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ence. “Well, sometimes I sat in the feed trough,” he said. “I’d just move some of the feed over and sit down. That way, if he wanted to eat, he’d have to let me be around him.”
As J.J. got closer to the July Farm Show, Scotty tried to practice leading him every day. He got so he was docile with the rope halter, but he seemed to especially like the show halter.
“As soon as we put the show halter on, he was ready to go,” said Scotty’s mother, Toni. “He seemed to know he was going to be shown, and he seemed to like it.”
Winning Grand Champion in his first real year of 4-H competition is a tremendous honor for a young boy, but Scotty seems almost as proud of the trophy Toni won in a new Farm Show event: parents’ showing.
“I’d just have to say that J.J. was a great first-year calf,” laughed Toni, “for Scotty and for me.”
Alice Reeve, who won a second in the middleweight market lamb class, found that constant working with the animals was as rewarding as the competition. Youngsters get their lambs in May, when they’re three months old, and sell them a few months later, so they must become halter broken and used to people quickly. “When we buy lambs, we look for an animal who’s already curious,” she said. “You wouldn’t pick out a lamb that’s huddled in a comer, and you wouldn’t pick a lamb with obvious disease.”
Alice and her brother Robbie
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