Market Animal Shows See Increase In Numbers

Aug 14, 2024 09:35AM ● By Jody Reeves

Grand Champion Showman winners left to right Taygen Lewis (horse), Holt Olenslager (steer), Kade Kimball (goat), Lydia Hamilton (sheep), Carson Reeves (swine).

This year's market animal shows saw a slight bump in the number of youth participants, with the total number of animals shown nearing the century mark. The market animal shows at the Caribou County Fair include beef, sheep, swine, and goats.

There were several new faces showing this year to go with the traditional families that have been showing at the fair for years. This provided each show with its own high level of competition. Each participant in each show not only competed for the honor of their animal being named Grand Champion but also competed in Showmanship classes. Participants in the showmanship classes show their animals in a similar fashion as the quality classes but the judge is judging the human participant rather than the animal.

It is a great honor to win Grand Champion in either class but the Showmanship class is based more on the aspects of the project that are under the youths control such as how well trained their animal is and their knowledge of their project. The top showman in each of the four species of animals then joins the top showman from the horse competition to compete in a Round Robin.

In this competition, each showman makes an attempt to show all five animals against each other for the overall Round Robin winner. With so many more participants this year's shows were an impressive display of quality animals as well as quality showmen.

Congratulations to all the winners listed below:

Grand Champion Market Steer: Brigham Mickelson

Reserve Champion Market Steer: Tessica Jorgensen

Grand Champion Steer Showman: Holt Olenslager

Reserve Champion Steer Showman: Colt Christensen

Grand Champion Market Sheep: Rhett Crofts

Reserve Champion Market Sheep: Lydia Hamilton

Grand Champion Sheep Showman: Lydia Hamilton

Reserve Champion Sheep Showman: Bryson Andersen

Grand Champion Market Swine: Tyelor Turner

Reserve Champion Market Swine: Carson Reeves

Grand Champion Swine Showman: Carson Reeves