Devon Support Group                

Our Tent / Stand

The Devon County show this year was a real success. The weather was great and the crowds came in numbers, with lots coming to our stand. We would like to thank the Dartington branch of Cornwall Farmers, and Exeter Livestock Centre for their kind sponsor ship towards the cost of the tent. We had a bigger one this year, which was fantastic .

We did well

People, young and old, came to the stand and discussed their interests, signed up, told us what they were looking for, or just bought some of our great stuff on sale. We were delighted to sell a lot of the merchandise. This money goes to the RBST HQ for the many worthy causes e.g. collecting semen of rare breeds, DNA sampling, or lobbying parliament on some important issue

We also ran a popular daily 'guess the weight' competition The animal is different each day. This year included a whopping great pig and a feisty turkey.

Berkshire sow	Feisty Turkey - who bit Richard while he took photographs - no blood but pride hurt

The money for this is used to pay for the marquee at the 2008 County Show. Lucky winners got 25% of the cash taken on the day!!

Rare breed entries

There were good number of animals entered in the various rare breed categories. Here we see a few from the primitive rare breed sheep section

Primitive ram category	Supreme Champion - primitive rare breeds - a 14 month shearling ewe

Next Shows

Do not forget to come along and visit us at the other shows during the summer. Or, better still, come along and help, or even show animals - it is not hard and is a lot of fun