR RAM LAMB – 1) Iris PAIR OF YEARLING EWES – 1) Iris Charlotte, VT LaRochelle, Webster, NH; 2) Lydia Smith, LaRochelle, Webster, NH; 2) Lydia Smith, Charlotte, VT; 3) & 4) Kaylee McKenna, Charlotte, VT; 3) Kaylee McKenna, NATURAL COLORED BORDER Assonet, MA Assonet, MA; 4) Rebecca Delk, Middleton, LEICESTERS PAIR OF RAM LAMBS – 1) Iris NH YEARLING RAM – 1) Terence Blake, LaRochelle, Webster, NH; 2) Lydia Smith, SENIOR EWE LAMB – 1) Iris Ludlow, MA Charlotte, VT; 3) Kaylee McKenna, Assonet, LaRochelle, Webster, NH; 2) Lydia Smith, SENIOR RAM LAMB – 1) & 2) Lydia MA Charlotte, VT Smith, Charlotte, VT; 3) Terence Blake, GRAND CHAMPION RAM – Iris JUNIOR EWE LAMB – 1) & 2) Iris Ludlow, MA LaRochelle, Webster, NH (Senior Ram LaRochelle, Webster, NH; 3) & 4) JUNIOR RAM LAMB – 1) Terence Lamb) Samantha Patti, Green, RI; 5) Kaylee Blake, Ludlow, MA RESERVE CHAMPION RAM – Iris McKenna, Assonet, MA PAIR OF RAM LAMBS – 1) Lydia LaRochelle, Webster, NH (Junior Ram PAIR OF EWE LAMBS – 1) Iris Smith, Charlotte, VT; 2) Terence Blake, Lamb) LaRochelle, Webster, NH; 2) Samantha Ludlow, MA BEST HEADED RAM – Iris LaRochelle, Patti, Green, RI GRAND CHAMPION RAM – Lydia

14 Smith, Charlotte, VT (Senior Ram Lamb) EXHIBITORS FLOCK – Lydia Smith, RESERVE CHAMPION RAM – Lydia Charlotte, VT; 2) Terence Blake, Ludlow, Deakin, Cuba, IL; 2) Deakin Family Farms, Smith, Charlotte, VT (Senior Ram Lamb) MA Cuba, IL; 3) & 4) Auretta Wittkopf, BEST HEADED RAM – Lydia Smith, BEST FLEECE – Lydia Smith, Pewaukee, WI Charlotte, VT Charlotte, VT MARCH RAM LAMB – 1) Auretta YEARLING EWE – 1) Megan Dion, Wittkopf, Pewaukee, WI Gloversville, NY; 2) & 3) Lydia Smith, JUNIOR CHAMPION RAM – Colin Charlotte, VT; 4) & 5) Terence Blake, Wisconsin Deakin, Cuba, IL (February Ram Lamb) Ludlow, MA State Fair RESERVE JUNIOR CHAMPION RAM PAIR OF YEARLING EWES – 1) Lydia – Deakin Family Farms, Cuba, IL (February Smith, Charlotte, VT; 2) Terence Blake, August 3 – 13, 2017 Ram Lamb) Ludlow, MA West Allis, WI PAIR OF RAM LAMBS – 1) Auretta SENIOR EWE LAMB – 1) & 2) Lydia Wittkopf, Pewaukee, WI Smith, Charlotte, VT; 3) Terence Blake, WHITE BORDER LEICESTER — GRAND CHAMPION RAM – Auretta Ludlow, MA YEARLING RAM – 1) & 3) Deakin Wittkopf, Pewaukee, WI (Fall Ram Lamb) JUNIOR EWE LAMB – 1) & 2) Lydia Family Farms, Cuba, IL; 2) Auretta RESERVE GRAND CHAMPION RAM – Smith, Charlotte, VT; 3) Terence Blake, Wittkopf, Pewaukee, WI; 4) Kevin Kitchen, Deakin Family Farms, Cuba, IL (Yearling Ludlow, MA Augusta, WI Ram) PAIR OF EWE LAMBS – 1) Lydia FALL RAM LAMB – 1) Auretta YEARLING EWE – 1) & 2) Auretta Smith, Charlotte, VT; 2) Terence Blake, Wittkopf, Pewaukee, WI; Wittkopf, Pewaukee, WI; 3) & 4) Deakin Ludlow, MA SENIOR CHAMPION RAM – Auretta Family Farms, Cuba, IL; 5) Colin Deakin, GRAND CHAMPION EWE – Megan Wittkopf, Pewaukee, WI (Fall Ram Lamb) Cuba, IL Dion, Gloversville, NY (Yearling Ewe) RESERVE SENIOR CHAMPION RAM PAIR OF YEARLING EWES – 1) RESERVE CHAMPION EWE – Lydia – Deakin Family Farms, Cuba, IL (Yearling Auretta Wittkopf, Pewaukee, WI; 2) Deakin Smith, Charlotte, VT (Senior Ewe Lamb) Ram) Family Farms, Cuba, IL; 3) Kevin Kitchen, BEST HEADED EWE – Megan Dion, FEBRUARY RAM LAMB – 1) Colin Augusta, WI Gloversville, NY FALL EWE LAMB – 1) Auretta

15 Wittkopf, Pewaukee, WI; 2) & 3) Auretta Illinois AFTER 2/15/17) – 1) Norah Young, Wittkopf, Pewaukee, WI Prairie City, IL; 2) & 4) Abby Wamsley, SENIOR CHAMPION EWE – Auretta State Fair Palmer, IL; 3) Ben Wamsley, Palmer, IL Wittkopf, Pewaukee, WI (Yearling Ewe) PAIR OF EWE LAMBS – 1) Ben August 9 – 19, 2017 RESERVE SENIOR CHAMPION EWE Wamsley, Palmer, IL; 2) Abby Wamsley, Springfield, IL – Auretta Wittkopf, Pewaukee, WI (Yearling Palmer, IL Ewe) YEARLING RAM – 1) & 2) Ben GRAND CHAMPION EWE – Norah JANUARY EWE LAMB – 1) Deakin Wamsley, Palmer, IL Young, Prairie City, IL (Yearling Ewe) Family Farms, Cuba, IL SENIOR RAM LAMB (BORN 9/1/16 RESERVE GRAND CHAMPION EWE FEBRUARY EWE LAMB – 1), 2), 3) & – 2/14/17) – 1) Abby Wamsley, Palmer, – Norah Young, Prairie City, IL (Junior Ewe 4) Auretta Wittkopf, Pewaukee, WI IL; 2) Ben Wamsley, Palmer, IL; 3) Lamb) MARCH EWE LAMB – 1) & 2) Kevin Jacqueline Schertz, El Paso, IL YOUNG FLOCK – 1) Ben Wamsley, Kitchen, Augusta, WI JUNIOR RAM LAMB (BORN ON OR Palmer, IL JUNIOR CHAMPION EWE – Auretta AFTER 2/15/17) – 1) & 3) Norah Young, BEST FLEECE – Abby Wamsley, Wittkopf, Pewaukee, WI (February Ewe Prairie City, IL; 2) Abby Wamsley, Palmer, Palmer, IL Lamb) IL; 4) & 5) Ben Wamsley, Palmer, IL PREMIERE EXHIBITOR – Ben RESERVE JUNIOR CHAMPION EWE – PAIR OF RAM LAMBS – 1) Abby Wamsley, Palmer, IL Auretta Wittkopf, Pewaukee, WI (February Wamsley, Palmer, IL; 2) Norah Young, Ewe Lamb) Prairie City, IL; 3) Ben Wamsley, Palmer, PAIR OF EWE LAMBS – 1) Deakin IL New Jersey Family Farms, Cuba, IL; 2) Auretta GRAND CHAMPION RAM – Ben Wittkopf, Pewaukee, WI; 3) Kevin Kitchen, Wamsley, Palmer, IL (Yearling Ram) State Fair Augusta, WI RESERVE GRAND CHAMPION RAM August 4 – 13, 2017 GRAND CHAMPION EWE – Auretta – Abby Wamsley, Palmer, IL (Senior Ram Augusta, NJ Wittkopf, Pewaukee, WI (Yearling Ewe) Lamb) RESERVE GRAND CHAMPION EWE – YEARLING EWE – 1) Norah Young, YEARLING RAM – 1) Amanda Agne, Auretta Wittkopf, Pewaukee, WI (Yearling Prairie City, IL; 2) & 3) Ben Wamsley, Lafayette, NJ Ewe) Palmer, IL JUNIOR RAM LAMB – 1) Dana Mac- EXHIBITOR’S FLOCK – 1) Deakin PAIR OF YEARLING EWES – 1) Ben Donald, Matamoras, PA; 2) Logan Mac- Family Farms, Cuba, IL; 2) Auretta Wamsley, Palmer, IL Donald, Matamoras, PA Wittkopf, Pewaukee, WI; 3) Kevin Kitchen, INTERMEDIATE EWE LAMB GRAND CHAMPION RAM – Amanda Augusta, WI (BORN 1/1/17 – 2/14/17) – 1) Ben Agne, Lafayette, NJ PREMIER EXHIBITOR – Auretta Wamsley, Palmer, IL RESERVE GRAND CHAMPION RAM Wittkopf, Pewaukee, WI JUNIOR EWE LAMB (BORN ON OR – Dana MacDonald, Matamoras, PA JUNIOR EWE LAMB – 1) Kayla Mac- Donald, Matamoras, PA; 2) Logan Mac- Congratulations to Auretta Wittkopf for her 3rd Donald, Matamoras, PA Overall Supreme Champion Ewe at the Wisconsin GRAND CHAMPION EWE – Kayla MacDonald, Matamoras, PA State Fair RESERVE GRAND CHAMPION EWE – Logan MacDonald, Matamoras, PA

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16 Oregon State Fair August 25 – September 5, 2017 Salem, OR

YEARLING RAM – 1) & 2) Susie Wilson, PAIR OF YEARLING EWES – 1) Coleen vais, OR; 2) Susie Wilson, Canby, OR Canby, OR Smith, Gervais, OR; 2) Susie Wilson, Canby, FLOCK – 1) Coleen Smith, Gervais, OR; INTERMEDIATE RAM LAMB – 1) & 2) OR; 3) Brin McAtee-Rosenau, Prineville, OR 2) Susie Wilson, Canby, OR Coleen Smith, Gervais, OR; 3) Correy INTERMEDIATE EWE LAMB – 1) & 2) BEST PAIR – 1) Coleen Smith, Gervais, McAtee, Prineville, OR; 4) Loren Heath, Loren Heath, Yamhill, OR; 3) & 4) Coleen OR; 2) Susie Wilson, Canby, OR; 3) Brin Yamhill, OR Smith, Gervais, OR McAtee-Rosenau, Prineville, OR JUNIOR RAM LAMB – 1) Coleen Smith, JUNIOR EWE LAMB – 1) Brin McAtee- Gervais, OR; 2) & 3) Susie Wilson, Canby, Rosenau, Prineville, OR; 2) Coleen Smith, OR; 4) & 5) Brin McAtee-Rosenau, Prineville, Gervais, OR; 3) & 4) Susie Wilson, Canby, OR OR PAIR OF EWE LAMBS – 1) Loren PAIR RAM LAMBS – 1) Coleen Smith, Heath, Yamhill, OR; 2) Coleen Smith, Ger- NEED TO CONTACT Gervais, OR; 2) Susie Wilson, Canby, OR; 3) vais, OR; 3) Susie Wilson, Canby, OR ASSOCIATED GRAND CHAMPION RAM – Coleen GRAND CHAMPION EWE – Loren Smith, Gervais, OR (Intermediate Ram Heath, Yamhill, OR (Intermediate Ewe SHEEP REGISTRY? Lamb) Lamb) PO Box 231 • 305 Lincoln Wamego, KS 66547 RESERVE GRAND CHAMPION RAM – RESERVE GRAND CHAMPION EWE – Phone: 785/456-8500 Coleen Smith, Gervais, OR (Junior Ram Coleen Smith, Gervais, OR (Yearling Ewe) Fax: 785/456-8599 Lamb) YOUNG FLOCK – 1) Coleen Smith, Email: [email protected] YEARLING EWE – 1) & 2) Coleen Gervais, OR; 2) Susie Wilson, Canby, OR; 3) Smith, Gervais, OR; 3) & 5) Susie Wilson, Loren Heath, Yamhill, OR Canby, OR; 4) Loren Heath, Yamhill, OR GET OF SIRE – 1) Coleen Smith, Ger-

17 Nancy Weik, VA; 2) Lili Weik, VA; 3) NATURAL COLORED BORDER LEICESTER Maryland State Marcia Haggie, MD RAM UNDER 2 YEARS – 1) Olivia Fair PAIR OF YEARLINGS – 1) Nancy Dutton, MD Weik, VA; 2) Brietta Latham, MD SENIOR RAM LAMB – 1) & 2) Nancy August 25 – September 5, 2017 SENIOR EWE LAMB – 1) Eva Garges, Welk, VA Salem, OR PA; 2) & 3) Nancy Weik, VA PAIR OF SENIOR RAM LAMBS – 1) PAIR OF SENIOR EWE LAMBS – 1) Nancy Weik, VA WHITE BORDER LEICESTER Nancy Weik, VA EARLY JUNIOR RAM LAMB – 1) & 3) RAM UNDER 2 YEARS – 1) Marcia EARLY JUNIOR EWE LAMB – 1) Nancy Weik, VA; 2) Jenna Bilyeu, PA Haggie, MD; 2) Nancy Weik, VA; 3) & 5) Rohan Weik, MD; 2) & 3) Nancy Weik, VA LATE JUNIOR RAM LAMB – 1) Jenna Kallan Latham, MD; 4) Brietta Latham, MD LATE JUNIOR EWE LAMB – 1) & 2) Bilyeu, PA; 2) Nancy Weik, VA; 3) Lili Weik, SENIOR RAM LAMB – 1) & 2) Lili Weik, VA; 3) Rohan Weik, MD; 4) Lena VA; 4) Laura Dutton, MD; 5) Karianna Krishen Weik, MD Berry, DE; 5) Kallan Latham, MD Strickhouser, MD PAIR OF SENIOR RAM LAMBS – 1) PAIR OF JUNIOR EWE LAMBS – 1) PAIR OF JUNIOR RAM LAMBS – 1) Krishen Weik, MD Nancy Weik, VA; 2) Lili Weik, VA; 3) Rohan Jenna Bilyeu, PA; 2) Laura Dutton, MD EARLY JUNIOR RAM LAMB – 1) & 3) Weik, MD; 4) Kallan Latham, MD; 5) CHAMPION RAM – Jenna Bilyeu, PA Nancy Weik, VA; 2) Marcia Haggie, MD Brietta Latham, MD RESERVE CHAMPION RAM – Nancy LATE JUNIOR RAM LAMB – 1) & 2) CHAMPION EWE – Nancy Weik, VA Weik, VA Lili Weik, VA; 3) Brietta Latham, MD; 4) RESERVE CHAMPION EWE – Eva EWE UNDER 2 YEARS – 1) & 3) Nancy Laura Dutton, MD; 5) Marcia Haggie, MD Garges, PA Weik, VA; 2) & 4) Jenna Bilyeu, PA PAIR OF JUNIOR RAM LAMBS – 1) PAIR OF LAMBS, ANY AGE – 1) PAIR OF YEARLING EWES – 1) Nancy Nancy Weik, VA; 2) Lili Weik, VA; 3) Marcia Nancy Weik, VA; 2) Lili Weik, VA; 3) Weik, VA; 2) Jenna Bilyeu, PA Haggie, MD; 4) Brietta Latham, MD Marcia Haggie, MD; 4) Brietta Latham; 5) SENIOR EWE LAMB – 1) & 2) Nancy CHAMPION RAM – Marcia Haggie, Kallan Latham Weik, VA MD PEN OF 4 LAMBS – 1) Nancy Weik, PAIR OF SENIOR EWE LAMBS – 1) RESERVE CHAMPION RAM – Nancy VA; 2) Lili Weik, VA; 3) Marcia Haggie, MD Nancy Weik, VA Weik, VA EXHIBITORS YOUNG FLOCK – 1) EARLY JUNIOR EWE LAMB – 1) & 3) EWE UNDER 2 YEARS – 1) & 4) Nancy Weik, VA; 2) Lili Weik, VA; 3) Junior Ewe Lamb, PA; 2) & 4) Nancy Weik, Nancy Weik, VA; 2) Lena Berry, DE; 3) & 5) Marcia Haggie, MD; 4) Kallan Latham, MD; VA Lili Weik, VA 5) Brietta Latham, MD LATE JUNIOR EWE LAMB – 1) & 3) PAIR OF YEARLING EWES – 1) FLOCK – 1) Nancy Weik, VA; 2) Lili Jenna Bilyeu, PA; 2) & 4) Lili Weik, VA; 5) Weik, VA; 3) Marcia Haggie, MD Laura Dutton, MD PAIR OF JUNIOR EWE LAMBS – 1) Jenna Bilyeu, PA; 2) Nancy Weik, VA; 3) Lili Weik, VA; 4) Karianna Strickhouser, MD Congrats to CHAMPION EWE – Jenna Bilyeu, PA Nancy RESERVE CHAMPION EWE – Nancy Weik Weik, VA and her PAIR OF LAMBS, ANY AGE – 1) Nancy Weik, VA; 2) Lili Weik, VA; 3) Laura Dutton, Supreme MD; 4) Karianna Strickhouser, MD Champion PEN OF 4 LAMBS – 1) Jenna Bilyeu, Wool PA; 2) Nancy Weik, VA Breeds EXHIBITORS YOUNG FLOCK – 1) Jenna Bilyeu, PA; 2) Nancy Weik, VA; 3) Lili Ewe! Weik, VA; 4) Karianna Strickhouser, MD FLOCK – 1) Jenna Bilyeu, PA; 2) Nancy Weik, VA

18 19 National Border Leicester Show at the Big E Judge: Duane Bauck, MN

WHITE BORDER LEICESTERS Siegmund, North Grosvenor, CT; 2) 113# Ram Lamb) YEARLING RAM – 1) 190# Deakin Iris LaRochelle, Webster, NH; 3) 130# RESERVE GRAND CHAMPION RAM – Family Farms, Cuba, IL Travis Johnson, Minerva, OH; 4) & 5) Irene Travis Johnson, Minerva, OH (Intermediate SENIOR RAM LAMB – 1) 174# Nebiker, N. Smithfield, RI Ram Lamb) Travis Johnson, Minerva, OH; 2) 173# & 3) PAIR OF RAM LAMBS – 1) Travis BEST HEADED RAM – Maybe 185# Iris LaRochelle, Webster, NH Johnson, Minerva, OH; 2) Colin Siegmund, Tomorrow Farm, Chepachet, RI SENIOR CHAMPION RAM – Travis North Grosvenor, CT; 3) Iris LaRochelle, YEARLING EWE CLASS 1 – 1) 195# Johnson, Minerva, OH (Senior Ram Lamb) Webster, NH; 4) Maybe Tomorrow Farm, Deakin Family Farms, Cuba, IL; 2) 200# & 3) RESERVE SENIOR CHAMPION RAM Chepachet, RI; 5) Irene Nebiker, N. 185# Maybe Tomorrow Farm, Chepachet, RI; – Iris LaRochelle, Webster, NH (Senior Ram Smithfield, RI 4) Iris LaRochelle, Webster, NH; 5) Travis Lamb) JUNIOR CHAMPION RAM – Colin Johnson, Minerva, OH INTERMEDIATE RAM LAMB – 1) Siegmund, North Grosvenor, CT (Junior YEARLING EWE CLASS 2 – 1) 204# & 160# Travis Johnson, Minerva, OH; 2) Ram Lamb) 5) Colin Siegmund, North Grosvenor, CT; 2) 124# Deakin Family Farms, Cuba, IL; 3) RESERVE JUNIOR CHAMPION ram – 195# Iris LaRochelle, Webster, NH; 3) 187# 161# & 5) Colin Siegmund, North Travis Johnson, Minerva, OH Travis Johnson, Minerva, OH; 4) Colin Grosvenor, CT; 4) Maybe Tomorrow Farm, (Intermediate Ram Lamb) Deakin, Cuba, IL Chepachet, RI GRAND CHAMPION RAM – Colin PAIR OF YEARLING EWES – 1) Maybe JUNIOR RAM LAMB – 1) 124# Colin Siegmund, North Grosvenor, CT (Junior Tomorrow Farm, Chepachet, RI; 2) Iris

20 LaRochelle, Webster, NH; 3) Colin Siegmund, North Grosvenor, CT; 4) Travis Johnson, Minerva, OH; 5) Deakin Family Farms, Cuba, IL SENIOR EWE LAMB – 1) 155# Iris LaRochelle, Webster, NH; 2) 131# Travis Johnson, Minerva, OH; 3) 112# Eva Garges, Telford, PA; 4) & 5) Deakin Family Farms, Cuba, IL SENIOR CHAMPION EWE – Colin Siegmund, North Grosvenor, CT (Yearling Ewe Class 2) RESERVE SENIOR CHAMPION EWE – Iris LaRochelle, Webster, NH (Yearling Ewe Class 2) INTERMEDIATE EWE LAMB – 1) 125#, 2) 135# & 4) Colin Siegmund, North Grosvenor, CT; 3) 118# Jackie Lee, N Grosvenordale, CT; 5) Maybe Tomorrow Farm, Chepachet, RI JUNIOR EWE LAMB – 1) 132# Iris LaRochelle, Webster, NH; 2) 108# Samantha Patti, Greene, RI; 3) 104# Lena Berry, Wyoming, DE; 4) & 5) Irene Nebiker, N. Smithfield, RI PAIR OF EWE LAMBS – 1) Colin Siegmund, North Grosvenor, CT; 2) Iris LaRochelle, Webster, NH; 3) Maybe Tomorrow Farm, Chepachet, RI; 4) Travis Johnson, Minerva, OH; 5) Samantha Patti, Greene, RI JUNIOR CHAMPION EWE – Colin Siegmund, North Grosvenor, CT (Intermediate Ewe Lamb) RESERVE JUNIOR CHAMPION EWE – Colin Siegmund, North Grosvenor, CT (Intermediate Ewe Lamb) GRAND CHAMPION EWE – Colin Siegmund, North Grosvenor, CT (Yearling Ewe Class 2) RESERVE GRAND CHAMPION EWE – Iris LaRochelle, Webster, NH (Yearling Ewe Class 2) BEST HEADED EWE – Lydia Smith, Charlotte, VT EXHIBITOR’S FLOCK – 1) Colin Siegmund, North Grosvenor, CT; 2) Maybe Tomorrow Farm, Chepachet, RI; 3) Travis Johnson, Minerva, OH; 4) Iris LaRochelle, Webster, NH; 5) Deakin Family Farms, Cuba, IL BREEDER’S FLOCK – 1) Colin Siegmund, North Grosvenor, CT; 2) Maybe Tomorrow Farm, Chepachet, RI; 3) Travis Johnson, Minerva, OH; 4) Iris LaRochelle, Webster, NH; 5) Deakin Family Farms, Cuba, IL

21 GET OF SIRE – 1) Colin Siegmund, Cuba, IL (Yearling Ram) BEST HEADED RAM – Sarah Jakeman, North Grosvenor, CT; 2) Maybe Tomorrow INTERMEDIATE RAM LAMB – 1) 131# Canajoharie, NY Farm, Chepachet, RI; 3) Iris LaRochelle, Jenna Bilyeu, State College, PA; 2) 112# YEARLING EWE CLASS 1 – 1) 225# Jenna Webster, NH; 4) Travis Johnson, Minerva, Terence Blake, Ludlow, MA; 3) 109# Lydia Bilyeu, State College, PA; 2) 185# & 4) Sarah OH Smith, Charlotte, VT Jakeman, Canajoharie, NY; 3) 215# Tiffany BEST FLEECE – Lydia Smith, Charlotte, JUNIOR RAM LAMB – 1) 130# Sarah Deakin, Cuba, IL; 5) Jackie Lee, N VT Jakeman, Canajoharie, NY; 2) 94# Terence Grosvenordale, CT PREMIER EXHIBITOR – Iris Blake, Ludlow, MA YEARLING EWE CLASS 2 – 1) 177# Grace LaRochelle, Webster, NH PAIR OF RAM LAMBS – 1) Sarah Davis, Gloversville, NY; 2) 199# & 3) 182# PREMIER BREEDER – Colin Jakeman, Canajoharie, NY; 2) Lydia Smith, Jackie Lee, N Grosvenordale, CT; 4) Jenna Siegmund, North Grosvenor, CT Charlotte, VT; 3) Jenna Bilyeu, State College, Bilyeu, State College, PA; 5) Sarah Jakeman, PA; 4) Terence Blake, Ludlow, MA Canajoharie, NY NATURAL COLORED BORDER LEICESTER JUNIOR CHAMPION RAM – Jenna PAIR OF YEARLING EWES – 1) Jackie Lee, YEARLING RAM – 1) 230# Colin Bilyeu, State College, PA (Intermediate Ram N Grosvenordale, CT; 2) Sarah Jakeman, Siegmund, North Grosvenor, CT; 2) 183# Lamb) Canajoharie, NY; 3) Jenna Bilyeu, State College, Tiffany Deakin, Cuba, IL; 3) 191# Terence RESERVE JUNIOR CHAMPION RAM – PA; 4) Sarah DeLiberis, Coventry, RI; 5) Tiffany Blake, Ludlow, MA Sarah Jakeman, Canajoharie, NY (Junior Ram Deakin, Cuba, IL SENIOR RAM LAMB – 1) 160# & 2) 168# Lamb) SENIOR EWE LAMB – 1) 124# & 4) Lydia Sarah Jakeman, Canajoharie, NY; 3) 150# GRAND CHAMPION RAM – Colin Smith, Charlotte, VT; 2) 102# & 3) 108# Jenna Tiffany Deakin, Cuba, IL; 4) Jenna Bilyeu, State Siegmund, North Grosvenor, CT (Yearling Bilyeu, State College, PA College, PA; 5) Lydia Smith, Charlotte, VT Ram) SENIOR CHAMPION EWE – Jenna Bilyeu, SENIOR CHAMPION RAM – Colin RESERVE GRAND CHAMPION RAM – State College, PA (Yearling Ewe Class 1) Siegmund, North Grosvenor, CT (Yearling Ram) Jenna Bilyeu, State College, PA (Intermediate RESERVE SENIOR CHAMPION EWE – RESERVE SENIOR RAM – Tiffany Deakin, Ram Lamb) Grace Davis, Gloversville, NY (Yearling Ewe Class 2) INTERMEDIATE EWE LAMB – 1) 126# Sarah Jakeman, Canajoharie, NY; 2)115# Grace Davis, Gloversville, NY; 3) 109# Jenna Bilyeu, State College, PA; 4) Terence Blake, Ludlow, MA; 5) Maegann McSpirit, Gloversville, NY JUNIOR EWE LAMB – 1) 106# Tiffany Deakin, Cuba, IL PAIR OF EWE LAMBS – 1) Lydia Smith, Charlotte, VT; 2) Sarah Jakeman, Canajoharie, NY; 3) Jenna Bilyeu, State College, PA; 4) Tiffany Deakin, Cuba, IL JUNIOR CHAMPION EWE – Sarah Jakeman, Canajoharie, NY (Intermediate Ewe Lamb) RESERVE JUNIOR CHAMPION EWE – Tiffany Deakin, Cuba, IL (Junior Ewe Lamb) GRAND CHAMPION EWE – Jenna Bilyeu, State College, PA (Yearling Ewe Class 1) RESERVE GRAND CHAMPION EWE – Grace Davis, Gloversville, NY (Yearling Ewe Class 2) BEST HEADED EWE – Tiffany Deakin, Cuba, IL EXHIBITOR’S FLOCK – 1) Sarah Jakeman, Canajoharie, NY; 2) Jenna Bilyeu, State College, PA; 3) Lydia Smith, Charlotte, VT; 4) Tiffany Deakin, Cuba, IL BREEDER’S FLOCK – 1) Sarah Jakeman, Canajoharie, NY; 2) Jenna Bilyeu, State College, PA; 3) Lydia Smith, Charlotte, VT; 4) Tiffany Deakin, Cuba, IL GET OF SIRE – 1) Sarah Jakeman,

22 23 MSU Expert: Ethnic Lamb Market Stable And Profitable For Farmers By Emma Hopkins, Indiana Correspondent Reprinted with permission from Farm World

In the typical U.S. Household, lamb is Producers who plan on selling to this demand peaks, he said Muslim holidays can not usually what’s for dinner. According to clientele also need to keep in mind the be a moving target because they change each an expert at Michigan State University, it is specific religious protocols such groups year based on the lunar calendar. He because of this that some American sheep prefer for slaughter. Ehrhardt said the suggested looking up Muslim holiday breeders have found a market for their main two are halal, in the Muslim calendars online or developing relationships lamb in urban areas, where immigrants of tradition, and kosher, in the Jewish with such clientele so they can guide you on other countries more familiar with lamb tradition. when demand may peak. reside. In Detroit, where he conducted much Ehrhardt said according to his research For countries in the Middle East and of his research, small butcher shops exist and experience, more information on the parts of Africa and Europe, sheep and goat that will prepare the accordingly, ethnic market would be helpful for meat are common in both everyday and especially in Dearborn County. He said producers trying to reach it. “It if is celebratory meals. Emigrants of those many sales of lamb to the ethnic market profitable and stable, some might ask why countries to the United States, as well as are done through farmgate sales and to we aren’t promoting the ethnic market more. people of certain religions, make up a wholesalers and retailers at public It is because there are a lot of little groups of market here for lamb called by some “the markets. people wanting different types of lamb, it’s ethnic market.” In general, Ehrhardt said the ethnic hard to target and a lot of us don’t Richard Ehrhardt, a professor and market prefers lamb that is fresh and understand the market.” small ruminant specialist at MSU, is relatively lean. Other specifications come For now, farmers interested on considered an expert on this market down to exactly who is buying. Italian and learning more about the ethnic market in because he raised sheep in New York and Greek groups, for instance, prefer small, their area should ask other producers in sold them in the New York City ethnic “milk-fed” lambs of 35-55 pounds. These their area, any ethnic clientele they may market for several years before moving to are very young lambs sold just after know personally and their local marketing Michigan. He was also funded by the weaning. coordinator. American Lamb Board to research and Muslim, or Halal, lambs, on the other “I would say the marketing coordinator describe the ethnic market for lamb to hand, are preferred at 80-115 pounds, at the public auctions would be a good start, other sheep producers. finished with uniform fat cover. because they’ll be able to tell you what they Ehrhardt spoke at a recent Michigan “The good thing about this market is sell, and they usually have the best interest Sheep Producers meeting and symposium the quality standards can be met with of making you happy and the buyer happy,” on the topic in Lansing. “There is a very lower input system,” Ehrhardt pointed Ehrhardt explained. diverse market, and if you look at all the out. “So, if you have a grazing-based varied ethnic enclaves of various groups, program and you’re not feeding a lot of they interestingly are all looking for grain, that’s a pretty good fit for this something a little bit different – which market because they don’t need a lot of DON’T FORGET TO means there are a whole lot of different grain; they’re looking for a leaner sheep.” PAY YOUR DUES lambs of different ages and types that can While parts of this market are stable, fit into this market,” he said. such as demand for Halal lambs year- For example, he said those from round, Ehrhardt said demand in other Pay by February 28th to Lebanon prefer lambs a little more finished groups exhibits peaks throughout the year make sure you’re than Pakistani people, who tend to cook during specific holidays. included in the annual their meat in stew, or West African people, “At different times of the year there Breeder’s Directory who prefer the strong flavor that comes are a lot of little peaks of demand for from the meat of older, leaner, sheep. different types of lamb,” he said. “For Fill out the form at the “What is interesting is that we can instance, around the Christian holidays back of this newsletter sell, for example, to the Italian market milk such as Christmas and Easter, there are and mail to: -fed lambs directly off their moms, and we always peaks in the ethnic market for Treasurer: Jack Price can also sell, in the same truck, lean, old these small lambs. The rest of the year, not 628 N. 1150 East Road Palmer, IL 62556 ewes to West African clients, who prefer a so much.” 217-502-4082 very strong flavor,” he pointed out. “So While Jewish, Greek and Italian different groups prefer very different holidays tend to follow Christian holiday things.”

24 APHIS No Longer Providing Free Plastic Scrapie Tags

APHIS is providing only metal tags eradication. APHIS No Longer Providing free of charge to producers and others For more information on how to Free Plastic Scrapie Tags who handle sheep and . Plastic purchase tags and applicators, visit To support animal disease tags and applicators for metal and https://www.aphis.us da.gov/ traceability and scrapie eradication plastic tags will remain available for animalhealth/scrapie-tags. efforts, the United States Department purchase directly from approved tag Note: The American Sheep Industry of Agriculture's Animal and Plant manufactures. Association and other stakeholder groups Health Inspection Service has These changes will reduce APHIS continue to work with USDA on provided both metal and plastic ear tag and applicator costs while still alternatives to this new policy, including tags and applicators to sheep and goat providing sheep and goat producers increasing the appropriations designated producers – at no cost – since fiscal with a free identification device. to the scrapie eradication program. year 2002. APHIS will provide a limited number After a funding reduction in FY of plastic tags to producers newly 2012, APHIS used specific, no-year enrolled in the Scrapie Free Flock funding (for scrapie and ADT) to Certification Program who submit Back issues of the ABLA continue purchasing the tags and tissues for scrapie surveillance in newsletter are distributing them free of cost to order to encourage on-farm scrapie available for your producers. These no-year funds were surveillance. reading pleasure at exhausted in fiscal year 2017. While The agency will continue to work www.ablasheep.org the Agency remains committed to ADT closely in partnership with states and efforts, beginning Oct. 1 of this year, industry to achieve scrapie

25 STANDARD OF EXCELLENCE Applies to both white and natural colored Border Leicesters

HEAD & NECK (10 Points): HEAD: High, erect ears, spots on ears permissible, Roman nose, black nose and lips (dark mottled with grey acceptable), No mottling on muzzle, both sexes polled; NECK: Moderate length, fitting into shoulders gracefully FOREQUARTER (5 Points): SHOULDERS: Well rounded LEGS: Straight, wide apart, no wool below knees BODY (15 Points): CHEST: Deep and wide, but not fat RIBS: Well---sprung, long, showing no signs of excess fat BACK: Broad, long and level, somewhat narrower in front than rear, hindquarters should be 1/3 or less in proportion WOOL COVER: Belly and armpits well---covered with wool (minimum of skin) and con- sistent with balance of fleece HINDQUARTERS (10 Points): HIPS: Level, smooth and wide apart THIGHS: Deep and full LEGS: Straight, wide apart, free of wool below hocks, no evidence of low pasterns; black hooves UDDER & SCROTUM: Ewes – Udder should show evidence of two good teats; Rams – Testicles well-developed, hanging down a distance from the body

CONDITION (10 Points): Animals should be in working condition, well-muscled, and not overly fat or thin.

GENERAL APPEARANCE (10 Points): STANCE: Overall appearance to be regal in structure; QUALITY: should be strong-boned; Rams to appear masculine; Ewes to appear feminine

WOOL (40 Points): Locks with purled tips ending in a curl, high luster, minimum of kemp hair, uniform fleece and belly wool; no black spots in white wool, no white spots in black wool

The fleece weight from mature females ranges from 8 to 12 pounds with a yield of 65% to 80%. The staple length of the fleece ranges from 5-10 inches with a numeric count of 36 to 48, which is 38.5 to 30.0 microns.

Border Leicesters are typically shown with 3-5 months of wool growth, so that the judge can accurately evaluate the fleece, one of the most important characteristics of the breed. They are relatively easy fit for exhibition. They should ap- pear clean and neat, but never shampooed, as this would remove the natural oil from the wool. A light spritzing with lukewarm water can emphasize the natural curl of the fleece, but it needs to be done well before the show so that the dampened locks have time to dry thoroughly. Stray locks may be trimmed, but Border Leicesters should not be combed, carded, or blocked, which would disturb the natural lock formation and detract from the character of the fleece.

A ram at maturity should weigh 175-300 pounds and stand about 32 inches at the shoulder. He should have a wide, level back. Ewes usually weigh 150-225 pounds.

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