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WOW, WOW, WOW!

Posted by kenleighacres on June 25, 2012
Posted in: family, Farm Life, Jacob Sheep, sheep. Tagged: , , . 11 Comments

I find myself repeating those words over and over again in regards to the weekend we just had at Black Sheep Gathering.

Here is a sneak peek at what came home with us…

Blue ribbons for all of our Fiber Arts entries and the shocker of all was that my jacket won the Black Sheep Cup…the Best in Show of the Fiber Arts show!  I still can’t believe it!  More about that later…this post is all about the sheep show.

Thanks to Coleen and Toni for taking photos while we were in the ring!  Coleen did double duty and helped us show as well.

  

I love showing sheep as a family!

First in the ring were the rams.  This picture is of the Champion class and includes the 1st and 2nd place Yearling rams and Ram lambs.  The Yearling ram results were…1st place – Kenleigh Acres with Byeburn Hector and 2nd place – bide a wee farm with bide a wee Dalton.

The Ram lamb class results were…1st place – Kenleigh Acres with Kenleigh’s Gusto, 2nd place – Windy Acres, 3rd place – Hunter’s Glen with Hunter’s Glen Rudolph, 4th place – Hunter’s Glen with Hunter’s Glen Roy Rogers, 5th place – Windy Acres, and 6th place – bide a wee farm.

Champion Ram was Byeburn Hector and

Reserve Champion Ram was Kenleigh’s Gusto.

Here we are showing our Yearling ewe entries.

Yearling ewe entries from left to right – Windy Acres, 2 ewes from Drumcliffe Farm, and 2 ewes from bide a wee farm.

The Yearling ewe results were…1st place – Kenleigh Acres with bide a wee Shana, 2nd place – Kenleigh Acres with Kenleigh’s Emeline, 3rd place – Drumcliffe Farm, 4th place – bide a wee farm, 5th place – Windy Acres, and 6th place – bide a wee farm.

The large ewe lamb class.

Another view of the ewe lamb class.  The Ewe lamb class results were…1st place – Kenleigh Acres with Kenleigh’s Elan, 2nd place – Hunter’s Glen with Hunter’s Glen Prancer, 3rd place – Windy Acres, 4th place – Kenleigh Acres with Kenleigh’s Folly, 5th place – Hunter’s Glen with Hunter’s Glen Cupid, 6th place – Mud Ranch with Mud Ranch’s Pansy.

Here is our son showing his ewe lamb, Cupid, with some help from our friend, Tammy.  I wish I knew what he was saying 🙂

  

Here is the Champion ewe class.  Champion ewe was bide a wee Shana and Reserve ewe was Kenleigh’s Emeline.

Next up were the Young Flocks from each farm.

1st place – Kenleigh Acres

 

2nd place – Hunter’s Glen

3rd place – Windy Acres

4th place – Mud Ranch

5th place – bide a wee farm

6th place – Drumcliffe Farm

 

Showing Jacobs is always exciting…thanks sis for helping 🙂

Black Sheep Gathering – All about the Jacobs

Posted by kenleighacres on June 28, 2010
Posted in: Jacob Sheep, Uncategorized. Tagged: , . 7 Comments

Thank you to my friend, Lora, for the following photos.  Warning…there are a LOT of photos 🙂

The Jacobs show on Friday of BSG, it is nice to get it out of the way early.  I enjoy showing, but my back doesn’t!  The sheep were easy to handle, which made the job a little easier.  I love having halter broke sheep!!! 

 

It is so nice walking 3-4 sheep at a time, instead of dragging them one at a time like we used to.

The classes started with the yearling rams…

 Left to right, 1st to 5th place – bideawee Glyn, Kenleigh’s Imagine (owned by bide a wee), Patchwork Abraham (owned by us), a Drumcliffe ram, and not pictured – a Swallow Lane ram.   All were beautiful representatives of the breed!

Next class was the ram lambs…

It was a big class with 14 being shown.  Left to right – bideawee, Kenleigh’s Silverton, Kenleigh’s Buchanan, and Meridian.

Left to right – Meridian, Black Oak Ranch, Black Oak Ranch, Mud Ranch, and Swallow Lane.

Left to right – Swallow Lane, Mud Ranch, Drumcliffe, Drumcliffe, and bide a wee.

The placements were:  1st – Meridian, 2nd – Kenleigh’s Buchanan, 3rd – bide a wee, 4th – Swallow Lane, 5th – Kenleigh’s Silverton, and 6th – bide a wee.

Pair of ram lamb placements – 1st – Kenleigh, 2nd – Meridian, 3rd – bide a wee, 4th – Swallow Lane, 5th – Mud Ranch, and 6th – Black Oak Ranch.

Champion ram was bideawee Glyn – front left and Reserve Champion was the Meridian ram lamb behind him. 

 Next it was time for the girls.  I really liked all of the sheep that we took to Black Sheep this year, but I especially liked Flirt, one of our yearling girls, and both of the ewe lambs, Sublimity and Mollala.  The ewe lambs are quite special because they are out of older girls that have thrown really nice ram lambs, but haven’t had very many/nice ewe lambs.  I was so excited when Sublimity and Mollala were born!  They are both pretty girls with gorgeous fleeces.  I am happy to say that the judge liked them as well 🙂 

Yearling ewes, left to right – Kenleigh’s Flirt, Windy Acres Delight (owned by us), Black Oak Ranch, Swallow Lane, Swallow Lane, Drumcliffe, Mud Ranch, Mud Ranch, and Drumcliffe.  There were two bideawee yearling ewes as well, but they aren’t pictured.

Placements:  1st – Kenleigh’s Flirt, 2nd – Drumcliffe, 3rd – bide a wee, 4th – Windy Acres Delight, 5th – Drumcliffe, and 6th – bide a wee.

The ewe lamb class had 16 sheep in it, including my son’s first lambs.  He showed Precious with help from a friend.

Here is a picture of our 4 ewe lambs in the top four spots!  Kenleigh’s Mollala, Kenleigh’s Sublimity, Hunter’s Glen Echo, and Hunter’s Glen Florence (Precious). 

Here is a picture of the Pair of Ewe lambs class.  Placements:  1st – Kenleigh, 2nd – Hunter’s Glen, 3rd – Meridian, 4th – Mud Ranch, 5th – Swallow Lane, and 6th – bide a wee.

My sister is showing Mollala and I am showing Flirt – they were awarded Champion and Reserve Champion ewe.  I love having my sister’s help!

I also love having my husband’s help!  I don’t know what he is laughing about here, but these are the moments I really enjoy about showing.

These moments are pretty fun too!

Mollala is the result of a love affair that I couldn’t say ‘no’ to.  Her mom, Holly, wasn’t going to be bred – but her and Julian had different ideas 🙂  I finally gave into their longing glances through the fence and am so happy that I opened the gate.  She is a very pretty girl. 

Flirt had a lot to say 🙂  Every picture of her had her mouth wide open.

Young flock placements were:  1st – Kenleigh, 2nd – Meridian, 3rd – Mud Ranch, 4th – Swallow Lane, 5th – bide a wee, and 6th – Black Oak Ranch.

His expression says it all – we had a great time 🙂