Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Above: Logan Dozier talks to a judge at the Waitsburg Junior Livestock Show in June, the launch of project season for many kids in the Touchet Valley; Middle: Taylor Frame works on the display poster for her 4-H club Pots Pins; Below: Kim Hamann shows her ribbons for her sheep Todd at the Junior Livestock Show.
WAITSBURG - Kim Hamann has presented pigs at local fairs before, but her favorite animal to raise and show is a sheep.
One of the reasons is that the 14-year-old Future Farmers of America member has raised sheep on her family farm since she was five. The other reason is that she has feels "the best connection" with sheep from the time they're still lambs to well beyond the yearling stage. This year, for instance, she brought her 1.5-year-old sheep Todd to the Junior Livestock Show in Waitsburg just to enter in the Fitting and Showing category and won the Grand Champion ribbon.
Hamann is one o...
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