Sarah, ‘Sandy’ Stride To Lancaster Hog Championship
ANDY ANDREWS
Lancaster Farming Staff
MANHEIM (Lancaster Co.)
Sarah Boyd, 12, daughter of Kerry
and Deb Boyd, Clay, strode to a
grand championship at the Lancas
ter County 4-H Hog Show Wed
nesday with her 254-pound
Hampshire/Duroc cross' called
“Sandy.* ’
Reserve champion of the show
was awarded to Kevin Pfaulz, 10,
son of Rick and Sue Pfautz, Hphra
ta. Kevin showed his 226-pound
crossbred hog.
The grand champion hog, from
the heavyweight class, was pur
chased at the sale for $2.25 a pound
from Hatfield Quality Meats, for a
total of $571.50. The reserve
champion, from the lightweight
class, sold for $1.50 a pound to
Hatfield Quality Meats, for a total
of $339.
The reserve heavyweight
champion, shown by Nathan
Kreidcr, Elizabethtown, sold to
Ezra H. Good for $1.20 a pound.
Champion light heavyweight,
exhibited by Sarah Boyd, sold for
$1 a pound to Willie the Butcher.
Hatfield Quality Meats purchased
Gerald Boyd’s champion medium
weight hog for 7S cents a pound.
Willie the Butcher purchased Ger
ald’s reserve champion light
heavyweight for 7S cents a pound,
and Kevin Pfautz’s reserve champ
ion mediumweight for 75 cents a
pound. The reserve champion
lightweight, shown by Nathan
Hoover, was sold to Pro Genetics
for 90 cents a pound.
The grand champion hog is a
lineal descendant of the overall
reserve at last year’s Southeast
Hog Derby, and was picked from a
Strauss Brothers herd in Ephrata,
according to Sarah’s father, Kerry.
Sarah, who attends Ephrata
Middle School, also picked up
light heavyweight champion with
a 250-pound hog.
Kerry said that Sarah’s brother,
Gerald, was awarded champion
mediumweight hog and reserve
champion light heavyweight. Ger
ald and Sarah share equal responsi
bilities tending their SO head of
hogs. They will also exhibit at the
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RoMtv« champion of tha show waa awarded to Kevin gmh Boyd, 12, daughter of Kerry and Dab Boyd, Clay.
Pfautz, 10. eon of Rick and Sue Pfautz, Ephrata. Kevin strode to a grand championship at tha Lancaster County
showed his 226-pound crossbred hog. He is shown here 4. H Ho g show Wednesday with her 254-pound Hampshire/
with Tom Moyer, Hatfield Quality Meats representative. Duroc cross called “Sandy.” At right Is Tom Moyer, Hatfield
Quality Meats representative, who purchased the hog.
THE WINNING
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IN THE
WORLD FORAGE
ANALYSIS LEGEND
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SUPER BOWL
WITH A SCORE OF 97, THE FIELD-CURED ENTRY
TOPPED MORE THAN 400 OTHERS FROM 24 STATES
21.4% erode protein
34.5% neutral detergent fiber (NDF)
25.9% acid detergent fiber (ADF)
68.0% digestible dry matter and a relative feed value of 188
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