Day Clinches Market
Lamb Title
At New Holland
LOU ANN GOOD
Lancaster Farming Staff
NEW HOLLAND (Lancaster
Co.) “Miles,” a heavyweight
Suffolk crossbred, clinched
championship titles at both Denver
and Ephrata Fairs recently. But the
big question was throughout the
season: could Miles capture the
champion market lamb title in the
hometown of owner Rachel Day?
On Wednesday evening. Miles
proved that his 132-pound power
fully muscled frame could outclass
the best at the New Holland Fair
Sheep and Lamb Show.
Tm surprised. I knew there
were a lot other good ones in the
ring,” 15-year-old Rachel said as
she clutched the trophy.
In order to keep Miles from
adding too much weight to his
frame, Rachel fed him oats and
exercised him.
The daughter of Cliff and Anna Day,
Rachel is a sophormore at Garden Spot High
School. Not only did she clinch the champ
ion market lamb tide but she also placed
first in showmanship for first-year
competitors.
Another first-year competitor, Heather
Ziegler, 9, showed the reserve champion
market lamb, another heavyweight
Heather’s Suffolk-Dorset crossbred is
one of nine head purchased from a western
breeder. Nicknamed Jake, the reserve
champion weighed 124 pounds. Heather
said the sheep are walked about half a mile
daily. The daughter of Dean and Carole Zie
gler of Lititz, Heather is a fourth grader at
Manheim Christian Day School.
She admitted that she owes much to the
assistance of her older brothers’ Corby and
Brandon, who consistendy win market lamb
tides at New Holland, Manheim, and Eli
zabethtown. In fact later Wednesday even
ing, her brother Corby showed both champ
ion and reserve champion in the non-sale
Corby Ziegler shows the champion
non-sale market iamb. It was the first
year, New Holland Fair opened the
non-sale category to exhibitors.
lamb division. It was the Erst year
New Holland Fair offered a non
sale division.
Corby showed similar lambs,
Bucky and Chewy, to his sister’s
market lamb champions. The non
sale lambs will be entered at Man
heim Farm Show next week.
Out of the 115 head competing
at New Holland, Travis Werley,
judge, named the 90-pound market
lamb lightweight champion, and
Holly Hoover’s 100-pound lamb,
reserve.
Mediumweight champion and
reserve were homebred twins
shown by Ryan Donough of
Manheim.
In breeding sheep competition,
Jen Zimmerman, Ephrata, showed
a Southdown ewe to take the grand
champion breeding sheep tide over
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At the New Holland Fair Sheep Show, Travis Werley selects Rachel Day’s heavy
weight, right, as the champion market lamb and Heather Ziegler’s as the reserve
champion.
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