—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, Nov. 6, 1976
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Champions are a natural for Sarah Brubaker
By DIETER KRIEG
TIMONIUM, Md. - Sarah
Brubaker, 14-year old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Clyde Brubaker, Lancaster,
showed the grand champion
market lamb here at the
Eastern National Livestock
Show a week ago. Af
terwards she sold the 115
pound Hampshire for $4 per
pound.
The ENLS draws
exhibitors from all over the
eastern part of the United
States and a few from west of
the Mississippi River.
Miss Brubaker has had
considerable success with
her sheep, winning top prizes
at such prestigious shows as
the Pennsylvania Farm
Show, the Keystone Ex
position, the Eastern States
Exposition, and the ENLS.
Included among her trophies
are a number of awards for
first-place entries. Working
with sheep and having a high
degree of success with them
almost appears to be a
natural for the young Lan
caster Countian.
But nothing comes from
nothing.
Miss Brubaker has worked
diligently for the honors
she’s received.
She rates exercise, fitting,
and showmanship as the
three most important
criteria to preparing an
animal for a show. She
shares her program and
thoughts on each topic:
“I exercise my sheep six
or seven days per week for
as long as three or four
months before the date of the
show,” Miss Brubaker ex
plained. “I run’em over two
foot high hurdles and an oil
drum for an average of 15 to
20 minutes per day. After a
while they know what to do
and they go pretty much by
themselves.”
The object is to develop an
animal which shows
thickness down its back,
muscling, length of rump,
length of loin, good muscling
through the legs, and the
proper amount of finish or
fat.
Fitting a sheep properly is
also important. Miss
Brubaker makes it a point to
work with her sheep for a
few minutes every evening.
That includes holding them,
teaching them how to stand
properly and training them.
About a week or two before
the show they’re washed and
trimmed all over. An im
maculate coat of wool is the
result. Brushing aside any
idea that this may entail a
good bit of work and patience
just to prepare for a show
which is months away, Miss
Brubaker compliments her
sheep by saying “They leam
pretty fast, actually two or
three nights of training
would be enough.”
Finally, there’s the
question of showmanship.
With five years of experience
as a member of the Lan
caster County 4-H Beef and
Sheep Club, Miss Brubaker #
knows how to set her sheep
up properly. Her per
formances in the show ring
prove it.
A freshman at Hempfield
High School, the pretty
young lady has been to the
Eastern National a couple of
tunes. She’s had the grand
champion market lamb at
the Farm Show for three
consecutive years. “I like
' the sheep and I enjoy doing
it,” she exclaimed with a
pleasant smile.
The Brubakers live on a 60-
acre farm on the Harrisburg
Pike, just two miles from the
Park City shopping mall.
Sheep have been a part of the
farm for as long as Miss
Brubaker can remember,
and for that reason she finds
it easy to work with them.
According to her parents,
Sarah has a way with
animals.
Mrs. Brubaker, the former
Dorothy Stehman of Lan
caster, was an accomplished
4-H’er herself, showing
several champion pens of
lambs when she was in the
program. Her father shows
annually at the Farm Show
and other major exhibitions.
Having a champion animal
is not always pleasant.
“When I had my first pen of
champion lambs 1 didn’t
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want to see them go,” Miss
Brubaker remembered.
“But they have to be sold,”
she explained. “So there's no
use crying, because they’re
going to go anyway.”
As would be expected, the
success in the show ring has
created a demand for sheep
from the Brubaker farm.
Some are sold to 4-H’ers in
the area. While at the farm,
the Brubakers’ sheep are fed'
hay, (mostly alfalfa) some
grain, and minerals. In
addition, they have access to
an exercise lot and grass.
“I like working with
animals,” Miss Brubaker
replied to a question
regarding her future plans.
“I was brought up on a farm
and I enjoy my 4-H Club
work. I’d like a career which
is related to animals - it
wouldn’t have to be sheep,
but I’d try to make it be,”
she concluded with a broad
grin and sparkling eyes.
Sarah Brubaker has been showing champion sheep for five years.
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