Goof Competition Wraps Up Final Event At Farm Show LOU ANN GOOD Lancaster Fanning Staff HARRISBURG (Dauphin Co.) One hundred fifty four goat entries wrapped up the final com petition at die Pennsylvania Farm Show on Thursday. A Toggenburg owned by Ann Miller Weikel clinched the Best Doe in the Show tide. Rockspring Will Gleam not only looks good but has a proven lactadon record just three weeks shy of milking two years straight according to Weikel. “She consistently milks just shy of seven pounds a day,” Weikel said. The doe is appraised “very good 89 as a four year old.” The doe comes from a family of achievers. Her mother was a for mer grand champion and milked 4,500 pounds of milk. With the doe’s daughter, the pair placed first as dam and daughter. Weikel who married and moved her herd to Huntingdon within the past year was formerly from Mont gomery County. In the move, she kept her SO milking goats and added a few more. The move, she said, was elected fr lr di fir I No hernia is unrepairable, even after several previous railed attempts. We specialize in outpatient hernia repairs, and most patients are able to return to full work with-in several days. PLEASE CALL COLLECT OR WRITE FOR MORE INFORMATION MID RTLRNTIC SURGICRL SERUICES 217 Harrisburg Ave., Suits 201 Lancaster, PA 17603 (600) HERNIA 8 MOST INSURANCE ACCEPTED milk pick up to the Fleur de lait cheese plant The majority of Weikel’s herd are doe kids that she freshened out within the past seven year. “I have 10 real quality does,” Weikel said of her herd that con sists of Toggenburgs, LaManchas, and a few recorded grades. A consistent champion at the Farm Show, Weikel had tight com petition from the the Grand Champion Nubian, which was last year’s Best Doe of Show. GCH Starfire WFBC Angelica is owned by Helen Snyder of Newport in Perry County. The Starfire Nubian is classified excellent and has been named All American twice. The homebred Nubian is one of 30 head at Star Fire Farm. Snyder started raising goats 14 years ago. She remembers it well because her due date for her first child was due the day of the show. Snyder attended the show then gave birth to a daughter that night. She has been competing at Farm Show ever since and has won champions most years. The Champion Alpine was "arm BUILDING THE FAMILY FARM FOR GENERATIONS I We watch over every step in the manufacture, assembly and construction of your building. Morton operates five manufacturing facilities, strategically located to serve you efficiently. Our high-volume buying power enables us to purchase the finest raw materials at the lowest possible price. Components for your structure are manufactured, fabricated and assembled under the watchful eyes of quality control experts. We maintain a fleet of company-owned and operated trucks, enabling our drivers to unload your building materials quickly and safely. From that point, a crew of company-trained, company-employed, and company-insured construction professionals takes over. They are trained to follow the most efficient and safe construction methods possible, and are supplied with state-of-the-art equipment and quality materials to make your facility something to be proud of for years to .. An .?.y.! l L #r Weikel * how# h «r Toggenburg named Best Do* of Show in goat competl- With her are Richard Stoneback, Judge, and Pa. Dairy Goat Youth Rapraaantativa Christina Michalik. Show. Fifteen-year-old Derrick Carpenter of Newville, Cumber land County, showed Der-Car Sue Ellen, a two-year-old Alpine that was homebred. Carpenter said that he started showing goats when he was eight. He has 18 head listed under Der- Car Dairy Goats. The Alpine milks about 11 pounds. In the La Mancha division, Car ole Robinson of Shippensburg showed her La Mancha Champion Challenge ECH Posey-A. Noted for its length of neck and mam mary system, the La Mancha champion, which milks 13 pounds daily, is one of 28 that Robinson raises on the family’s Laurel Mountain Farm. She milks seven goats. Her four children and a grandchild consume lots of the milk. The remainder is used to feed the family’s calves on the beef farm. Robinson has been raising goats for seven years and had shown a champion two years ago at the Farm Show. Jamie Harpster showed Sundown-Herd Blossom in All Other Purebreds division for the grand champion honor. “She’s my best milker.” Harp ster said of the 95 goats she raises at Pine Hollow Farms in Reedsvil *B le. Hatpster only recently started the dairy. She uses a bucket milker, which allows her to milk two at a time. According to Harps ter, the All Other Pmebreds Champion was a former grand champion two yean ago. Showing the grand champion in the recorded grades was Judith Jaxtheimer, VMD. “She’s a top 10 doe in the coun try. She’s #lO in product, #lO in butterfat, and seven in protein with 2,940 pounds milk. “She not only wins but milks,” said Jaxtheimer. Jaxtheimer has been showing for six yean out of the 10 that she has been in the goat business. Most of that time, she has planned in the winner’s circle. The Grand Champion this year is from a fami ly that has won four or five grand champion ribbons for Jaxtheimer. Jaxtheimer presses for type and product out of her herd of several dozen La Manchas. “That’s where it’s all at." she said. Jaxtheimer said of the goats that she raises mostly for a hobby, “They’re cheaper than a psychiat rist. They don’t talk back and they don’t leaver dirty underwear around." MORTON W BUILDINGS 717/624-3331 3368 York Rd. Gettysburg, PA 17325 800-447-7436 Here is a partial listing of results. DAIRY GOATS ALPINE DIVISION KIDS 8 TOlO MONTHS: 1. Darrick A. Car pantar: 2. Water SHwart. KIDS UNDER2YHB NOT IN MILK: 1. Water SHwart; 2. Darrick A. Carparter; 3. Stapha nla Bailay. DOES IN MLK UNDER 2 YEARS: 1. Darrick A. Carparter; 2. Bavarty Jana Brown. DOES IN MILK 2TO 4 YEARS: 1. Darrick A. Carpantar; 2. Roaamary Sprankla; 3. Roaamaiy Sprankla. DOES IN MILK 4 AND OLDER: 1. Roaamary Sprankla. SENIOR CHAMPION DOE: 1. Darrick Carpantar. RESERVE SENIOR CHAMPION DOE; 1 Roaamary Sprankla. GRAND CHAMPION DOE: 1. Darrick Carpaniar. RESERVE GRAND CHAMPION DOE; 1 Roaamary Sprankla. DAM AND DAUGHTER: 1. Roaamary Sprankla. GET OF SIRE; 1. Roaamary Sprankla. HERO GROUP: 1. Darrick Carpaniar; 2. Roaamary Sprankla. BEST DOE BRED BY EXHIBITOR: 1. Dar rick A. Carpaniar; 2. Darrick A. Carpaniar; 3. Wallar Stawart LA MANCHA DIVISION KIDS UNDER • MONTHS: 1. Ann J. MlOar Wafkal. KIDS I TOlO MONTHS: 1. Kattilaan Staw art; 2. Carola Robirwon; 3. Judith Jaxthaimar VMD. KIDS UNDER 2YR NOT IN MILK; 1. Ann J. MNlar Waikal; 2. Carola Robin ton; 3. Carola Robinson. JUNIOR CHAMPION KID; 1. Ann J. Millar Waikal. (Turn to Page BIB) 908/454-7900 P.O. 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