WEEPING WATER – 14-year-old Jillian Muntz credits a summer of showing and the Southdown flock on her family’s farm near Louisville for championship runs in the 4-H breeding and market lamb shows at the Cass County Fair.

The Southdown breed is known for its farm-flock production because of good lambing ability and milk production.

Muntz: “It’s a breed of sheep that they are all white and it seems …. What we’ve seen is that they are really gentle.”

Muntz  showed the supreme market lamb with a purchased crossbred and the reserve champion breeding lamb, which is a crossbred born on her farm.

 

Judge Colby Collins of Central City said Muntz’s 137-pound market lamb had the best side profile and was showy as he traveled.

Muntz was also the intermediate showmanship champion. Her sister Emily was the top senior showman. Penelope Fanagan, who also shows Southdown sheep, was the top junior showman.

 

 

Muntz: “We went to a lot of jackpot shows this summer and we got our lambs out and let them show and just kept feeding them and just went through the year.”

Jackpot shows are livestock progress shows open to all youth in different age brackets where an entry fee is charged and cash prizes awarded.

 

Muntz said it means a lot to win at the Cass County Fair and offered some advice for showing sheep.

Muntz: “You have to stay calm with them because they can sense your feelings.”

A lightweight lamb shown by Emmit Jones was the reserve supreme lamb.

Layton Brauckmiller’s crossbred ewe was named the champion in the breeding show.