SEPTEMBER 2017 • COUNTRY LIFE IN BC FV, North OK dairies win at Chilliwack Fair


Well-uddered Grindrod cow named supreme champion by DAVID SCHMIDT


CHILLIWACK – If you’re going to come all the way to Chilliwack from the North Okanagan to show just one animal, it had better be a good one. Jennifer Veldhuisen of


J-View Farms in Grindrod made the right call, bringing her prize five-year-old cow, Preview Dempsey Royalty, to the Chilliwack Fair Open Dairy Show, August 12. And a prize it was, as judge Mark Van Mersbergen made the well-uddered Holstein the show’s supreme champion. The 2017 show was held in


memory of Charlie Thomson and exhibitors turned out in force to honour the prominent Chilliwack Holstein and Jersey breeder who passed away unexpectedly last December. Thomson, an unabashed promoter of the dairy show, had been a member of the Chilliwack Fair board for 40 years, including four as president.


The dedication to Thomson renewed the interest of both exhibitors and spectators. Van Mersbergen sorted through 85 animals in the Holstein show and another 22 in the concurrent Jersey show, a huge increase from the 56 Holsteins and six Jerseys which competed in 2016. The support came from a multitude of exhibitors, with seven exhibitors contesting the junior Holstein breeders herd category, which requires


each breeder to bring out three animals shown in the individual classes.


That class turned out to be


a showdown between two of Chilliwack’s premier show strings: Westcoast Holsteins and Elmbridge Farms. Although Westcoast Holsteins won that duel, Elmbridge took home more of the championships, with Nicole Tuytel showing the intermediate Holstein championship (Elmbridge Loveshack Extra), the reserve senior and reserve grand champion Holstein and reserve supreme champion (BVK Casino Adeen Ada) and the junior champion Jersey (Elmcrest Tequila Munchkin). Together with their other placings, Elmbridge was an easy winner of the show’s premier breeder award.


Premier exhibitor


Westcoast’s Kooyman family showed the junior champion Holstein (Westcoast Avalanche Lampton) and the reserve intermediate champion Holstein (Wendon Doorman Celia). They also placed well enough in other classes to earn the show’s premier exhibitor award.


The final championship ribbon in the Holstein classes went to Cedarwal Farms of Abbotsford, which earned the reserve junior championship with their intermediate yearling, Cedarwal Doorman Cotton Candy.


Alexis DeJong of Rosegate


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There were smiles all around after judge Mark Van Mersbergen of Lynden, Washington made these two outstanding cows the senior and grand champion Holsteins and named the supreme champions of the Chilliwack Fair Dairy Show, August 12. The reserve champion, BVK Casino Adeen Ada, was shown by Nicole Tuytel of Elmbridge Farms in Chilliwack while Jennifer Veldhuisen of J-View Farms in Grindrod showed the supreme champion, Preview Dempsey Royalty. Holding the championship ribbon is BC Holstein princess Julianna Antonsen. DAVID SCHMIDT PHOTO


Dairy Farms in Abbotsford earned the top awards in the Jersey show, as Van Mersbergen named four- year-old Avonlea Guapo Kylie as the senior and grand champion Jersey. Both reserve


championships in the Jersey classes went to Michael Haambuckers of Sunny Hill Jerseys in Enderby. Triple S Penelope Gator was chosen as the reserve senior and reserve grand champion while Sunny Hill Joel Appletini was named the reserve junior champion.


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