Well this is my last blog before the fair, so I decided to just talk a bit about showing and what exactly the shows entail. There are two shows for the dairy program, the 4-H show and the Open Class show. Every year the shows are always Wednesday and Thursday during the week, and the first few days before that always seem super slow and boring, but then the show days come and all of a sudden the week is over. But anyway, both days the shows start at nine o’clock in the morning and most of the time go to about three o’clock ish in the afternoon.
The Open Class show goes by age class (I think but I might be mixing the shows up????). This means that the calves, heifers and cows that are in the same age group get shown around the same time. It still goes by breeds, starting with Holstein, then Jerseys, and goes on after that, but once it gets to the end of the age group it goes on to the next age.
Now the 4-H show starts with showmanship. Showmanship is when a kid picks one of their best cows that are around a good size for them and then they get judged on how well they show them. Then after that at about 11 it goes into the rest of the 4-H show, which this time goes by breeds, so it goes through all of the Holsteins and then all of the Jerseys, etc. etc.
It’s kind of hard to describe it in words, which you’d think after this long it would be for me but oh well. So like I said this is probably my last post before the fair and I’m not sure if I’ll be able to blog during it. It all depends on if I can make it work on my phone or not, and also the amount of time I have. But if I don’t have time, I’ll make sure I write down posts in a notebook or something and the week after it’ll be posts about the fair the whole time.
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