Animal of the Month

May: Border Leicester ewe, black

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Hello! I am a Border Leicester ewe. My daughter and I are the black sheep of the Museum. No, seriously! I am literally a black sheep. Whether black or white, we Border Leicesters have long wool on our bodies, but our heads and legs are wool free. We are raised for both our meat and our wool. Please come visit me. I will get shorn during the Museum’s Sheep Shearing Festival on the Victoria Day long weekend in May.

I had two lambs early this spring, whose father had white wool. Come find out what colour their wool turned out to be.

Animal of the Month Archives

• April 2012 - Berkshire pig
• March 2012 - Blonde d’Aquitaine beef cow
• February 2012 - Jersey Cow
• January 2012 - Limousin Cow
• December 2011 - Black Angus Cow
• November 2011 - Hampshire Ram
• October 2011 - Outside Hutch Rabbit
• September 2011 - Guernsey Cow
• August 2011 - Queen Bee
• July 2011 - Canadian Mare
• June 2011 - Rhode Island Red Hen
• May 2011 - Angora Goat
• April 2011 - Hampshire Sow
• March 2011 - Boer goat