showchick said:
okay.. im not a snoty person but im going to be. first of all YES genetics have something to do with it.... but you have to exersise them to show that muscle!!! you can't just buy a good lamb and just FEED it... it can't sustane the muscle without building it!!!
when i asked this question i was looking for like " WE do thisthis this and this" ...not well exersising them doesn't make them win and that stuff.
Yes, actually you can buy, or make a good lamb, and keep it all summer on feed and take it to a show and win with it... Some of the most competitive market lamb show'rs I know don't work with isometrics before 2 weeks prior to the first show. Sure they teach to brace, but most wether type sheep of today do that naturally, or after 5 min of a good workout...
For instance, back when we jockied a few wether lambs (when I was in 4H), I took a wether lamb and a market ewe lamb to Springfield (IL State Fair). The wether lamb stood 4th in the AOB show, which was good enough to be either champion or reserve champion oxford of both days (Open and Jr); the ewe lamb I remember stood 3rd in the market ewe lamb show, which was all breeds combined. She weighed 132, and showed against about 15 other ewe lambs-- why do I remember this-- it was a great moment.
These two lambs lived with my breeding ewe lambs all summer, and a self feeder like the others. I walked into the pen the day I loaded up for state fair, and took these two out to go. Poor judgment on my part- probably.. but at the time I was gone all summer showing, and nobody was home to work with them. What would have happend if I had worked them.. who knows? At any rate, they both stood extremely well, with nothing but genetics... I know I have pictures to prove it, and imagine if I look hard enough at my parents house, I'd find the ribbons as well...