Ram Lambs 5-11 months
Judge: Vance Christie
Judging Contest Winners:
Under 15: peanutramirez
15-18: TXsheepraiser
Over 18: bradycl, classic1112, dc05, megan9, ptr, sheepnpygs, TheDad1
Judgers, pick your poison with the top 3 rams in this class. Depending on your ewe base any one of the 3 deserve to win. I am thankful that Crystal gave us a bottom in this one.
With that said, my preferred alignment of the ram lambs is 3, 4, 2, 1. And with you knowing that I do not give one point cuts, I am going to cut it 2, 2, 9.
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First Place: 3
Entry number: 719 Exhibitor: EmsoffLambs State: CA Sheep name/number: Comstock (Moser X222) Breed: Hampshire Website: www.emsofflivestockcompany.com |
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3 is the power ram of the class. No he is not as long and extended through his front end nor side as our middle pair, but he is the widest, stoutest-made ram that could make the biggest change in an average set of club lamb ewes. The unshorn ram is the biggest boned, widest based lamb that better carries this mass advantage to the top of his skeleton. In comparison to 4, his is bigger and bolder behind his blades, wider and flatter over his loin and wider set in his pins. Consequently, he is bigger in his upper hip and better maintains his thickness to the lower portion of his leg. I predict him to inject more thickness and power into his offspring if comparably mated.
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Second Place: 4
Entry number: 729 Exhibitor: Shootingstar State: TX Sheep name/number: Bad to the Bone Breed: Hampshire Website: www.starshowlambs.com |
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If you need to add length and extension to a set of lambs one of the two in the middle pair would be more desirable. Along those lines, contrasting the class winner, 4 is longer necked, taller fronted, longer loined and appears to be a longer hind-saddled lamb. Unfortunately, the smaller testicled ram is narrower down his top, does not transition from his loin to hip as smooth as 3 and plays out ever so slightly in his lower leg. Still in the middle pair of later maturing rams, he is the more expressive of the two. 4 reads to have both more width and shape to his rack and loin, and is much more explosive through his center leg. As a bonus, he is more rugged and appears to have more true bone circumference. Indeed, his offspring should be more shapely and muscular than his middle pair contemporary.
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Third Place: 2
Entry number: 719 |
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2 is truly dynamic from the side, having the coolest, trendiest neck, shoulder and rib shape of the four, yet in reality he is the lightest muscled of the initial trio, so I leave him third. However his pattern, design and muscle integrity allow him to dominate 1 in the concluding pair. He simply is the overwhelmingly skeletally superior ram of the two that is neater about the floor of his chest, smoother at the point of his shoulder and much more desirable in his levelness of top and hip. In addition he is truer out of his hock and more upright in his pasterns. All this with the added wool about his cap and legs will most definitely pass more show ring look to his progeny.
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Fourth Place: 1
Entry number: 508 |
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I will venture that 1 may be the fastest growing, highest performing ram in the class that on a commercial level could produce a great deal of pounds of lamb in the proper mating system, and he is wider through the plain of his stifle than 2. Yet in regards to the production of show lambs, he is extremely coarse made, ill balanced and to malformed structurally. In addition, he is the lightest conditioned, least muscular down his top and extremely off in his dock, therefore he is last.
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