First Place:  1

Entry number:  190

Exhibitor:  Sam1

State:  KS

Sheep name/number:  All-American 1002

Breed:  Crossbred

Website:  www.greatlambs.com

In an extremely close pair of white pelted ewes, I opt for the added length and extension that 1 possesses.  Ideally, I would like to see her neck set a little higher on her shoulder and tuck her a little neater in her breast plate.  Still 1 is a longer spined ewe, that is level, full and square down her topline and extremely correct in her rib design.  As a bonus she appears to be the largest outlined,  pounds heavy ewe in the class that I predict to have the heaviest mature weight and be able to inject that added growth into any potential offspring.

Second Place:  3

Entry number:  289

Exhibitor:  Chadam

State:  WA

Sheep name/number:  BCCL 8058

Breed:  Hampshire X

3 very closely follows the pattern and productive look of the class winner, unfortunately she appears to be shorter in all aspects of her outline.   Still it is her structural correctness and balance that allows her to place over the long wooled ewe.  She is more correct through her neck, shoulder, and entire front end, stands with more elevation to her pasterns, and her front two point more nearly forward.  In addition she appears to be the higher quality of the two, and even though she is easier to read in terms of flesh due to being shorn, she appears to have more shape and dimension down her top and fullness to her loin.

Third Place:  2

Entry number:  282

2 is at somewhat of a disadvantage not being shorn, however she appears to be the higher quality, more structurally correct of the concluding pair.  She is an extremely big hipped ewe that is more ideal in her composition.  Once shorn, she would prove to be cleaner fronted, more uniform down her topline and better balanced than 4.

Fourth Place:  4

Entry number:  307

The dark fibered ewe is without a doubt the most expressively muscled ewe in class, appears to be really elevated and full over her loin edges, and overwhelmingly wide through her chest floor, however that is where her advantages end as she is the roughest patterned ewe in class.  She is the boldest at the top of her shoulder and the most blown out at her points.  She pinches right behind her shoulder and is extremely rough at her hip-loin juncture.

Therefore we end up with a placing of 1, 3, 2, 4 and cut it 2, 4, 2.  Good Luck, hopefully we'll have more happy judgers this week!