Champions
Congratulations to Sara Johnson for showing this Knop lamb to 3rd place behind the Res. Grand Champion Overall [Res. Hampshire] at the 2011 American Royal. This lamb sold as Lot 16 in our 1st Knop Online Club Lamb Sale. He was sired by Wheaton 18 (Untouchable) out of a Step Ahead (Knop 5266) daughter. We will offer many show prospects in 2012 sired by Catalyst (Wheaton 0-126 ET), a son of Untouchable damned by Wheaton 0393, the famous Cabaniss Stroker-bred flush female. Click photos to enlarge.
Examples of our Impact 920 (Money Maker) wethers shown in Louisville 2011 by Alyssa Hietschmidt.
Their ewe lamb contemporaries are bred to Impact 083 (Young Jock/Livewire) and Excel (Exile/True Blood) for 2012. Click photos to enlarge.
2009 Champions:
Congratulations to the Adam and Megan Lawing, N.C. for an outstanding 2009 show season. Some of their champions include:
2009 N.C. State Fair:
- Grand Champion Commercial Ewe
- Supreme Grand Champion Ewe Overall
- The above female was purchased from The Fred Knop Family (Knop 1461) and shown by Megan Lawing.
- Grand Champion Born and Bred Market Lamb
- Reserve Grand Champion Market Lamb
- Res. Grand Champion Born and Bred Market Lamb
- The lambs listed above were all sired by Knop-bred rams.
2009 Mountain State Fair
- *Res. Grand Champion Market Lamb
- *Sired by a Knop-bred ram.
Congratulations to Roger Davidson, Ohio for an outstanding consignment to the 2009 Ohio Suffolk Show and Sale
- 1st place and 3rd place March ewe lambs.
- 1st place Feb. ram lamb
- Res. Crossbred female
- All the above lambs were Knop-bred genetics raised by Roger and placed by George Buckman.
Grand Champion Market Lamb—2009 Mills County, Iowa
- Congratulations Shelby Letuli for a super win with your Knop-bred wether!
Click on the photo(s) for an enlarged version plus individual genetics
weston hill, ok
lane daniel, ok
lawing family, nc
beck family, oh
sell family, ia
lauren wilson, ia
Congratulations to the following Knop lamb exhibitors:
- Jamie Banbury, Ohio, for exhibiting her Goose sired wether to high honors.
- Kayla Lee, Kansas, for her 2nd place premium sale lamb, 2007 Denver.
- Kashen Urban, Oklahoma, for his class winner at the 2006 American Royal.
- Logan Daniel, Oklahoma, for the Champion Suffolk at the Hobart Jackpot and the Reserve Suffolk at the Coalgate Jackpot.
- Jade Terbush, Oklahoma, for his Champion Cross and Reserve Grand Champion at the local Navajo show.
- Adam and Megan Lawing, North Carolina, for their numerous champions in 2006.
- Bonnie McCauley, New Mexico, 2nd place 140# Premium sale lamb, 2007 Arizona National.
