I luv herfrds":ydgrplgb said:
NV the judge we had also judged dairy in the past. At the judges meeting my daughter asked him about the clothing and the walking backwards. He told her yes she had to wear white and walk backwards. The judge was impressed with her going to do all those little details.
Found a video on youtube that showed we should have clipped her at least 3 weeks before but since we did not know this until 2 days before the fair we just left her alone.
Now my daughter had signed up for a dairy project at the start of the 4-H year. Did your son do that too?
He signed up for Dairy at the very beginning of the 4-H year (October). He signed up last year, but our deal on the Dexter cow fell through.
I'm gonna clip Sunny up tonight, I knew to clip before the show from my years of horse shows. Gotta give that trimmed hair time to blend in and make sure it lays down nicely. She'll only need a little bit, like her tail, a few long hairs on her belly. She'll get her legs and hooves cleaned up again the day before the show, and hopefully spot cleaning will be a minimum the morning of.
Our show day (Friday the 31st) will start with the cow classes at 7:30. He's entered in 3.
We're mixed in with the Beef classes because they won't make a new class without a minimum of 3 participants. So either he'll be judged Dairy just mixed in with the Beef heifers/calves and ribbon accordingly or he'll take the bottom of the class due to being Dairy but he'll get the show experience. Doesn't really matter, Sunny is such a sweetheart that he'll get good experience and can show an onery Beef heifer next year (Black angus and Hereford rule the pen there, with the occasional Charolais). He won't be using a show stick.
I'm gonna braid her tail swatch tonight and bag it up to stay clean for show day. Then just a little spray and teasing and it'll be Beau-ti-ful!
Poultry and Rabbit classes start at 8 am the same day, so we'll jumping from ring to ring, class to class, species to species. No time to change, so he'll be in regular Official 4-H dress. New blue jeans, white shirt, 4-H tie. So be it.
I'll look for white jeans as a just in case, but thus far they were a suggestion ("If you go on to show in bigger venues he'll need the white pants. It would be neat to see here if you can find them") The walking backwards and getting her to walk slow (hesitate between steps) he's been practicing. We'll see how that goes on show day with lil April!
We finally put holstien embroys into jerseys and jersey embroys into holstiens and got similar results.
