Fat Sheep Classes

Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 33, 9 February 1937, Page 3

Fat Sheep Classes

FEILDING SHOW AWARDS. The following are the awards made in the fat sheep (killing classes) at last woek’s Feilding A. and P. Show, the carcases being judged at the freezing works of Messrs. Thos. Borthwick and Son:— Three wethers or three maiden ewes, Down crosses, under 21 months: W. G. Booth 1 and 2 and h.c., M. D. Colquhoun 3, D. W. Reid v.h.c. Three wethers, Longwool or Longwool crosses under 21 months: H. B. Johnston 1 and 2, F. J. Boddy 3, E. Sinclair v.h.c. Three fat lambs, Down and Longwool crosses: W. G. Booth 1 and 3, M. D. Colquhoun 2, A. S. Brewster v.h.c., J. M. Campbell h.c. Three fat tegs, Down or Longwool crosses; Est. E. Short 3, W. G. Booth 2 and v.h.c., F. J. Boddy 3 and c., J. M. Campbell h.c. Two fat lambs, shorn, Down crosses: J. M. Campbell 1, W. G. Booth 2 and 3. Judge’s Comments. The judge (Mr. Drysdale) submitted Ihe following comment on tho exhibits: — Class 215: The whole class comprised beautiful quality sheep, the placed pens especially being of outstanding quality with breeding points predominating. The remainder were good, marketable sheep, one rather fat, one showing colour and several showing signs of shrinkage. Class 217: The first and second pens contained good, marketable sheep but the remainder were not so good. Well enough bred but two were slightly coloured and some inclined to run to leg. Class 231: The first prize pen was of outstanding quality and breeding. The second prize pen contained two good lambs, one showing a slight weakness. Tho third prize pen was well bred and even but one lamb showed pronounced weakness on loin and shoulders. The remainder were good, marketable lambs. Pens Nos. 563, 556, 564 and 565 entered in this class contained lambs over 421bs. freezing weight so could not compete and will not go to London to compete for tho Fitter Cup. Class 232: The first and second prize pens were of outstanding quality with little between them. The third prize pen was of very nico lambs with ono showing a little weakness in the loin. The fourth prize pen was very similar but two lambs wero a little split. The fifth prize pen also contained two split lambs. Class 235: Pens Nos. 607 and 610 contained lambs over 42lbs. There was very little between first and prize pens in this class, both having one lamb showing a slight weakness. Discussing the exhibits generally Mr. Drysdale said that the quality and breeding points of the exhibits were excellent and from a marketing point of view, outstanding as they were, very few sheep *r lambs were wasteful from excess of fat. A few pens could have stood a little more finish and the colour was a little washy, probably due to the wet season, but as a whole the quality was excellent. He was very pleased to see that farmers were not bringing forward for these classes the overfat type which sometimes scored in the showing but as a marketable proposition, when killed, wero much too wasteful.