OneFineAcre
Herd Master
We went to the NC Mountain State Fair this weekend. I'm glad I decided to take today off in that we didn't get home until 11:30 last night. I tell you pulling a livestock trailer for 5 hours is a lot like work.
So, we had a really good show. Our daughter Rachel had the Reserve Grand Champion Jr. Doe (Moonpie Dry Yearling) and the Grand Champion Sr. Doe and Overall Grand Champion (Zamia 4-5 year old) in the youth show.
In the open show, our Jr's didn't do really well, I don't think we had anyone higher than 5th place, but our Sr's did really well considering the level of competition in the show. There is a farm in western NC called J-Nels that has ADGA national caliber animals. They had Grand Champion, Best of Breed and their dairy herd was picked Best in Show. All of us Nigerian breeders get excited when Nigerians are picked Best in Show.
Daisy came in 2nd in 1-2 year old milkers, Taffy came in 3rd in 2-3 year old milkers (Grand Champion and Best of Breed was in this group) Cocoa came in 1st place in 3-4 year old milkers, and Rosmary came in 2nd in 4-5 year old milkers. All of the classes had were pretty large, I think the least in any class was 12 animals. Zamia finished 3rd in the Champion Challenge behind 3 J-Nels animals. Our dairy herd of Zamia, Taffy, and Cocoa came in 4th out of 10 Nigerian Herds.
This picture of Zamia is awful.
Nobody was cooperating especially Rachel who was hot, hungry and tired. I didn't realize until I loaded on the computer how bad it looked.
For some reason standing in that mulch makes her back looked swayed.
So, we had a really good show. Our daughter Rachel had the Reserve Grand Champion Jr. Doe (Moonpie Dry Yearling) and the Grand Champion Sr. Doe and Overall Grand Champion (Zamia 4-5 year old) in the youth show.
In the open show, our Jr's didn't do really well, I don't think we had anyone higher than 5th place, but our Sr's did really well considering the level of competition in the show. There is a farm in western NC called J-Nels that has ADGA national caliber animals. They had Grand Champion, Best of Breed and their dairy herd was picked Best in Show. All of us Nigerian breeders get excited when Nigerians are picked Best in Show.
Daisy came in 2nd in 1-2 year old milkers, Taffy came in 3rd in 2-3 year old milkers (Grand Champion and Best of Breed was in this group) Cocoa came in 1st place in 3-4 year old milkers, and Rosmary came in 2nd in 4-5 year old milkers. All of the classes had were pretty large, I think the least in any class was 12 animals. Zamia finished 3rd in the Champion Challenge behind 3 J-Nels animals. Our dairy herd of Zamia, Taffy, and Cocoa came in 4th out of 10 Nigerian Herds.
This picture of Zamia is awful.
Nobody was cooperating especially Rachel who was hot, hungry and tired. I didn't realize until I loaded on the computer how bad it looked.For some reason standing in that mulch makes her back looked swayed.
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