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<blockquote data-quote="SPH" data-source="post: 1123450" data-attributes="member: 20580"><p>Our county fair and breed shows called it the herdsmanship award. Basically if this is a bunch of 4-H kids or a breed's youth association where the judging is going to be done as a group and not per ranch/family what you want to go for is keeping the stalls and surrounding areas neat and clean of manure and looking uniform. Stress to the kids the importance of keeping the calves clean and groomed. The main thing is keeping your area uniform looking, use the same stall cards and maybe a simple display curtain backdrop. Depending on how your stalls are setup put all the grooming chutes in 1 area, put all the show boxes in feed together instead of scattered around, and only use stall dividers on the very ends of where the cattle are stalled together. We never let families put stall dividers between them and other family's cattle as the goal should be to look unified.</p><p></p><p>It all just depends on the judging criteria. For our county fair it was mostly keeping your stall area looking well-kept. But when we went to our breed Junior National shows there usually was a theme so on top of all that I just mentioned we would plan ahead and only take what we needed so we figured out who had stall dividers, fans, grooming chutes, etc and only took the number of those that we'd need as a group because it made no sense for families with just 1 or 2 animals to bring all that when we had families with 2 or 3 kids that had at least 4 animals and was already bringing that stuff so we could evenly space out all the fans and chutes and place the stall dividers in logical places. Usually we'd have to come up with a small display to fit the theme and we'd make stall cards or a backdrop for the cards that would go along with the theme too. Our breed association also had purchased the same color halter and neckties in the past so everyone's calves would have matching halters while stalled. Some years we even stalled the cattle from largest to smallest in the line so we didn't have a big bull and another big animal sandwiching a younger heifer.</p><p></p><p>Best of luck! You don't have to go over the top but some of the simple things such as planning out how you are going to place all your tack and stall items goes a long way to making your stall area looking sharp.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SPH, post: 1123450, member: 20580"] Our county fair and breed shows called it the herdsmanship award. Basically if this is a bunch of 4-H kids or a breed's youth association where the judging is going to be done as a group and not per ranch/family what you want to go for is keeping the stalls and surrounding areas neat and clean of manure and looking uniform. Stress to the kids the importance of keeping the calves clean and groomed. The main thing is keeping your area uniform looking, use the same stall cards and maybe a simple display curtain backdrop. Depending on how your stalls are setup put all the grooming chutes in 1 area, put all the show boxes in feed together instead of scattered around, and only use stall dividers on the very ends of where the cattle are stalled together. We never let families put stall dividers between them and other family's cattle as the goal should be to look unified. It all just depends on the judging criteria. For our county fair it was mostly keeping your stall area looking well-kept. But when we went to our breed Junior National shows there usually was a theme so on top of all that I just mentioned we would plan ahead and only take what we needed so we figured out who had stall dividers, fans, grooming chutes, etc and only took the number of those that we'd need as a group because it made no sense for families with just 1 or 2 animals to bring all that when we had families with 2 or 3 kids that had at least 4 animals and was already bringing that stuff so we could evenly space out all the fans and chutes and place the stall dividers in logical places. Usually we'd have to come up with a small display to fit the theme and we'd make stall cards or a backdrop for the cards that would go along with the theme too. Our breed association also had purchased the same color halter and neckties in the past so everyone's calves would have matching halters while stalled. Some years we even stalled the cattle from largest to smallest in the line so we didn't have a big bull and another big animal sandwiching a younger heifer. Best of luck! You don't have to go over the top but some of the simple things such as planning out how you are going to place all your tack and stall items goes a long way to making your stall area looking sharp. [/QUOTE]
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