Junior Fair Skillathon winners announced – BG Independent News

Junior Fair Skillathon winners announced – BG Independent News

Nearly 400 Wood County Junior Fair youth participated in the Livestock Skillathon on July 16 at the Wood County Junior Fair Building. They were able to compete in eight different animal species, including beef, dairy, goats, horses, poultry, rabbits, sheep, and swine. Each skillathon station quizzed members on their knowledge of breeds, body parts, medication, feed, and structure. The skillathon contest is divided into senior (14 and over) and junior (13 and younger) categories. The skillathon is one of the components of the champion project within each species. The results are as follows: Horses – Junior Division 1st– Kallie Lewark, Wood N Horses 2nd– Ava Seibert, Cactus Kids 3rd– Khloe Johns, Saddles N Surreys 4th– Kennedy Seibert, Cactus Kids 5th– Ayla Kramp, Wood N Horses 6th– Olivia Violi, Horses R Us 7th– Riley Rowland, Wood N Horses 8th– Kaitlyn Grames, Sunset Saddlers 9th tie – Hailey Dixon, Wood N Horses, and Gracelyn Boswell, Sunset Saddlers 10th– Kaylee Kesling, Horses R US Wood County Junior Fair Skillathon participants work at horse testing station. Horses – Senior Division 1st–Laina Schmeltz, Sunset Saddlers 2nd–Liesl Pinkelman, Horses R Us 3rd–Kylah Crawford, Horse N Around 4th tie–Myla Junge, Cactus Kids, and Morgan Wiechman, Beaver Creek Boosters 5th–Jewel Aldrich, Horses R Us 6th tie–Amelia Sadowski, Horses R Us; Evelyn Souvenier, Beaver Creek Boosters; and Ella Schuessler-Recker, Horses R Us 7th–Ellery Rhodes, Sunset Saddlers 8th–Scott McKenzie Horses R Us 9th–Lauren Oestreich, Horses R Us 10th–Alyana Eisentrager, Hoof Beats Beef – Junior Division 1st–Beau Sautter, Simply Stock 2nd–Landry Gerwin, Beaver Creek Boosters 3rd–Chance Holley, Simply Stock 4th–Cassidy Wolf, Blue Ribbon Rangers 5th–Emil Stevenson, Lake Harvesters 6th–Hadyn Pickerel, Livestock Unlimited 7th–Joel Cordonnier, Duke’s Mixture 8th tie–Bristol McDowell, Banners and Beyond, and Mackenzie Wolf, Blue Ribbon Rangers 9th–Peyton Hale, Livestock Unlimited 10th–Ella Beach, Livestock Unlimited Beef – Senior Division 1st–Evelyn Souvenier, Beaver Creek Boosters 2nd–Sara Britton, Leaders of Tomorrow 3rd–Anna Ayers, Otsego-Penta FFA 4th–Ali Meek, Banners and Beyond 5th–Landon Seedorf, Livestock Unlimited 6th–Jocelyn Belleville, Simply Stock 7th–Gordon Ayers, Otsego-Penta FFA 8th–Morgan Wiechman, Beaver Creek Boosters 9th–Grace Miller, Duke’s Mixture 10th–Isaac Cordonnier, Otsego Penta FFA Dairy – Junior Division 1st–Mackenzie Wolf, Blue Ribbon Rangers 2nd–Alexis Casey, Country Paws 3rd–Landry Gerwin, Beaver Creek Boosters 4th–Emily Ernsthausen, Beaver Creek Boosters 5th–Cassidy Wolf, Blue Ribbon Rangers 6th–Audrey Begeman, Blue Ribbon Rangers 7th–Livy Emch, Dowling Stitch Stir and Stock 8th–Ava Seibert, Golden Key 9th–Kensley Oechsle, Portage Valley Dairy – Senior Division 1st–Evelyn Souvenier, Beaver Creek Boosters 2nd–Mackayla Casey, Country Paws 3rd–Nora Menzie, Farmcrafters 4th–Karlie Salyers, Elmwood FFA 5th–Morgan Wiechman, Beaver Creek Boosters 6th–Alexis Ault, Clover Kids 7th–Micaela Wiechman, Beaver Creek Boosters 8th–David Claydon, Eastwood FFA 9th–Dakota Blasius, Prime Cut Kids Goats – Junior Division 1st–Jessa Donaldson, Golden Key 2nd–Jaedyn Richards, Livestock Unlimited 3rd–Nora Cordonnier, Duke’s Mixture 4th tie–Lila McGrain, Tontogany Hotwires, and Adalida Culp, Duke’s Mixture 5th–Cassidy Wolf, Blue Ribbon Rangers 6th–Lainey Ernsthausen, Blue Ribbon Rangers 7th–Emily Ernsthausen, Blue Ribbon Rangers 8th–Maggie Bodey, Blue Ribbon Rangers 9th–Raelyn Schulte, Lake Harvesters 10th–Hazel Lafontaine, Country Paws Goats – Senior Division 1st–Evelyn Souvenier, Beaver Creek Boosters 2nd–Anna Ayers, Beaver Creek Boosters 3rd–Jocelyn Belleville, Simply Stock 4th–Avery Sautter, Simply Stock 5th–Ali Meek, Banners and Beyond 6th–Gordon Ayers, Beaver Creek Boosters 7th–Kathryn Shultz, Jackson Livestock 8th–Issac Cordonnier, Duke’s Mixture 9th–Abby English, Golden Key 10th–Morgan Wiechman, Beaver Creek Boosters Junior Fair member identifies parts of a turkey in poultry skillathon contest. Poultry – Junior Division 1st–Blake Mahlman, Leaders of Tomorrow 2nd–Cate Brossia, Lake Harvesters 3rd–Ellianna Bucklew, Country Paws 4th–Killian Frankart, Lake Harvesters 5th–Jillian Swartz, Beaver Creek Boosters 6th–June Thompson, Country Paws 7th–Allison Dickey, Beaver Creek Boosters 8th–Audrey Anderson, Banners and Beyond 9th–Calvin Corney, Clover Achievers 10th–George Henson, Duke’s Mixture Poultry – Senior Division 1st–Morgan Wiechman, Beaver Creek Boosters 2nd–Micaela Wiechman, Beaver Creek Boosters 3rd–Jenica Rollheiser, Portage Valley 4th–Grace Miller, Duke’s Mixture 5th–Abby English, Golden Key 6th–Kathryn Shultz, Jackson Livestock 7th–Travis Vollmar, Country Roots 8th–Brady Swartz, Otsego FFA 9th–Ava Ryan, Jackson Livestock 10th–Addison Corney, Clover Achievers Rabbits – Junior Division 1st–Nora Cordonnier, Duke’s Mixture 2nd–Karlee Schwab, Black Swamp Outlaws 3rd–Natalie Durham, Colorful Clovers 4th–Alyson Taylor, Portage Valley 5th–George Henson, Duke’s Mixture 6th–Mackenzie Wolf, Blue Ribbon Rangers 7th–Madi Herringshaw, Leaders of Tomorrow 8th–Paisley Long, Klassy Kids 9th–Amelia Siegler, Country Paws 10th–Jillian Swartz, Beaver Creek Boosters Rabbits – Senior Division 1st–Morgan Wiechman, Beaver Creek Boosters 2nd–Ryleigh Perry, Klassy Kids 3rd–Micaela Wiechman, Beaver Creek Boosters 4th–Savannah Shroyer, Wood N Horses 5th–Camryn Taylor, Portage Valley 6th–Brooklyn King, Duke’s Mixture 7th–Brady Swartz, Beaver Creek Boosters 8th–Brynlee Schwab, Black Swamp Outlaws 9th–Paxton Reynolds, Country Paws 10th–Evelyn Souvenier, Beaver Creek Boosters Sheep – Junior Division 1st–Adalida Culp, Duke’s Mixture 2nd–Chloe Moser, Blue Ribbon Rangers 3rd–Chance Holley, Simply Stock 4th–Reed Hanna, Leaders of Tomorrow 5th–Eleanor Bockbrader, Portage Valley 6th–Eloise Ward, Country Roots 7th–Gia Stickel, Simply Stock 8th–Bentley Richards, Livestock Unlimited 9th–Parker Hanna, Leaders of Tomorrow 10th–Thomas Bockbrader, Portage Valley Sheep – Senior Division 1st–Claire Lampe, Simply Stock 2nd tie – Gavin Richards, Livestock Unlimited, and Ali Meek, Banners and Beyond 3rd–Morgan Wiechman, Beaver Creek Boosters 4th–Micaela Wiechman, Beaver Creek Boosters 5th–Evelyn Souvenier, Beaver Creek Boosters 6th–David Claydon, Portage Valley 7th–Aidan Thomas, Livestock Unlimited 8th–Josh Bingham, Simply Stock 9th–Kate Conway, BG FFA 10th–Adalynda Doyle, Country Roots Country Roots 4-H adviser Katie Ward (l-r) and member Chloe Vollmar promote the Show Swag Swap during the Livestock Interview and Skillathon judging. The club has hosted the swap for four years, donating proceeds to area nonprofits. Swine – Junior Division 1st–Brooks Muir, Blue Ribbon Rangers 2nd–Easton Muir, Blue Ribbon Rangers 3rd–Chloe Moser, Blue Ribbon Rangers 4th–Bristol McDowell, Banners and Beyond 5th tie – Maddix Fisher, Livestock Unlimited, and Alexis Casey, Country Paws 6th–Ainsley Getz, Simply Stock 7th–Mckenzie Huss, Livestock Unlimited 8th–Ezdon Vetter, Beaver Creek Boosters 9th–Kelcie Kellermeier, Blue Ribbon Rangers 10th–Joanie Vetter, Beaver Creek Boosters Swine – Senior Division 1st tie – Claire Lampe, Simply Stock, and Kamryn Sundermeier, Blue Ribbon Rangers 2nd–Morgan Wiechman, Beaver Creek Boosters 3rd–Shipley Morlock, Livestock Unlimited 4th–Anna Ayers, Beaver Creek Boosters 5th–Kyleigh Baltz, Klassy Kids 6th–Mara Bankey, Country Paws 7th–Ali Meek, Banners and Beyond 8th–Mackayla Casey, Country Paws 9th–Micaela Wiechman, Beaver Creek Boosters 10th–Alexis Ault, Clover Kids