First Place:  2

Entry number: 1349

Exhibitor: Syoung5

State: OH

Sheep name/number: Mullikin

Breed: Cross

In a top pair of powerful and stout constructed wethers, I am hanging my hat on the blue wether because he simply reads to be the most complete in his combination of muscularity, skeletal design, and eye appeal. He is long and extended through his front third, his shoulder lays in at a more appropriate angle than does the one behind him. Moreover, he is a longer sided, heavier constructed wether who is rounder ribbed and comes squarer and more massive out his dock, where he also studies to be pried apart wider through his pins and upper hip. When you study the picture down his top, he sports a wider, squarer, and more terminal shape to his rack and loin edge.

Second Place:  1

Entry number: 1300

Exhibitor: heresheep

State: CA

Sheep name/number: 778

Website: www.threesisterssheep.com

The one wether that follows my class winner does come more level through his hip and dock, and may be the most impressive from behind. Unfortunately, when compared back to our class winner, he reads plainer in his shape up high, shorter from flank to flank, and wants to hock in from behind. I would also like to see this wether's shoulder laid back at a more desirable angle. But you certainly have to appreciate the shape through his center leg and stifle, as well as elevation through the base of his chest. He stays second today because he offers a more dynamic look from the profile, and reads with more shape and dimension from his last rib back when compared to the wether standing behind him.

Third Place:  3

Entry number: 1375

The wether we keep in third shows to feed some shape directly behind his shoulder. However, I read this sheep as being plainer in his look from the side, he is shorter sided, and deeper through his heart and chest. He wants to get coarse through his shoulder, and rougher in the way his loin edge connects to his hip. As I study this wether from behind, he gets narrow through his pins, and gives up a considerable amount of volume and mass to the two ahead of him. I keep him in the third hole today because when compared to the wether in fourth, 3 exhibits a higher quality skeletal design from the side, and views with more power and mass over his topside and from behind.

Fourth Place:  4

Entry number: 1376

The wether that rounds out our class today is certainly extended up through his front end and I believe he is only going to get better with time and days on feed, but today he reads the greenest compositionally. He shows to be the flattest in his center body, frailest in his skeleton, and wants to taper back into his dock. From behind, he is the narrowest out his upper hip, and flattens out into his lower leg and stifle.