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Junior Members
Welcome
to the ARBA Junior page - dedicated to our enthusiastic young
members!
The ARBA mission
statement for youth is
"To
encourage youth to care and maintain Romney sheep as a way
of learning responsibility. To encourage youth to join with
other Romney youth to learn sportsmanship, enhance social
skills, ethical behavior, leardership traits and a better
understanding of success and failure."
For more information on Romneys for youth, see:
Romneys
for Youth Booklet (1.8 MB PDF)
Romneys
for Youth Brochure (0.5 MB PDF)
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Above:
Brady Clark, New Hampshire, July 2007, NEYSS |
Junior Album
- 2007
| Below: Photos from the 2007 NAILE Junior
Show |
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Above
left: Ashton Shea, Champion Ram. Above right: Past President
Sue Barker with Sean Pence and Champion 323.
Right:
Rachel Dey and Sean Pence.
Bottom
left: President Sue Barker with Rachel Dey. Bottom right: Windy
Oaks Farm. |
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| Below: Washington State Juniors at the
2007 Puyallup Fair. Left to right: Samantha Douge with her Reserve
Champion
NC
Romney Ewe; Ciera Pedroni with her Champion NC Romney Ewe and Adrian
Voelker with her Champion Ram and Supreme Ram. |
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| Below: Michala Brown, at the 2007
Oregon Flock and Fiber Festival with Penelope and judge Marin Dally. Penelope
won 1st Place in her Class, Reserve Champion in her Division, Best
Fleece in her Division. She went on the next day to Win the Morris
Culver Diamond Award for Best Fleece of the entire show. |
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At right: 2007
Middletown Grange Fair, Bucks County, PA. Back row: - Henry Green III, Ethan Green, Justin Andress, Brett
Poorman
Front row: - Ryan Coleman; Rachel Dey |
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Below:
Junior member Taylor Loehner, WA, at the 2007 Clark County
WA Fair with "Annie" |
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ARBA
Juniors that attended the July 2007 NEYSS: Brady Clark,
NH - Sarah-Jean Griffin, CT - Colby Clark, NH - Leslie Lupien,
CT - Taylor Clark, NH Sadie Moore, NH - Amber Corliss, VT -
Emma Morton, RI - Haley Corliss, VT - Lindsey Roush, VT - Rachel
Dey, NJ - Abigail Foster, NY
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ARBA
Juniors that attended the July 2007 NEYSS: Brady Clark,
NH - Sarah-Jean Griffin, CT - Colby Clark, NH - Leslie Lupien,
CT - Taylor Clark, NH Sadie Moore, NH - Amber Corliss, VT - Emma
Morton, RI - Haley Corliss, VT - Lindsey Roush, VT - Rachel Dey,
NJ - Abigail Foster, NY |
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Beauty Is Not Everything
A Story about Sheep
in New Zealand
By Sadie Moore
age 9
In
New Zealand you don’t breed sheep because you think they are
cute. It doesn’t matter if they are cute or not because they just
have to be tough. Actually some of the sheep they breed are kind of ugly.
I know that everyone likes different types of sheep except some of the
farmers don’t even like the looks of the sheep they are breeding.
For example, the Texels are used a lot. Some farmers don’t like
the look of the Texels but they bred with them so they get lambs that
will grow, be strong, get a lot of meat and live. Lucky for some farmers,
they like the look of the Texels so it is a win - win situation for them
because they get to have the kind of sheep they think are “cute” and
they are tough.
A lot of people in NZ have Romneys and Texels. They also use Border
Leicester rams on Romney ewes (which makes a Coopworth) and sometimes
Cheviots
on Romneys (Perendales). But most people don’t like the
craziness of these. Almost everybody has Romneys because they
are easy to get along
with, can survive in the environment, have nice wool and grow
nice lambs. The farmers try lots of combinations with their Romneys.
Basically, if you are in NZ you have to have a tough, meaty and
self reliant sheep! Beauty is just a bonus. (I learned this
on my trip
to New Zealand, 2007)
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Here's
a file photo of Sadie from 2005 with a diapered amb to at
her school. |
The results and
photos above are not meant to leave anybody out! They are just the
ones that have been submitted for 2007. Photos from prior years are
here: 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 and
2006.
Last Updated 2/11/2008
All membership questions
and Association business should be sent to the ARBA Secretary, Jean Kamenicky,
at secretary@americanromney.org.
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