FFA had many students make it to the auction at the Humble Livestock Show. FFA advisor Genevieve Ubnoskye was proud of the work her students put in this year.
“What we show is referred to as market animals, their intention is for meat purposes,” Ubnoskye said. “So when a judge is judging a market animal, they look for several things – one being structure, like do they have good legs? And feet, like nothing crooked or splayed out. The next thing they look at is the amount of muscling that they have, and they can tell that by visually looking at them and touching them.”
This past year, junior Brayan Skero won the Grand Champion title for his steer. He made sale for his steer, netting $27,000. In preparation for the livestock show, Skero spent multiple hours in the barn taking care of his steer and went to Jackpot Shows almost every weekend.
“I have had about 10 pigs and three steers so far,” Skero said. “My goal, initially, whenever I got my steer was just to make sales, which is kinda everyone’s goal. But as we got closer and the progress show came and I won grand at the progress show, I just knew I had my mind on winning at the actual show.”
When judging a livestock show there are multiple groups of livestock that get paired together in the same weight class.
“If there are 10 animals within the same class that are ranked from first to last,” Ubnoskye said. “We only take the top 10 overall of the other animals that show up.”
In order to place everyone who shows correctly, they take all of the first places that are in their livestock group.
“In pigs we had 12 classes, we had around 90 pigs,” Ubnoskye said. “So we take all the first places and determine who wins grand champion, then reserve, 3rd place and so on and so forth.”
Sophomore Sophia MItchell finished in 8th place with her lamb at this year’s show.
“The funniest moments were spending time with the people at the barn, bonding with my animal and when he dragged me on the floor,” Mitchell said. “The most rewarding moment was when I made auction after putting in all the hard work into him.”
After judging the livestock in FFA, the judges move on to the poultry. Turkeys and chickens are judged based on how large their breasts and legs are.
During the week of the show, students also participated in the FFA Unified Show.
“We did really well at the unified show, so I was really proud of them and how awesome they did,” Ubnoskye said.
Humble Rodeo results
Grand Champion Steer – Brayan Skero
Reserve Champion Steer – Landon Adkins
Reserve Champion Pig – Peyton Henderson
Reserve Champion Turkey – Bailey Hornback
Reserve Champion Rabbits – Makenzie Peterson
3rd place Goat – Reese Ivy
3rd Place Broilers – Cameron Spangler
3rd Place Rabbits – Breanna Muller
4th Place Broilers – Mason Staggs
4th Place Rabbits – Zachary Heffernan
5th Place Broilers – Bella Shotts
6th Place Steer – Katelynn Stewart
6th Place Goat – Ashlyn Stadelbacher
7th Place Goat – Jackson Talley
7th Place Rabbits – Delaney Mermis
8th Place Lamb – Sophia Mitchell
8th Place Goat – Allison Talley
9th Place Lamb – Ava Johnston
10th Place Goat – Adyson Robbins
10th Place Rabbits – Tyler Pavlicek
