On Thursday evening Amanda and Quinn went to set up at the 2025 Windham 4-H Fair. Quinn is now aged out of 4-H but still stays involved and helping out.
Friday afternoon Amanda and Quinn drove the goats over to the fair and checked them in. Amanda brought 6 goats. Amanda was also the super intendant for the goat show this year.

Amanda stayed at the fairgrounds in a tent next to the goat barn and her leader Bailey’s camper.
Saturday morning brought the goat show. Amanda had asked Melissa Ferguson, a 4-H leader in Hartford County and fellow goat breeder at White Birch Acres to be the judge for the goat show. The goat program in Windham County is very small and most of the goats at the fair were ours. Amanda was the single senior goat showman, and as such won her class. Carolina was best senior doe in show and Kipu, our recorded grade yearling, was best junior doe in show. The goat show concluded with a crash course in goat showmanship lead by Melissa, sharing most of our goats with other 4-Hers learning about goats and how to show them.






Saturday afternoon brought horse showmanship in hand. There are not enough horse kids in Windham county to warrant a full blown horse show (nor are there funds for the insurance required),but there was a small in hand horse show and Amanda brought Mojo to participate. He did great, except in the last class when he spooked or got too excited and tore away from Amanda. We think he may have gotten stung by something, there were ground wasps around. Amanda earned a reserve showman in horses.




Saturday afternoon after the horse show Amanda tried foxhunting with the amateur radio group that had set up the activity at the fair. She also participated in the obstacle course and the Battle of the Barns.

Sunday morning brought Premier showmanship. Amanda earned a spot due to being the Goat senior showman. Premier is a competition where all of the species showmen show ALL of the species. So there were 7 kids showing dairy cows, beef cows, rabbits, goats, sheep, working steer and horses. The best overall showman wins premier showmanship.
Amanda did her best, but had some challenging animals in a few of the events. Overall, she had fun and it was a good experience.








Sunday afternoon brought the Award Ceremony. Amanda found out that she had won Premier! She was so excited, but had not expected it with having a few more challenging animals to deal with. Overall, it was a fun, good time, tiring, and exhausting weekend.

