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Junior Sheep Breeders
BY USA RISSER
HARRISBURG More than
50 young sheep breeders from
around the state exhibited their fin
est ewe lambs and yearlings at the
Farm Show’s Junior Breeding
Sheep competition. The difficult
task of choosing champions and
reserve champions fell to Monty
Chappel from Lexington, Ky. He
selected them from the Cheviot,
Dorset, Hampshire, Shropshire,
Southdown, and Suffolk breeds as
well as a champion and reserve in
the Other Breeds category.
Cheviot
In her nine years of showing
Cheviots at Farm Show, Donna
MacCauley of Atglen in Chester
County has had a champion or a
York Countian Drew Banked showed his first champion
Southdown this year, his second year of competition at
Farm Show. A second-year 4-H’er, 10-year-old Banked's
champion is a ewe lamb.
Both champion and reserve champion titles went to the
Dorsets shown by Stacey Suffel, right, of Carlisle. These
were Suffers first champions in the four years that she has
been exhibiting at Farm Show.
year. This year was no exception
as the 18-year-old daughter of Wil
liam and Joan MacCauley cap
tured both top honors with her
sheep.
Chappel selected her homebred
yearling ewe as champion, thereby
adding to its titles, which include a
second-place finish in the junior
show at the North American Inter
national Livestock Exhibition. The
ewe’s sire is a Shoop ram and her
dam is an Erdheim granddaughter.
Dorset
Fourteen-year-old Stacey Suffel
of Carlisle expected her ewe lamb
to do well as it has been named
champion of other shows. Chappel
didn’t let her down as the lamb was
named champion of the Dorset
division. Suffel’s year! took
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home the reserve champion title.
Suffel, the daughter of John and
Shirley Suffel, has been exhibiting
at Farm Show for four years, and
these were her first champions.
Hampshire
Lancaster Countian Wendall
Landis will have good memories
of his first Farm Show competi
tion, particularly as he received
both purple rosettes for his Hamp
shires. The 13-year-old son of Abe
and Dottie Landis of Manheim,
Landis is a fourth-year 4-H’er.
Both of his champions were ewe
lambs. Brittany, the champion,
was reserve champion at the 1988
Lancaster County 4-H Woolies
Roundup, while the reserve
champion, Morgan, was champion
at the 1988 Elizabethtown Fair.
Shropshire
Everyone has their own image
of the perfect breeding sheep and
these images differ. Such was the
case at the open and junior breed
ing sheep shows. Chappcl selected
Geoff Powell’s yearling ewe as
champion, while the open show
judge named her reserve champ
ion. Powell also had the champion
in this year’s open Shropshire
show, but that animal didn’t place
in the junior championship drive.
Powell, the 11-year-old son of
Doris Powell of Rome, also had
the 1987 Farm Show champion
Shropshire in the open and junior
contests. He is a third-year 4-H’cr.
Jessica McCrumb of Mars in
Butler County took home the
reserve champion title. Chappel
was impressed with her ewe lamb,
which he named first in its class.
Southdown
Ewe lambs dominated the
championship drive in the South
down competition. Drew Bankert
of Red Lion received the purple
rosette for the first time at Farm
Show for his first-place ewe lamb,
Snowhite. Slipping into the
reserve champion slot was Eli
zabeth Dollar of Bedford with Dol
lar 69.
Bankert, the 10-year-old son of
Michael and Joyce Bankert, is a
second-year 4-H’er and has been
showing at Farm Show for only
two years.
Suffolk
Only hours after winning the
Cheviot division, Donna MacCau
ley was accepting another champ
ionship ribbon, this time for her
Suffolk ewe lamb. Her champion,
Breezeview 588, also was named
champion of the open show.
Breezeview’s dam was champion
of last year’s Farm Show open and
junior shows, while her sire was
champion of both 1988 and 1989
Farm Show open competitions.
Chappcl tapped the yearling
ewe shown by T.L. Brookovcr Jr.
as reserve champion.
Other Breeds
Competition was stiff among
the wool breeds that comprised
this division. Rich Powell’s year
ling Rambouillct ewe was first in
its class and champion of the divi
sion. Powell, the 14-year-old son
of Doris Powell of Rome, is a five
year Farm Show veteran who has
had reserve champions before. He
had a feeling his yearling would do
well as she was selected as
supreme champion ewe of the
Troy Fair and champion at the
New York Stale Fair.
Chappcl selected the ewe lamb
shown by Kimberly Hopple as the
reserve champion. Hopple’s lamb
was a Corricdale.
A partial listing of the placings
follows.
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Cheviot
Yearling Ewe
1. Donna MaoCauley, Chester Co.. 2.
champion at Farm Show. In her nine years of showing Che*
viots, she has had a champion or reserve in almost all of
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Lori Tyson of Lehigh County. Offering his congratulations
was Judge Monty Chappel. The annual award is given to the
individual who has contributed to 4-H or the Dorset
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Hampshire competition with his ewe lambs to have both
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the champion Shropshire ewe. The ewe was reserve
champion of the open show. His brother, Rich, left, added
another championship title to the family’s coffer when his
Rambouillet was Judged champion of the Other Breeds
competition.
Jodie Frantz, Lehigh Co, 3 Jodie Frantz.
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1. Donna MacCauley, 2. John S. Eaton. 1- Stacy Suffel, Cumberland Co.. 2 Alicii
Jr, York Co , 3 Jodie Frantz Strausbaugh, York Co., 3. Alici
Champion Ew. Strausbaugh.
Donna MacCauley
Reserve Champion Ewe
Donna MacCauley
Ewe Lamb
1. Stacy Suffel, 2. Lori Tyson, Lehigh Co.
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