Its amazing to me to see the different placings to judges can produce in a show. At the Dixie National this weekend the two judges (Open & Youth) placed pretty much the same animals pretty close to exactly opposite. At the youth show we had 8 animals, none placed above 3rd (and we only had 1 3rd place animal) and in the Open show none placed below 3rd (again with only 1 third place animal). Both the grand champion and reserve grand champion open females got last in there respective classes in the youth show, and the grand champion female in the youth show got 2nd out of 2 in the open show. The reserve grand champion bull in the open show got 2nd to last out of 6 or 7 in the youth show, and the grand champion youth bull got last out of 5 in the open show (both mentioned bulls were in the same class).
I am not saying who is right or who is wrong (although I do have my opinion). Both judges did their job, gave their opinions and we move on. I understand there are differences between judges, but this was pretty extreme. The youth show judge was a Longhorn breeder from Indiana who, from my understanding, had only judged once before. The open show judge had an agriculture/beef cattle related degree from OK State and now worked at Michigan State Univ.
Just a lil rambling... thanks for listening.
I am not saying who is right or who is wrong (although I do have my opinion). Both judges did their job, gave their opinions and we move on. I understand there are differences between judges, but this was pretty extreme. The youth show judge was a Longhorn breeder from Indiana who, from my understanding, had only judged once before. The open show judge had an agriculture/beef cattle related degree from OK State and now worked at Michigan State Univ.
Just a lil rambling... thanks for listening.