Hartlee Battey parades a steer around the ring during the 2022 Floyd County Stock Show on Jan. 13. (Alex Driggars/Floyd County Record)
MUNCY — Thursday night kicked off the 2022 Floyd County Junior Livestock Show, and dozens of exhibitors showed off their prized heifers, steers and rabbits.
The evening got rolling with the diary show first. Brinley Lefevre and Carisa Fernandez swept the dairy show, with Lefevre’s intermediate dairy heifer taking breed champion and grand champion honors. Fernandez’s senior bovine was selected as the senior breed champion and reserve grand champion. Gabriella Cervantes won junior dairy breed champion.
Fernandez also won senior showmanship honors, and Aubrianna Martinez took the junior showmanship prize.
Following dairy were nine classes of beef heifers. Braxton Cole left the arena as the Angus breed champion went home with the grand champion buckle. Brailey Kidd won breed champion and reserve grand champion honors with her Simmental heifers.
In Herefords, Jaxson Smith won breed and reserve breed champion. Hartlee Battey was breed champion for Beefmaster and Parker Kellison for Charolais. Avery McInvale took reserve breed champion for her Simmental and was the breed champion in the All Other Breeds (AOB) category. Parker Kellison’s heifer was named AOB reserve breed champion.
The steer show was next, and Parker Kellison went home with some hardware as the grand champion with her breed-champion Non-Black Cross. The other of Kellison’s Non-Black Crosses was named reserve breed champion.
Kason Hughes’ Hereford steer won breed champion, and David Sanchez won breed champion with his Red Cross. Reynatisha Sanchez’s Red Cross was the reserve breed champion.
Hartlee Battey won the buckle for junior showmanship in beef and Avery McInvale for senior showmanship.
Thursday’s activities wrapped up with the rabbit show. John Taylor Snowden came home with the grand champion buckle and Hagen Lefvre’s rabbit won reserve grand champion. John Taylor Snowden also won the junior showmanship prize, and his big sister Mia Snowden won the senior showmanship award.
The Floyd County Stock Show continues on Saturday at 8 a.m. with gilts and barrows, followed by goats, then lambs. The buyer’s meal takes place around 5 o’clock that evening with the sale at 6.
Correction: A previous version of this story incorrectly identified Carisa Fernandez and Aubrianna Martinez. This has been resolved and the Record regrets the error.
