2008 Oregon Flock & Fiber Festival (OFFF)

 

We are already planning for the 2008 Flock & Fiber Festival ALSA Llama Show.  The dates are the 27th and 28th of September.  The following weekend is the Western Regional Show in Albany, OR.

July NEWS!

• Lavona Fercho will be judging our show and I'm very glad to have this detail taken care of early - Thanks Lavona!
• I am planning on having a "walking fleece" class.  Double checking the animal is in the correct fleece class (single and double for some fleeces is a real challenge!) may occur Saturday evening (after performance) and formal judging will be on Sunday.
• The halter classes will be on Sunday.
• We will have Classic classes on Sunday with the other halter classes
• We will have both driving classes again, so get in your ground driving lessons and get that llama into the cart!  Driving and the other performance classes will be on Saturday.

2008 OFFF Llama Show forms are here.  The .PDF is under 100KB so even dial-up customers (like me :) should be able to download them without too much trouble.  Please e-mail Hal if you have any trouble with the download or questions about the OFFF ALSA Llama Show.  Thanks and we hope to see you in September!

• 2008 OFFF ALSA show packet 
• If you wish to enter Walking Fleece, please download the Walking Fleece Entry Form as well
• Additional information about Preparing a Fleece and Preparing a Suri Fleece for show

2007 WRAP-UP:  The 11th edition of the Oregon Flock & Fiber Festival, commonly known as OFFF, was held September 21st through 23rd at the Clackamas County Fair Grounds in Canby, Oregon.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For the ALSA llama show, Saturday was performance day including driving classes!  Sunday was halter day and we again had dedicated suri classes - which were quite full!  Gayle Woodsum from Laramie, Wyoming was our judge this year and she was assisted by and instructed Terry Spekreijse from New Zealand who was our apprentice.  Gayle - Thanks for your ready smile and laughter, it makes the show so much more pleasant, and Terry - thanks for speaking slow enough that we could understand you!

 

 

                                          

From my perspective, the show went well and I hope everyone had a good time.  I will be putting together a short list of champions for this page, (I have pasted in some pictures), but two are easy.  First, congratulations to Rick and Mary Adams (Wild Oak Llamas, Grass Valley, CA) and their llama "Anastasia" (not her full name - pictured top right).  Anastasia was the Heavy Wool Female Grand Champion and also the OFFF Diamond Best of Show Llama! 

The second big award was llamas capturing a second Diamond Award!  In the raw fiber/fleece competition for all species and breeds, our own llama, Chocolate Creme Puff ("Coco"), produced the fleece selected as the OFFF Diamond Best of Show Fleece.  Yahoo!!! - it is so cool when other fiber folks recognize how nice llama fiber is!

Other winners pictured above are a suri llama from Dan and Marilyn Milton, Highland Llamas (top left), a winner from Bob and Marilyn Wynia, Sijama Llamas (middle left), Mary Adams with the Champion Gelding (middle right), Koenig's Wool-N-Fir Farm "Rosario" (bottom right), and Terry and Kathy Ross' winner "Wicked," Black Tie Llamas (bottom left)

Llamas were the featured animal at OFFF this year.  We had a GREAT display that Dan and Marilyn Milton (Highland Llamas, Jacksonville, OR) provided.  The display included llama roving, skeins of wool, beautiful llama wool garments and a "Llamas 101" slide show that ran throughout the weekend. Let me provide a big "Thank You" from the llama community to Dan and Marilyn for putting this together - you have "done us proud."

Thanks to all of our llama friends who were able to attend the 2007 show.  First, a HUGE THANK YOU to Brandy Chastain the Festival Manager who pulls this all together with a staff of volunteers and has included an ALSA llama show as part of the weekend.  Another THANK YOU to our Championship sponsors, class sponsors and all of this year's volunteers (listed below) - from the ring stewards, gate keepers, announcers, "check-in" crew, entry and catalog proof-readers, poop scoopers, obstacle re-arrangers, obstacle design (Thanks Joanne and Julie!), and my *heros* the crew that took apart and made stacks of panels Sunday afternoon (I had nightmares about carrying the last panel out of the barn by myself at 11pm and not being able to get it into the trailer :-(  The show ran as well as it did because of all the volunteer help!

Thanks for everyone's help!

      Hal

 

 ** I hope I did not miss anyone - I certainly appreciate your help!

Here is the 2007 OFFF Honor Roll!

2007 Championship Sponsors

Bill & Jeanie Fogle, Vaughn Fogle Farm, Veneta, OR

Rick & Mary Adams, Wild Oak Llamas, Grass Valley, CA

Oregon Flock & Fiber Festival for the Diamond BEST of SHOW Award

 

2007 Class Sponsors

Dan & Marilyn Milton, Highland Llamas, Jacksonville, OR (twice!)

Beth Schultz, Logie Trail Llamas, Hillsboro, OR (twice!)

Julie & Hal Koenig, Koenig’s Wool-N-Fir Farm, Corvallis, OR

Sean and Dr. Michelle Kutzler, Spit Happens Ranch, Philomath, OR

Sandy Raley, Rock’n R Llamas, Vancouver, WA

Kathy & Terry Ross, Black Tie Llamas, Ft. Jones, CA

Randy & Dianne Sanders, R+D Ranch, Gold Hill, OR

 

          2007 Volunteers

                 Shawn Bussey-Stolk         Cody Becker

                 Deanna Duncan                  Bill Fogle

                 Debby Gremmels               John Gremmels

                 Dale Lysne                           Heather Koenig (my own "energizer bunny" :-)

                 Dan Milton                           Glen Pfefferkorn

                 Joanne Shook                     Morris Wendorf

                 Marianne Moore                 Chris Koenig

                 Debbie Simpson                 Julie Koenig

                 Terry Ross                           Bob Wynia

                 and many others that stepped forward to help with all the details, including the members of the Lucky Longneck Llama 4-H Club.

  

Special Thanks to: Gayle Woodsum, ALSA judge, and Terry Spekreijse, apprentice judge, for judging our 2007 show and our performance crew - Joanne Shook for designing pack and obstacle classes and hauling the "parts" from Bend, and Julie Koenig for designing the public relations classes.

And one more Thank You to Dan and Marilyn Milton for the great display to recognize llamas as the featured animal this year!