We regularly show sheep and fleeces at a premier a premier East Coast show, Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival (Howard County, Maryland), fleeces at the New York Sheep & Wool Festival.
2024 Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival
Champion Fine White Ram
Best White Fine Fleece
Champion Natural Colored Fine Ram
Reserve Champion Natural Colored Fine Ram
Reserve Champion Natural Colored Fine Ewe
Best Natural Colored Fine Fleece
Fleece Show: 3rd, 4th place, and honorable mention White Fine
2023 Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival
Supreme Fleece (Silver Yearling Ram)
Champion White Fine Ram, Ewe
Best White Fine Fleece
Best Natural Colored Fine Fleece
Fleece Show: 2nd place Natural Colored Fine, 2nd place Merino, 4th place White Fine
2022 New York Sheep & Wool Festival Fleece Show
Supreme Fleece
1st and 2nd places, Natural Colored Fine
2nd place White Fine
2022 Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival
Champion Natural Colored Fine Ram, Ewe
Reserve Champion Natural Colored Fine Ram, Ewe
Best Natural Colored Fine Fleece
Champion White Fine Ram
Reserve Champion White Fine Ewe
Best White Fine Fleece
Fleece Show: 1st, 2nd, and 4th place Natural Colored Fine; 3rd and 4th White Fine
2017 New York Sheep & Wool Festival
2nd Place White Fine Wool Fleece
2017 Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival:
Champion Natural Colored Fine Wool Ram
Best Fleece, Natural Colored Fine Wool Show
1st Place Natural Colored Fine Wool Senior Ram Lamb
1st Place Natural Colored Fine Wool Pair of Ram Lambs
1st Place Natural Colored Fine Wool Pair of Ewe Lambs
2015 Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival:
Natural Colored Champion Fleece
Jane Hyland Award (Natural Colored) Best natural colored fleece from two divisions
3rd place White Fine Fleece
2nd Place Fall Ram Lamb White Fine
2014 Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival:
2nd place White Fine Fleece
2nd and 3rd place Natural Colored Fine Fleece
2nd place Pair of Ram Lambs White Fine
Reserve Champion Ram, Natural Colored Fine
2nd place, Pair of Ram Lambs Natural Colored Fine
2013 Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival:
2nd place White Fine Fleece
3rd place Natural Colored Fine Fleece
2nd place Yearling Ram, White Fine Wool
3rd place Senior Ram Lamb, White Fine Wool
2nd place Senior Ram Lamb, Natural Colored
2nd place Pair of Ram Lambs, Natural Colored
2nd place Ewe Lamb, Natural Colored
1st place Pair of Ewe Lambs, Natural Colored
2012 Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival:
1st place Natural Colored Fine Fleece (Celia, ewe born and bred at Black Sheep Farm, on farm for 12 months of fleece growth, owned by Celia Kope–but she’s back here as one of our breeding ewes). This fleece also was awarded the Jane Hyland Award for best hand spinning fleece.
1st place Senior Ram Lamb, fine white wool
2nd place Pair of Ram Lambs, fine white wool
3rd place Pair of Ewe Lambs, fine white wool
3rd place Pair of Ewe Lambs, natural colored fine wool