Until one has been to the OK Youth Expo, you cannot grasp the entirety of this vast spectacle.\u00a0 11 days in a hotel room can wear one out.\u00a0 I’ll be honest, as a whole, the Shattuck crew got the living hell beat out of us.\u00a0 We had our moments, but not like we are used to.<\/p>\n
The sheep show was wicked good.\u00a0 I don’t know what that crew around Elk City is doing, but they are doing it better.\u00a0 They are better–better shown, better animals, just better.<\/p>\n
The steer show was wicked.\u00a0 We didn’t have one good enough and it is what it is.<\/p>\n
As for the wether goat show.\u00a0 For the first time in the history of the OYE wether goat show, I did not have one in the hunt.\u00a0 We took 2 wethers.\u00a0 Both first time OYE wether showman.\u00a0 One was a left over triplet that would make a great first time prospect.\u00a0 The other a bottle baby flush kid that wasn’t bad but not great.\u00a0 This goat had already won a county grand champion and made the sale at Woodward District.\u00a0 Just sayin’…Darrell the wether didn’t owe us anything.<\/p>\n
Before Darrell came off the stand at OYE, I told the family, “Listen, you are going into a class with over a $100,000 worth of goats.\u00a0 If you walk to the next aisle over, there is a lineup of stands with at least 4 people fitting on each goat.\u00a0 You have a bottle baby wether that has already exceeded expectations and you have a worn-out old ag teacher that is a has-been.\u00a0 You better get him shown right.”\u00a0 Darrell got shown to his best potential.\u00a0 If Darrell had the “extra” enhancements….well, it might have been better.<\/p>\n
I watched the OYE wether show completely un-biased.\u00a0 I watched as the “pieces of the puzzle” came together.\u00a0 I had seen one goat that was WAY better than the rest.\u00a0 Yet, I saw a group of division and reserve division winners that had an odorous smell about them.\u00a0 Too many political ties.<\/p>\n
People, I did NOT want to write another Tulsa judge blog.\u00a0 I truly don’t.\u00a0 My reply—he found the RIGHT ONE for grand.\u00a0 Athletic, balanced, sound structured and legit muscled.\u00a0 Really good goat.\u00a0 \u00a0After that, it looked like a lot of goats had a steady diet of depo-medrol, air and were way too fat.<\/p>\n
I’m not bashing the judge.\u00a0 He found the right one and there wasn’t another one that tied to him.\u00a0 I’m not somebody whining about getting beat.\u00a0 I was just a spectator.\u00a0 But I do have knowledge and I understand the parts that were moving in the background.\u00a0 Before the grand drive, I told Schneberger, “Dude, I hope you have a political angle because the rest do.”\u00a0 In true Schneberger fashion, he laughed and said, “Hell, we’ve won it once and we are just happy to be here with a home-raised deal.\u00a0 We were hoping to be competitive in class.”<\/p>\n
I’ll tell you this much, Schneberger has something that is hard to buy.\u00a0 He has a bad-ass showman!\u00a0 She works.\u00a0 She knows what it is like to get beat and she knows what it is like to win.\u00a0 She has a fun, yet extremely confident air about her.\u00a0 Not arrogant.\u00a0 She is just like her mother.\u00a0 She isn’t brash and loud like her dad.\u00a0 (Not a bad guy in my opinion.)\u00a0 She is fun to watch and successful people want to be around her.\u00a0 If I had a young showman, I would want them to emulate that girl.<\/p>\n
In retrospect, I am real glad that OYE is over.\u00a0 I’m real glad that I don’t have to bash another judge.\u00a0 Yet, yet………damn!!!\u00a0 \u00a0 We better clean this deal up or at some point, it’s going to get ugly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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