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[MN Farm Girl]

Well the fair is over. It started on Tuesday when mom and lil' bro took the crop samples in for 4-H. Wednesday we had to take the cattle in. Thursday we had to take our turn in the foodstand. Friday was the big day. SHOW DAY!!! I didn't do too bad. I got a blue in Natural- Junior Yearling Heifer. A blue with my cow calf pair. For FFA I got a 2nd and a 3rd with my Early Spring Yearling. (She is the same age as the 4-H heifer. It's just that 4-H and FFA separate the ages differently.) Saturday was nothing real special except that I had a livestock interview. What that is, is when we go and sit with a judge and he/she asks you question about the specie you wished to be questioned on. I chose Beef and got reserve in my age group. Being today was the last day we loaded cattle out between 4:30-5:00 p.m. It wasn't the most fun on Saturday and Sunday because it rained almost all day. Some people at the north end of our county got 5 inches in the morning. Around the fair grounds it was pretty slimy.

I will try to get pictures on as soon as I have enough time to download them. :roll:

MN Farm Girl

 

[Turkey Track Bar]

Congrats! It sounds like all your hard work paid off. You remembered to thank your folks for everything, didn't you? Even if you did, you might thank them again.

Glad to hear you got some rain, even if it was during the fair. I judged a very wet fair Friday. It was in western North Dakota, where they don't complain about rain, even if it comes at inopportune times! I was drenched when I got home, but had an enjoyable day evaluating our future and their projects. Plus I got to handle some very good market lambs and steers and evaluate some very nice ranch-kind heifers (I like those better than the cattle that are "Mained-up" one too many generations and can't walk and likely won't make a cow.)

Again, congrats! I look forward to your photos.

Cheers---

TTB :wink:

 

[PureCountry]

Sounds like an experience you won't soon forget. Events like this do so much for developing the character of kids in agriculture, it's a great thing to see. Some of my favorite memories are 4-H events with so many other kdis from the area, most of whom I still see all the time. Not sure how I missed out on having those things develop my character, but it was fun at the time! :lol: :lol:

 

[MN Farm Girl]

Plus I got to handle some very good market lambs and steers and evaluate some very nice ranch-kind heifers (I like those better than the cattle that are "Mained-up" one too many generations and can't walk and likely won't make a cow.)

There is a family in our county that always gets the so called "Breeding Heifers" so fat that they use them for the market class to. They got grand champion with her too. The one heifer they brought is so fat that she won't ever breed. It would have made a good heifer had they kept her in the condition. But they do anything to win most of there classes.

I wasn't complaining about the rain. It'll put test weight in the corn and fill the beans. If we would have had the rain 3 weeks earlier we would have been better off, but rain anytime if good.

MN Farm Girl