Market Lambs 141-150 lbs.
Judge: Vance Christie
Judging Contest Winners:
Under 15: MS
15-18: SheepNerd
Over 18: nslough, Lucy, luvnlamb2, esheepfarms, massie
Official Placing: 1, 4, 3, 2
Cuts: 2, 3, 2
Again, a good class that all exhibitors are to be commended on the quality of lambs they submitted. I prefer them 1, 4, 3, 2 with cuts of 2, 3, 2.
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First Place: 1
Entry number: 913 Exhibitor: ewemama1 State: CA Sheep name/number: Breed: Hampshire Website: www.springcreekranchclublambs.com |
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1 is the best combination of balance, muscle and structural correctness. I would question if he is not a tick on the heavy conditioned side, nevertheless in comparison to 4, he is wider topped, smoother patterened and neater fronted. More specifically, he blends from his rack smoother into his loin and over his hip, is flatter and smoother at the point of his shoulder, and as he transitions from his neck to shoulder to rib-cage is more correct in his design. As a bonus, he should go to the rail with the most total pounds of product in the class.
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Second Place: 4
Entry number: 948 Exhibitor: animalluv34 State: TX Sheep name/number: Peanut Breed: Hampshire Website: www.esmondclublambs.web.offiicelive.com |
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Sure 4 is harder handling and more expressive in his muscle shape, unfortunately he is deeper and coarser through his front third of his skeleton and is much rawer down his top. Still, in the middle pair he is heavier muscled and much bigger hipped than 3. The higher-cutability 4 is squarer and more elevated over his rack, wider and flatter loined and measures much longer and wider out of his upper dock. His additional trimness should allow him to harvest a higher percentage of bonless closely trimmed retail cuts.
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Third Place: 3
Entry number: 934 |
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The wether with the birthmark on his hip appears to be more extended in his skeleton and perhaps pounds heavier. Unfortunately he is flatter and deeper in his ribcage and narrower made, so he is third. Yet in the final pair, 3 is longer loined, smoother hided and wider through the center and lower portion of his leg, and should hang a higher percentage hindsaddled carcass with a larger total leg score.
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Fourth Place: 2
Entry number: 919 Exhibitor: Arlambs State: AR Sheep name/number: 1127 Breed: Hampshire Website: www.cgfarms.homestead.com |
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2 is certainly an upfronted, big racked and loined wether, however he is shorter sided, smaller framed rougher hided and appears to be giving up some overall size and scale to the top 3, so he is last. Just a side-note, a couple of the photos made it tougher to sort these lambs. 4 looks a lot further along in his feeding process in the profile photo than he does the rear. It would be interesting to see if his top still looked so rough at the same time as the profile photo was taken. Also the 2 lamb looks much smoother hided in the rear photo than the profile, almost like he was fresh shorn in the first photo and maybe a couple of days or so later in the profile. Just a note to help you as you make photo selections.
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