Today we did our cadet judge exams. First we had a written examination. That was a lot of questions and lots of “oh damn … I knew the answer to that”. We had to achieve a score of 80% on the written exam, so we’ll have to wait to see how we went.
Next we went on to practical judging. Most of us brought goats and some other people in the dairy goat society kindly brought some more goats along for us to give us a wide range of animals to get out hands on.
It was all about chins, chines, lines and loins, girth and thurls, hips and other goat parts. I think that, overall, we all did very well with the help and mentorship of the senior judges that ran the course.
Now all we need to do is to get some practical experience with judging in the show ring. Hopefully, we will get some good help and knowledge from actual hands on.
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