Retlaw 4-H members celebrate Achievement Day in mid-May

By Dorthea Mills
For the Vauxhall Advance

Members from the Retlaw Prairie 4-H Beef Club held their Achievement Day on May 15, 2021 at the Vauxhall Ag Society Rodeo Grounds. 

Members in the Beef and Sheep projects had a great day showing off all their hard work that they had put into their projects. 

Fortunately, the weather cooperated and we were able to enjoy an outdoor show. 

Jay Good from the Cactus Country 4-H District was both our Showmanship Judge and our Quality Judge for the day. Thank you to Jay Good for spending the day with us.

The results are as follows.

Sheep Projects:

Group A Market Lambs

First Place Quality- Marie Wetherelt

Second Place Quality- Josh Tolsma

First Place Showmanship- Marie Wetherelt

Second Place Showmanship- Josh Tolsma

Group B Market Lambs

First Place Quality- 

Emery Wetherelt

Second Place Quality- Shay Wilms

First Place Showmanship – Emery Wetherelt

Second Place Showmanship- Shay Wilms

Group C Market Lambs

First Place Quality- Ashlyn van der Hoek

Second Place Quality- Austin Odland

First Place Showmanship- Savanna Wiggill

Second Place Showmanship- Austin Odland

Grand Champion Market Lamb- Marie Wetherelt

Reserve Champion Market Lamb- Emery Wetherelt

Grand Champion Showmanship – Emery Wetherelt

Reserve Grand Champion showmanship- Marie Wetherelt

Group A Market Steers

First Place Quality- Torynn Plumb                                                      

Second Place Quality – Christopher Mills

First Place Showmanship – Torynn Plumb

Second Place Showmanship- Sutten Emelson

Group B Market Steers

First Place Quality- Marie Wetherelt

Second Place Quality- Berkley Emelson

First Place Showmanship- Chelsey Mills

Second Place Showmanship- Chase Plumb

Grand Champion Market steer- Torynn Plumb

Reserve Champion Market steer- Marie Wetherelt

Grand Champion Showmanship- Chelsey Mills

Reserve Grand Champion Showmanship- Torynn Plumb

Sheep Female Breeding Projects

Ewe Lamb First Place- Shay Wilms

Ewe Lamb Second  Place – Marie Wetherelt

Yearling Ewe First Place- Marie Wetherelt

Yearling Ewe Second Place- Shay Wilms

Beef Female Breeding Projects

Heifer First Place- Torynn Plumb

Heifer Second Place- Marie Wetherelt

Two Year Cow/Calf- Torynn Plumb

Three Year Old Cow/Calf First Place- Marie Wetherelt

Three Year Old Cow/Calf Second Place- Chase Plumb

Our winners in all the quality classes will be dropped off to be judged for Districts on May 25, 2021 so that we can get our District Quality Champions.

Our project animals will be up for sale on http://www.dlms.ca on May 28, 2021. 

Buyers can log into dlms.ca and scroll down to the Taber & District 4-H Sale and place your bids from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. 

We thank all our past buyers and our buyers for this year for all your support. 

For now our Small Engines Project and our Horse Project are on hold right now because 4-H Alberta has paused all in-person project meetings due to COVID. 

Hopefully we will be able to go again soon and our members in these projects will be able to finish out the year on a high note.

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