Fulton, NY Show

Yesterday (10/24) we attended the Fulton show which is basically the last NY show of the fall season. There was an Open show in the morning and a Specialty in the afternoon hosted by the NY Angora Club. There was an unusually high number of FAs entered in both shows, which was fabulous! 47 were entered in the first and nearly the same amount was entered in the second, with 8 exhibitors. The judge for the first show was Helen Brose, and the Specialty was judged by Bob Shaftoe.

I brought 7 buns along with me to enter---3 Seniors and 4 Juniors. I don't normally bring a lot of juniors to shows simply because they are rarely able to compete with seniors and I don't like to stress them if it's not 100% necessary, but yesterday I loaded 3 FA/NZ cross babies (F4 generation) up for the first time to see how they would stack up against the purebreds. I don't feel that their wool is as good as the purebreds yet because they do not seem to have as much basal density and crimp, but the senior coats on the older ones are coming in evenly now and the seniors are starting to come closer to competitive show quality. This was a perfect show to test crosses in because there were 24 juniors entered alone, and a great deal of healthy competition for them.

In the morning Spang's Juno took BOB and Spang's Giacomo earned BOS. Spang's Etienne was the 2nd place Colored Sr. doe, Spang's DuBois (cross buck) took BOSV in the White class, Spang's Felix (cross buck) was the 1st place Colored Jr. buck, and Spang's Carmen (pure doe) was 1st place Colored Jr. doe.

In the second show Juno and Giacomo got BOB/BOS again, and Etienne took 2nd place CSD again. None of the juniors won their classes in this show, but 3 of 4 earned places in the top 3. At the end of this show Juno went on to take Specialty BIS.

Below are just a few pictures that were taken during the first show in the morning. The first two are of Helen Brose judging the Colored classes, and the last is of me taking buns out of the cubbies after the judging was over, LOL.









All in all it was lots of fun (as always:)), and now the season is over and I will be clipping everyone down and doing massive tons of breeding. There are some promising babies coming up out of the youngest litters who are almost 12 weeks old, and after this the herd will be smaller and more manageable again (at least until the next batch arrives, LOL).

On one final note, I would like to wish everyone who is heading out to San Diego next week for the ARBA Convention a safe trip and lots of luck. I am sure the weather will be perfectly ideal out there, and I look forward to hearing how it goes from the people who bring their laptops and report back to the lists.

Have a great week!:-)