The 2010 Chautauqua County Fair has been a maze of excitement as Cornell Cooperative Extension of Chautauqua County's 4-H members prepare, care for, and show their animals. Show results for 4-H exhibitors also continue the excitement.
The 4-H fun continued Wednesday with a number of contests and demonstrations in the Poultry and Goat barns, Livestock arena, 4-H Building and at the county fair mini-stage. Wednesday's Poultry barn competitions included Poultry Showmanship in which Rick Hare judged youth on the presentation of their birds and knowledge of breed standards and bird raising. Poultry Showmanship is divided into two divisions: juniors ages 8-13 and seniors ages 14 19. Cloverbuds, 4-H members ages 5-8, are eligible to display birds and present their birds to the judges and are not evaluated for placing. Instead, each child is recognized for his/her participation. In the Senior Division, Cassandra Chapman was first and Katie Tenpas was second. In the First Year Showmanship Class, Tessa Warner took first and Mylissa Becker earned second.
During the showmanship contest, 4-H Poultry project participants got their own chance to 'be the judge' in the Poultry Judging Contest. In this contest, project participants are assigned classes to watch and listen and then place. Scores are tallied based on the correlation of participants' choices and the professional judge's choice. Everyone that participated received a blue ribbon.
4-H Goat Program participants performed at the Goat Arena in the Dairy Goat and Meat Goat Shows. Youth were judged by Peter Snyder who evaluated youth in Showmanship Classes based on how well each youth and goat performed together. Youth in the Goat Show also participated in Dairy and Market Classes in which animals were judged on respective breed standards and in Market Classes on finish and projected carcass quality. Market Goat participants will sell their animals at the 4-H Meat Animal Sale on Friday, July 30 beginning at noon.
Wednesday's Goat Show results are:
Goat Senior Showmanship
1st Devin Frisicaro
2nd Jacob Steinhoff
3rd Emily Masiker
Goat Junior Showmanship
1st Abigail O'Brien
2nd Gracie Morrison
3rd Samuel Starceski
Goat Novice Showmanship
1st Anna Talbot
2nd Justin Svetz
Grand Champion Showman is Devin Frisicaro
Master Showman is Kate Ewer
Cloverbuds are 4-H members under 9 years old that participate in non-competitive animal activities. This year, four youth participated in the 4-H Goat Cloverbud Program and exhibited their goats in the 4-H Goat Show. Each Cloverbud member received a variegated ribbon and a medallion for their participation.
Cloverbud participants were:
MaKayla LaRoy
Trey LaRoy
Michael Peterson
Rebekah Peterson
Rylynn Seeley
4-H Goat participants showed their animals in breeding classes in which the animals were evaluated on structure, balance, breed standards and body composition. In the 'all other purebreds' classes the Junior Champion is Shelby Sek with "ShelbyLand Stella," Reserve Junior went to Justin Svetz with "Ruby," Senior Champion went to Shelby Sek with "Small Meadows Princess Zosia," and Reserve Senior went to Abigail O'Brien with "O'Briens Mrs. Dash." Best Junior Doe in Show was won by Shelby Sek with "ShelbyLand Stella," Best Senior Doe in Show was won by Shelby Sek with "Small Meadows Princess Zosia." Supreme Champion of Show is Shelby Sek with "Small Meadows Princess Zosia" Shelby Sek received top honors for the Best Dam and Daughter with "Small Meadows Princess Zosia" and "ShelbyLand Princess Sophie." The Best Udder Award went to Shelby Sek's goat "Small Meadows Princess Zosia"
In the Market Classes, Kate Ewer's goats "Tori" received Best Junior and "Emmie" received Best Senior. "Emmie" was also titled Champion Doe, and "Liza" and "Kiley" received top honors as Best Dam and Daughter pair.
Kate's wins continued as she received Champion Meat Goat with "Zoe" and Reserve Champion Meat Goat with "Dru."
In the Pygmy Goat Division, Cole Morrison received Grand Champion with his goat "Rockhaven Ranch Miracle." Gracie Morrison received Reserve Champion with her goat "Rockhaven Ranch Arwen." In the Angora Division, Jacob O'Brien received Grand Champion with "Kayla," and Reserve Champion went to Emily Masiker with "Curly Top."
4-H members from throughout Region 1, (Chautauqua, Wyoming, Cattaraugus, Allegany, Erie, Orleans and Niagara counties), gathered Wednesday at the Chautauqua County Fair Horse Arena for the Regional Horse Judging Contest. Horse Judging is a skills contest in which 4-H Horse Project members can test their knowledge by 'being a judge.' Youth members judge classes of four horses including confirmation classes and performance classes. Youth evaluate, as a professional judge does, the balance, conformation, gaits and performance of each animal. Youth are also asked questions of each class they judge, helping to develop reasoning and critical evaluation of each animal. This year participants were from Chautauqua, Cattaraugus, and Wyoming counties. Congratulations to everyone.
Wednesday's Horse Judging Team placings are as follows:
Novice First Place Team: Hailey Swanson, Branden Decker, Cheyenna Meder, and Ryan Dustin from Chautauqua County. Novice individual top five awards are as follows: First place Hailey Swanson, Chautauqua County; second place Ryan Dustin, Chautauqua County; third place Kendra Kenyon, Wyoming County; fourth Michael Josephson, Wyoming County and fifth Megan Stang, Cattaraugus County.
First place Junior Team members are Carissa Peterson, Kendra Hockran, Rachel McCarthy and Ashley Crandall from Chautauqua County. Individual placings in the Junior Division are as follows: tied for first is Carissa Peterson, Chautauqua County. Second place was Kelly Crandall, Cattaraugus County; third was Rebecca Besock, Cattaraugua County; fourth place Kendra Hockran, Chautauqua County and fifth place Rachael McCarthy, Chautauqua County.
Senior First Place Team: Cattaraugus County. Team members included Katie Hinman, Colleen Bailey, Elizabeth Mosher and Abby Knight. Individual placings are as follows: First place Katie Hinman, Cattaraugus County; second place Colleen Bailey, Cattaraugus County; third place, Rourke Taylor, Wyoming County; a tie for fourth place between Elizabeth Mosher, Cattaraugus County and Jordan Taylor, Wyoming County; and fifth place Monica Buck, Chautauqua County.
4-H Clothing and Textiles Project members displayed handmade garments in Wednesday's 4-H Fashion Revue and Mannequin Modeling. Articles of clothing ranging from aprons to ball gowns were displayed by 4-H Project members. Youth in the Clothing and Textiles Project learn a variety of sewing skills and techniques with an outstanding opportunity to develop mastery. Wednesday's Fashion Revue Participants were:
Rachel Vailancourt
Billy Eskeli
Kiersten Lewis
Shelby Sek
Olivia Markham
Kate Ewer
Elizabeth Comstack
Joyce Wiltsie
Devin Frisicaro
Commentators provided a brief description of each 4-H member's age, experience, club and clothing items. Wednesday's commentators were: Rachel Vaillancourt and Kate Ewer
4-H members who participated in Mannequin Modeling were:
Shelby Sek
Devin Frisicaro
Kate Ewer
Rachel Vailancourt
Elizabeth Comstock
Joyce Wiltsie
Wednesday 4-H youth gave a variety of public presentations in the 4-H Building. Youth were evaluated by presentation judges and 4-H volunteers Irene Lesch and Melissa Bartol.
Wednesday's participants were:
Alyssa Crandall
Holly Crandall
Billy Eskeli
Kiersten Lewis
Conner Hellner
Trevor Dykstra
Kelsie Briggs
Brandon Barron
Kevin Rodgers
Stephanie Rodgers
Jack Penharlow
Maggie Jones
Liam Jones
Emily Wright
Monica Orosz
Thursday's 4-H Public Presentations will be in the 4-H Building from 2:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m.