The Fair in an Overview - Part Three

On Friday there were a couple shows. First was essentially a show where you showed what kind of breeding stock/offspring you had at home. You showed your rams, your ewes, essentially your "flock," in competition against other rams and ewes of the same breed (however, most of the showmen who entered this show had all the animals in a specific breed category). After each of the separate breeds were judged, the champion ram, ewe, etc., of each breed contested with their counterpart of the other breeds. Some of us were able to help friends show their sheep, but none of our livestock competed in this show.
However, one show that we did compete in was one that, actually, everyone who wanted to sell a lamb had to compete in, so it wasn't necessarily voluntary...

Zachary cleaning his lambs hoofs - part of showmanship

Bo-Peep and Coco awaiting the judge's decision

Line up

This show was a "how-well-do-you-keep-your-lamb-groomed" as well as "how-well-do-you-show-your-lamb" idea, rightly called Showmanship (or Fitting and Showing). Somehow, pictures of Rachel and James were overlooked...except, you can see James in the last picture, between showmen 3 and 4 from the left. All-in-all, we did well.

The last two days were quite a bit more relaxed (except about twenty minutes of day - 17.5 minutes before entering the auction ring, and the 2.5 minutes in the auction ring on Saturday). But we'll still save those facts for another day...

Red: editor of The Coderlambian