Market Lambs 131-140 lbs.
Judge: Vance Christie
Judging Contest Winners:
Under 15: chickenandsheepgirl
15-18: shae15
Over 18: lm1668, sheepsim, trueblue
Official Placing: 4, 2, 1, 3
Cuts: 2, 2, 2
My apologies for the delay judgers, my paying job and duties at San Antonio and San Angelo have had me a little side-lined the past two weeks.
An interesting class to be my first to officiate of the new season, and there is no clear cut winner or loser in the bunch. Therefore, I am going to place the class 4, 2, 1, 3 with cuts of 2, 2, 2.
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First Place: 4
Entry number: 783 Exhibitor: animalluv34 State: TX Sheep name/number: Emmett Breed: Hampshire |
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4 is the nicest profiling, best balanced lamb in the class. Ideally he needs to be smoother down is top and fuller and fresher loined. However in comparison to 2 in the initial pair, he is trimmer middle, more elevated through the floor of his chest and smoother at the point of his shoulder. 4 is sounder designed being more elevated in his pasterns and comes straighter to the ground out of his hock. As a bonus, he reads to be trimmer and firmer finished and more shapely over his rack.
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Second Place: 2
Entry number: 779 Exhibitor: Lambboy State: UT Breed: Suffolk X |
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Some may prefer the added width and dimension of 2, however he appears to be the heaviest conditioned lamb in class that would handle soft over his rib, rack and leg. Still it is this added stoutness and power that allow him to edge out the blue fibered wether in the middle pair. The hamp wether is bigger footed and stouter boned, spreads more width and thickness down his top, and his rib design allows him to have a squarer more upstanding rack. In addition he is bigger out of his hip, squarer docked and longer and smoother in his muscle pattern.
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Third Place: 1
Entry number: 759 |
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I appreciate the added length and extension in the blue weather, and he is certainly trimmer than 2. Yet in reality, he is frailer made, tight in his ribcage, round muscled, pinches at his hip-loin junction and in at his hocks. With these faults aside, I like him over 3 in the concluding pair based on his added length, maturity and amount of finish. 1 is longer hindsaddled, leveler docked and simply appears to be further along in his feeding phase.
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Fourth Place: 3
Entry number: 782 |
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3 is a better designed wether, that could benefit from a tail job. However in this group he is too juvenile. He is the lightest muscled, and rawest in his condition and needs more days on feed to reach the carcass merit of his contemporaries.
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