Flock competition

The 2008 flock competition was judged by John Hunter from cairnhill. We were placed 3rd in the stock ram class with Riverdale govenor and placed 3rd in the small flock of ewes.

2008 Shows

The first show we attended was Balmoral show. We were placed 5th with our senior stock tup riverdale Govenor and 5th with our shearling ewe recieving very good comments. Our shearling ewe was purchased from Sharon and Norman McMordie as a ewe lamb. She is the same way bred as our stock ram sired by Foulrice Firebrand and out of a Dynamite mother.

Our next show was lurgan show were we were placed with both are animals. We got 3rd in the shearling class  with the same shearling as Balmoral and 3rd in tha ewe lamb class. The ewe lamb is by castelau favourite and out of a castelau ultra mother. Her mothers grand dam is the famous rutland leveche who is also the grand dam of rockvilla golden promise.

At Armagh show we showed the same 2 sheep as in lurgan and were placed 3rd in each class once again.

In our last show of the year saintfield show we took out a team of 4 comprising of the ewe lamb, our shearling ewe from the previous shows and another shearling ewe purchased from the Riverdale flock of Sharon and Norman McMordie, and our senior stock ram Riverdale Govenor. We had a sucessfull day picking up 4 second places including the group of three.

 

 show ewe lamb

 

 

 the dam of this years show ewe lamb