A Prize and a Price
Read MoreStalling until dinner
Mikaela, Fresco, and Sanchez mill around in their pen as Mikaela prepares to feed the two. Keeping two lambs together helps them grow better because they keep each other calm and compete with each other for their food. They will eventually need to be separated at feeding time because one of the lambs typically becomes too dominant and crowds out the other.
Gnawing on eighth
Travis Stufflet, 10, lets his goat King Tut nibble on their 8th-place ribbon as they stand in the ring after being judged. Because only the winner and a few runners-up go to auction later in the week, Travis will have to give up King Tut immediately after leaving the arena to be sold at the market rate for goat meat.
Awaiting judgment
Mikaela and her friend Hunter Clay prep their lambs and practice their stance in the arena early on the morning of the judging. In several hours, the arena would fill and hundreds of lambs would file in, be judged, and advance either to auction later in the week or to immediate sale.