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FARM SHOW - Sunday’s
Dorset breeding sheep competition
found Lancaster County’s Hen
sisters, Barbara and Margaret,
capturing three of the four grand
championships, while Dauphin
County’s Kenneth Staver family
won reserve champion ram honors
at the 67th Pennsylvania Farm
Show.
Margaret Herr’s fall ram lamb,
an FFA project, placed at the top
of his class before being tagged by
Judge Leroy Boyd of Starkville,
Mississippi, as the most out
standing Dorset ram of the show.
Lehigh County's Mike Koehler, 18, of Allentown, receives
the Dorset Youth -of the Year Award from Ann Staver,
Eastern District director of the Continental Dorset Club. The
award is made each year to the outstanding young person
who works with Dorset sheep.
Herr sisters claim
After receiving her champion’s
plaque and posing for pictures,
Maragaret explained that this
particular ram had some previous
show ring experience, having
competed at last year’s Keystone
International Livestock Ex
position. Lambed in October 1981,
the Farm Show Dorset champ is
sired by a Myers ram (Ohio) and is
out of a homebred ewe which had
taken champion honors at Farm
Show about three years ago for the
Nix Besser flock.
Margaret explained that the
same breeding program also
n Farm Show Dorset competition
produced this year’s grand and
reserve champion ewe in the Farm
Show Dorset competition.
Margaret’s fall ewe lamb stood
second in class to Barbara’s junior
ewe lamb champion. Penn State
sophomore Barbara, 19, had shown
her Myers ewe lamb to champion
honors at last fall’s Keystone In
ternational Livestock Exposition
and to reserve champion honors in
the junior show at Louisville,
Kentucky.
Along with Margaret's sheep
taking individual championships,
the 15-year-old Garden Spot High
School sophomore also captured
three of the four group classes,
including Breeders Young Flock,
Pen of Lambs, and Get of Sire.
Back home at Narvon in nor
theastern Lancaster County,
Margaret owns a flock of ten
registered Dorsets which graze
side-by-side with the rest of the
Herr family’s renowned flock of
Nix Besser Dorset sheep.
It was the first time in the show
ring for the Kenneth Staver
family’s Dorset ram lamb. But it
was a most successful experience
for the fab lamb as he stood second
to the grand champion ram in class
and later for the reserve grand
honors.
Shown by daughter Julie Staver,
who holds the Farm Show record
for price received for a 4-H market
lamb and is now a practicing
veterinarian, the reserve cham
pion Dorset ram is just one of the
Staver family’s large flock of
registered sheep raised on the
rolling hills of Dauphin County
near Palmyra.
According to mother Ann Staver,
who is, active in the Dorset
Association both at the state and
national level, the family now owns
54 head of Dorset brood ewes, 40
fall lambs, and already has 5 head
of spring lambs. The winter
routine of ewe checks during the
lambing season is what kept
husband Kenneth Staver at home
and away from Farm Show on
Sunday.
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 15,1983—D13
top spots
Barbara Herr displays this ewe lamb's winning form. Judge
Leroy Boyd tagged Herr's entry Grand Champion Ewe during
Sunday’s Dorset competition.
circle with handler and owner Margaret Herr, Narvon, after
the ewe was tagged Reserve Grand Champion.
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