4-Hgirl --- Me and my animals

[4-Hgirl]

You can buy a champion but you can't buy showmanship. That is what I think of when I hear that someone payed $4,000 for a gilt now that is paying for a champion. Some people have their kids show their pigs for 4-H I bet that the kid has only seen the pig maybe a week before the show the parent probably trained the pig. once when I was showing my goat there was this boy with a fancy show goat and he looked like he was doing fine (he probably hadn't even seen the goat before) and his dad was yelling at him. like really people the kid is showing not you.

even if I lose showmanship at least I trained my own animal. Probably 90% of all the kids in the barn had their parents train their animals and those are the kids who win showmanship which to me is not fair that if you don't train your animals maybe you shouldn't do showmanship because otherwise people that trained their own pig and didn't have there parent do it or hire someone to train their pig have to compete against pigs that are obviously not trained by the kid.

 

[Baymule]

Most people don't have the ethics that you do. Stay true to yourself and hold your head up high.

 

[4-Hgirl]

I am also on the national BB gun team and have shooting practice twice a week only about 4 more practices and then I am in Arkansas at Nationals

 

[Sheepfarmer22]

even if I lose showmanship at least I trained my own animal. Probably 90% of all the kids in the barn had their parents train their animals and those are the kids who win showmanship which to me is not fair that if you don't train your animals maybe you shouldn't do showmanship because otherwise people that trained their own pig and didn't have there parent do it or hire someone to train their pig have to compete against pigs that are obviously not trained by the kid.

I KNOW RIGHT?! I'm planning to show my lamb that was born from my ewe in March this fair season. Same thing with sheep showmanship. Broilers, as I mentioned in a different forum, are just birds that walk around plump and to "show" them you hold them up-side-down for judge to observe. That's why I like broilers, you can't train them much!