Livestock judging

How to Judge Sheep When judging sheep, the evaluation should begin from the ground, then work your way up the an...

Things to know for livestock judging before you start!!!

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Learning to judge 4-H Livestock Judging Programs: How to Judge Swine

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Livestock Judging Reasons Outline

Selection used to be entirely phenotypic. Everybody was an expert in structural evaluation and based decisions off what was seen by the naked eye. Then came the performance movement of the 1960s and ’70s, and the industry shifted to modern evaluation systems and selection tools such as expected progeny differences (EPDs) as a large part of their selection.

I found this video on YouTube, hope you learn something about judging cattle from it. Beef is the easiest thing to judge for me. When judging cattle you want to look for muscle, volume, and structural correctness. When I come up to the class I first want to look at the animals from behind and place them in my mind according to how they look. Then I start working my way forward, looking at all the traits that make a good animal. After I have looked at the cattle (steer, heifer, bull)…

http://www.ca.uky.edu/agripedia/AGMANIA/BREEDS/SHEEPD.asp. Excellent resource for all breeds of livestock, meats and livestock judging, equipment ID, etc.

This lamb is .... what you want in a show lamb.

There’s nothing like a livestock show, but someday you’ll age out of the youth programs you participate in today. However, with sharpened industry knowledge and public speaking skills, you might just be the one picking a champion on the green shavings in Louisville or Houston 20 years from now. Livestock judging, and the skills acquired [...]Read More...

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Learning to judge 4-H Livestock Judging Programs: How to Judge Beef