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One Fine Acre - 2023 4H Steer Project Update
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Take a showerI hear Champagne glasses toasting! (welllllll maybe sparkling grape juice)
So what are you going to do to celebrate?
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I hear Champagne glasses toasting! (welllllll maybe sparkling grape juice
So what are you going to do to celebrate?
Oh and take Zamia to Shelby to have another shot at that doe that beat her today
Southern by choice
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Getting old OFA, gettin' old! 
Hens and Roos
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Congrats! That's great 
animalmom
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Well done one and all!
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We did really well this weekend and I wanted to post some pics of our winners.
In Ring 1 and 2 the Grand Champion was a beautiful 3-4 year old doe J-Nels SM Dimplin owned by Gypsy Moon Farm. We entered Zamia in the Champion Challenge and she was picked Best of Breed over the champion.
In Ring 3 the Grand Champion was an aged doe Double Durango Hot Tamale owned by Cool Springs Farm. We challenged with Zamia but that judge stuck with her champion for Best of Breed.
Dimplin and Hot Tamale were both very, very nice does.
But here's my pretty girl Zamia
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Cookie took Reserve Grand Champion in Ring 1. She came in 2nd place to the Grand Champion J-Nels Dimplin in the 3-4 year old age group, and the judge went with the 2nd place of that age with Reserve.
My 2-3 year old buck Big Brown took Grand Champion and Best of Breed in Ring 3. This was also a Nigerian Specialty so he got a medal from the ANDDA
And here was the big one. In Ring 3 our Sr. Dry Yearling Shea took Grand Champion Jr. Doe and Best in Show. We were shocked that she was picked best in show, she is our first ever. She actually beat a Spinning Spider Saanen and a K-Bar C Ranch Toggenburg and Recorded Grade.
Shea's sire is Big Brown and her Dam is Cocoa.
All in all a great weekend.
Edited: Oops, uploaded the wrong pic before for Big Brown. It was actually Fortunato instead.
Here is Fortunato.
He is a yearling, I think he will do well someday.
In Ring 1 and 2 the Grand Champion was a beautiful 3-4 year old doe J-Nels SM Dimplin owned by Gypsy Moon Farm. We entered Zamia in the Champion Challenge and she was picked Best of Breed over the champion.
In Ring 3 the Grand Champion was an aged doe Double Durango Hot Tamale owned by Cool Springs Farm. We challenged with Zamia but that judge stuck with her champion for Best of Breed.
Dimplin and Hot Tamale were both very, very nice does.
But here's my pretty girl Zamia
\
Cookie took Reserve Grand Champion in Ring 1. She came in 2nd place to the Grand Champion J-Nels Dimplin in the 3-4 year old age group, and the judge went with the 2nd place of that age with Reserve.
My 2-3 year old buck Big Brown took Grand Champion and Best of Breed in Ring 3. This was also a Nigerian Specialty so he got a medal from the ANDDA
And here was the big one. In Ring 3 our Sr. Dry Yearling Shea took Grand Champion Jr. Doe and Best in Show. We were shocked that she was picked best in show, she is our first ever. She actually beat a Spinning Spider Saanen and a K-Bar C Ranch Toggenburg and Recorded Grade.
Shea's sire is Big Brown and her Dam is Cocoa.
All in all a great weekend.
Edited: Oops, uploaded the wrong pic before for Big Brown. It was actually Fortunato instead.
Here is Fortunato.
He is a yearling, I think he will do well someday.
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Awesome! Congrats on such a great outing. Having great goats is one thing, but it takes tons of work and prep to do well also! You have every right to be proud!
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Good job, I knew your girls and boys would do well and they didn't disappoint me. Congrats and now go and beat that other doe
Did the judges do a good job with their oral reasonings for placement? I went to a judges training one weekend and supplied some goats for them to practice on and it was very interesting hearing these young judges voice their opinions and have the seasoned judges question their reasoning. For someone that doesn't show it was quite the education in goat anatomy.
The one thing that I do like about goat shows is that there is often more than one ring so therefore really more than one show. Makes a lot of sense for all the time and effort that goes into getting them show ready. Our club does 4 rings and sometimes the same goat wins them all, but most of the time they don't.
Did the judges do a good job with their oral reasonings for placement? I went to a judges training one weekend and supplied some goats for them to practice on and it was very interesting hearing these young judges voice their opinions and have the seasoned judges question their reasoning. For someone that doesn't show it was quite the education in goat anatomy.
The one thing that I do like about goat shows is that there is often more than one ring so therefore really more than one show. Makes a lot of sense for all the time and effort that goes into getting them show ready. Our club does 4 rings and sometimes the same goat wins them all, but most of the time they don't.
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Good job, I knew your girls and boys would do well and they didn't disappoint me. Congrats and now go and beat that other doe
Did the judges do a good job with their oral reasonings for placement? I went to a judges training one weekend and supplied some goats for them to practice on and it was very interesting hearing these young judges voice their opinions and have the seasoned judges question their reasoning. For someone that doesn't show it was quite the education in goat anatomy.
The one thing that I do like about goat shows is that there is often more than one ring so therefore really more than one show. Makes a lot of sense for all the time and effort that goes into getting them show ready. Our club does 4 rings and sometimes the same goat wins them all, but most of the time they don't.
I thought the judges did a great job. I was probably most impressed when one of the judges was commenting on Clara Belle, our 2-3 year old who he placed 4th. He said he would love to place her higher, but she just wasn't showing enough capacity. Makes sense, she is 2 and has freshened once, and some of the does were 3 and had freshened 3 times. It was a large class, I was happy she was 4th.
When he picked Zamia as Best of Breed I told him that that 4th place doe was Zamia's daughter, and he said "that makes a lot of sense, if she turns out as good as this one you got yourself a keeper"
Having multiple opportunities to show under multiple judges is great. You are investing the time and money to go to a show, so it's good to get multiple opportunities.
I like to see all of my fellow breeders do well.
Now, going to the show in Shelby for another shot, I don't know. Maurine and Rachel can't go, so it would be just me. Not sure I love it that much.
Maurine wants me to take Zamia, Taffy, two of our yearlings Opal and Molly (Molly finished 2nd to Shea in that class of 26) and Big Brown and Fortunato.
I have not decided yet.
