2013 Pincher Creek and District 4-H Swine Achievement Show and Sale results

Pincher Creek Multi Club and Rocky Mountain Swine Club
C. Davis and T. Lucas photos

Toni Lucas with Chris Davis, Pincher Creek Voice.

The Pincher Creek and District 4-H Swine Achievement Show and Sale was held on Monday, June 3, 2013.  Two clubs including 17 4-H members participated.  The Rocky Mountain 4-H Swine Club had 7 members sporting bright red shirts and Pincher Creek Chinook Multi 4-H Club had 10 members in their distinctive burgundy shirts.  During the show banners were awarded to Interclub Grand Champion Bruce Kirby, Interclub Reserve Champion Taylor Deley, Swine Club Grand Champion Alyssa Barbero and Swine Club Reserve Champion Levi Anderson.


"I have done a lot of judging before, this was the first time I judged in Pincher Creek," said Show Judge Andrew Beusekom of Magnum Swine Genetics Inc. Fort Macleod.  "It was a pleasure to do it, this was a good group of kids.  Even those that didn't win are happy and gracious."

Judge Andrew Beusekom gives gifts to the 4-H members

Beusekom said that much of the criteria he used for judging the swine were market traits that would maximize sales values.

After the show the 4-H members were allowed to relax, visit and have fun until after the free dinner offered to participants and the crowd that featured some beautifully roasted pork, preceded by grace, which was a 4-H ditty sung to the tune of Auld Lang Syne: "We thank thee, Lord, for blessings great on this, our own fair land.  Teach us to serve thee joyfully, with head, heart, health and hand."

Alyssa Barbero sings O Canada

Once many of the buyers started to arrive the club members stayed near the project pens to answer questions anyone might have.  Then it was time for the sale.  Alyssa Barbero led the crowd in the singing of 'O Canada' and the bidding began.

Frank Jenkins from Southern Alberta Livestock Exchange ran the auction with his usual speed and efficiency.  According to the Alberta Pork website the average market price of a Canadian hog live weight in early May was $0.90/lb. Two pigs that were bought by Shell Waterton were donated back to the clubs and resold, adding to the coffers of the clubs.  One pig was sold three times, earning a whopping $9.60/lb.

A number of cooked pork roasts were also sold at the end of the auction for the benefit of the clubs.

Interclub Grand Champion Bruce Kirby with Eric Bruder

Interclub Grand Champion Bruce Kirby
Pincher Creek Chinook Multi 4-H Club
Intermediate Division, Rankings: Market Hog 1, Showmanship 2, Grooming 3
Bruce Kirby is in grade 8 and has been in 4-H for 5 years.  He won Interclub Grand Champion with his pig Ryan. "I feel thrilled and excited," he said.  "This is my last year of 4H Swine Club, and what a great way to end it."

• 286lbs, sold for $3.30/lb, bought by Eric Bruder.

Interclub Reserve Champion Taylor Deley (right) with Val Carlson and Donna Lee Smith

Interclub Reserve Champion Taylor Deley 
Pincher Creek Chinook Multi 4H Club Division
Junior Division, Rankings: Market Hog 2, Showmanship 1
Taylor Deley won Interclub Reserve Champion with  'Norm'.  She's in her third year of 4-H. "Last year I got Reserve Champion," she said. I kept thinking 'I don't know if I'll get it this year'.  When they announced my name, I was shocked."

• 278lbs, sold for $2.90/lb, bought by Donna Lee Smith and Val Carlson.

Alyssa Barnero with M.J.

Club Grand Champion Alyssa Barbero 
Rocky Mountain 4-H Swine Club
Senior Division, Rankings: Market Hog 1, Showmanship 2, Grooming 1
Alyssa Barbero won Swine Club Grand Champion with pig MJ, who also had the prettiest pedicure of the evening.  "I'm really happy, this is my second champion,"  said Barbero.  This is her 9th year in the Rocky Mountain Swine Club.

• 278lbs, sold for $4.10/lb, bought by Benchmark Angus.

Levi Anderson (right) with Co-op's Allan Kaupp and David Crowell

Club Reserve Champion Levi Anderson
Rocky Mountain 4-H Swine Club
Intermediate Division, Rankings: Market Hog 1, Showmanship 2, Grooming 2
Levi Anderson is in his 5th year in 4-H, having participated in various clubs.  His pig Boss Hog was the Swine Club Reserve Grand Champion.   "I really appreciate all the sponsors, the one that will buy Boss Hog, (Pincher Creek Co-op) and McClelland Meat Processors that sponsored my banner," he said, showing a keen sense of the business angle of things.  "I got Reserve Champion, and that made my day so much better."

• 278 lbs, sold for $2.60/lb, bought by Pincher Creek Co-op.

Ashley Higgenbotham with Alyssa Barbero

Ashley Higginbotham Club President
Pincher Creek Chinook Multi 4-H Club
Senior Division, Rankings: Market Hog 2, Showmanship 1, Grooming 1

• 238lbs $3.00/lb, bought by Roy and Kathy Simon.

Chaz Vance

Chaz Vance 
Rocky Mountain 4-H Swine Club
Intermediate Division, Rankings: Market Hog 3, Showmanship 3, Grooming 1

• 276lbs, $2.70/lb, bought by Instyle Salon.

Tyler Higgenbotham

Tyler Higginbotham 
Pincher Creek Chinook Multi 4-H Club
Intermediate Division, Rankings: Market Hog 1, Showmanship 2, Grooming 2
5 years in 4-H

• 244lbs, $2.85/lb, bought by Hedderick Insurance.

Jillana Hammond

Jillanna Hammond 
Pincher Creek Chinook Multi 4-H Club
Intermediate Division, Rankings: Market Hog 3, Showmanship 1, Grooming 2

• 240lbs, $2.85/lb, bought by Gross and Company, Calgary.

Blair Goodreau

Blair Goodreau 
Rocky Mountain 4-H Swine Club
Senior Division, Rankings: Market Hog 2, Showmanship 1, Grooming 2
Grade 11, 7 years in 4-H

286lbs, $3.60/lb, bought by Shell Waterton Complex and donated back
Re-sold for $3.05 bought by Grassy Butte  and donated back
Re-sold for $2.95/lb bought by Earl and Gloria Higginbotham

• Total price with two resales: $9.60/lb!

Ryan Higgenbotham

Ryan Higginbotham 
Pincher Creek Chinook Multi 4-H Club
Intermediate Division, Rankings: Market Hog 2, Showmanship 3, Grooming 1
5 years in 4-H

• 258lbs, $3.25/lb, bought by Pincher Creek Co-op.

Tyson Goodreau 
Rocky Mountain 4-H Swine Club
Intermediate Division, Rankings: Market Hog  2, Showmanship 1, Grooming 3
Grade 8, 5 years in 4-H

• 276lbs, $2.85/lb, bought by Keith Foster - Westcastle Motors.

Sarah Kirby

Sarah Kirby 
Pincher Creek Chinook Multi 4-H Club
Junior Division, Rankings: Market Hog 1, Grooming 1
Grade 6, in 4-H for 3 years

272lbs, sold for $3.55/lb, bought by Shell Waterton Complex and donated back.
Resold for $3.30/lb bought by Service Equipment/Sunlife.

• Total price with one resale: $6.85/lb.

Lewis Anderson

Lewis Anderson 
Rocky Mountain 4-H Swine Club
Junior Division, Rankings: Market Hog 2, Showmanship 1, Grooming 1
Pig 'Badger', Grade 6, 3 years in 4-H

• 298lbs, $3.50/lb, bought by Top Hand Industrial.

Cadence Sinnott

Cadence Sinnott 
Pincher Creek Chinook Multi 4-H Club
Junior Division, Rankings: Market Hog 4
1 year in 4-H,

• 268lbs, $3.50/lb, bought by Deley Industries.

Nelz Vance 
Rocky Mountain 4-H Swine Club
Junior Division, Rankings: Market Hog 1, Showmanship 2, Grooming 2
Grade 5, 2nd year in 4-H

• 280lbs, $3.10lb, bought by Sinnott Farm Services.

Jaxon Hammond

Jaxon Hammond 
Pincher Creek Chinook Multi 4-H Club
Junior Division, Rankings: Market Hog 5, Showmanship 2
Pig 'Baconator'

• 212lbs, $4.60/lb, bought by Collar Tire, Ft. MacLeod.

Brooke Hammond 
Pincher Creek Chinook Multi 4-H Club
Junior Division, Rankings: Market Hog 3, Grooming 2
Grade 5

• 256lbs, $4.10/lb, bought by M & H Feedlot.

A hard working cowboy

Pincher Creek Chinook Multi 4-H Club
General Club Leader Brad Bustard
Market Hog Project Leader: Suzanne Kirby
Assistant Leader: Jeff Hammond

Rocky Mountain 4-H Swine Club
General Leader: Gloria Barbero
Assistant Leader:  Sheila Goodreau

Todd and Chaz "The Tenderizer" Vance