Success Strategies Vary At Reading Fair Sheep Show
NICKI LEFEVER
Special Correspondent
LEESPORT (Berks Co.)
From left, 2003 Pennsylvania Lamb and Wool Queen
Amber Shollenberger distributed ribbons at the Reading
Fair Wool Show. Amanda Miller took grand champion ewe
with Queeny, chosen by Judge Marlyn Stroh. Mallory Ket
terer’s ram Zeke won grand champion ram.
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“She (Queeny) was crowned
queen today,” Amanda’s mom,
Joan said after a friend picked
the name for Queeny on the spot.
Queeny is the grand champion
ewe and Amanda is the reigning
2003 Berks County Lamb and
Wool Queen.
Amanda is no stranger to
sheep showing. The 18-year-old
grew up on her family’s sheep
farm in Bemville and has been
raising and breeding sheep for 15
years, she said.
Amanda said she knew
Queeny would fair well because
she placed high as a lamb. Her
secret to success is experience.
“I go to a lot of fairs and I am
used to being in the show ring,”
she said. “I know my animals’
flaws and I work with them.”
Other winners at the show in
clude 12-year-old Mallory Ketter
er, Bemville; 11-year-old Shelby
Rarick, Fleetwood; and
10-year-old Jere Essig, Bemville.
Mallory is raising sheep in sub
urbia, her mom Jo-Ann said. She
raises 12 sheep on land they rent
from a farmer behind their house.
Her Border Leicester, Zeke, won
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grand champion ram. Mallory
said she was pleased with the re
sults, but her mom said she was
surely stunned.
“I know (Mallory) thought she
was in last place,” Jo-Ann Ket
terer said.
In Shelby Rarick’s third year
showing, she only brought two
sheep from her family’s Fleet
wood beef farm to the show. Be
yonce, her ewe, won grand cham
pion market lamb. Shelby was
calm and collected and said her
secret to success was walking the
sheep 10 to 15 minutes everyday.
Jere Essig was full of excite
ment when he found out his mar-
From left, Jere Essig displays Dusty, the reserve cham
pion market lamb. Shelby Rarick hangs onto Beyonce, the
grand champion market lamb.
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ket lamb. Dusty, became the re
serve grand champion market
lamb.
He said raising sheep on his
family’s pig and sheep farm is a
lot of work. His routine includes
walking them everyday and
shaving and washing them every
weekend.
“It’s worth it,” he said.
Marlyn Stroh judged the sheep
and said a few times it was hard
to choose the winner and other
times he had no problem. He said
there might not be a lot of com
petition in each of the classes, but
overall he was finding the kind of
individuals he liked to handle.