A24-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September 21,2002 York Fair Hosts Full Slate Of Sheep Shows MICHELLE KUNJAPPU Lancaster Farming Staff YORK (York Co.) The York Fair recently hosted several days of sheep show action, including junior and open breed shows at tracting sheep of all varieties. In the open breeding show, su preme champion wool ewe hon ors went to Butch Carpenter, Jef ferson, Maryland. His ewe first took first place in the 1-year and under 2-year-old class. Brian and Doris Snyder, Reading, took home supreme champion wool ram with their spring ram lamb. In a showdown between the Cheviot, Hampshire, and South down rams the three sheep that judge Tim Hall picked out of a championship drive of meat breeds a homebred Hampshire owned by RJR Hampshires got Travis Flory, Red Lion, won supreme champion ewe placing at York Fair’s junior breeding sheep show. He is joined by Krissy Stem, Fawn Grove. the nod for supreme champion ram of the meat breeds at York Fair’s open breeding sheep show. Dick, Becky, and son Jay Ris hel. Seven Valleys, raised Elwood on their 17-acre farm of 40 head of sheep. The ram was also champion at the Maryland State Fair. A twin brother of the animal has also garnered good show placings, according to the Rishels, who are deciding which of the two rams to keep on the farm. Jay Rishel started raising Hampshires in 1995, and the family has built the flock from those beginnings. Besides the York and Mary land State Fairs, the family exhi bits sheep at Keystone Interna tional Livestock Exposition (KILE) and the national Hamp shire show at the North Ameri can International Livestock Ex position (NAILE). They also sell lambs to 4-H’ers, mainly as breeding sheep projecs. “We’re interested in helping kids get started in that respect,” said Dick Rishel. Watching their animals shown in the ring by young exhibitors is interesting and fun, according to Becky. In the ewe show of the meat breeds, Jen Flinchbaugh’s South down exhibited the best pattern, style, and productivity potential for a ewe, according to judge Hall, who named the ewe su preme champion. Flinchbaugh, 21, a senior at Penn State, has been showing sheep for 16 years and has shown cattle and hogs in the past. Her homebred, “Sheila,” is part of a 30-head flock that includes Southdown and crossbred sheep. She is the daughter of Ed and Lou Ann Keeny, York, and is studying animal science at the university. She plans to move on to law school to study agriculture law. The Farm Show, KILE, and Maryland State Fair are other shows on Flinchbaugh’s circuit. Tim Hall, Dalmatia, Northum berland County, judged the breeding show of the meat breeds. Hall works as a flock con sultant for Lauden Acres Dorsets, a 150-brood ewe operation. In the junior breeding sheep show, Travis Flory, 17, Red Lion, won supreme champion ewe placing in the junior breeding show with his homebred. Rebecca Butt took home supreme champi on ram placing in the same show. (Turn to Page A 25) Jen Flinchbaugh, York, and homebred Southdown “Sheila” took home supreme champion ewe placing at York Fair’s open breeding sheep show. She is Joined by her father, Ed Keeny. Becky and Dick Rishel, Seven Valleys, exhibited the su preme champion ram, a homebred Hampshire.
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