More photo highlights from the 2012 fair

(Left) Not all fun and games – Highland’s Tabby Borsett and Allie Sawyer of Marengo clean up in the poul­try barn. They were show­ing turkeys at the fair. (Right) The Hamil­ton fam­ily has a pic­nic in the sheep barn Thurs­day. From top, Kage, 2 1/2 with mother Lora, Cadie, 6, Han­nah, 11 and Jacob, 9, who was show­ing Hamp­shire and Shrop­shire mar­ket lambs.

(Left) Robert Tim­mons, Jr. poses with his reg­is­tered Bel­gian filly, who took first place Grand Cham­pion and Reserve Cham­pion. (Right) Suc­cess! Gilead Chris­t­ian eight grader Austin Yake snagged a blue rib­bon with 5-month-old ‘Troy.’

(Left) North­mor fresh­man Whit­ney Layne, left, and her sis­ter, junior Kelsey Por­retta, of Triple R Bar, wash down “Jazzy” before her show­ing Thurs­day. (Right) High­land Mid­dle School stu­dent Austyn Albanese checks on his broil­ers as his mother, Kendra, watches.

(Left) Five-year-old Megan Beck of Mt. Gilead holds a 3-week-old pigmy goat as she watches goat show­man­ship Thurs­day. She is the daugh­ter of Doug and Lisa Beck. (Right) Con­nor Alaura, left, and Justin Evans, both of Hig­h­and, hold Justin’s Cal­i­forn­ian rab­bits Thurs­day afternoon.

(Left) Manny Heil­man, 12, tends to one of his six-month-old mar­ket goats in the goat barn. This is Manny’s fourth year in 4-H. (Right) High­land Mid­dle School stu­dent Chloe Bar­ton, left, is the 2012 Sheep Queen. Gilead Twp.’s Claire Nichol­son, cen­ter, is Sheep Princess and Junior Princess is McKen­zie Bump, right, of Park Ave. School in Mt. Gilead.

(Left) Jack­son Wright, 1 1/2, and his sis­ter Kallie, 3, have lunch with grand­fa­ther Steve Wise­man of Con­gress Twp. Kallie won the Jack and Jill com­pe­ti­tion held Wednes­day evening. (Right) Eli­jah Weber, 2, Dakota Ship­man, 10, Dom­nic Weber, 5, and Skye Ship­man, 9, hold Cal­i­forn­ian rab­bits at Thursday’s fair.

Judge Larry Shroyer of DeGraff, OH inspects the Robin­son family’s sheep Thurs­day afternoon.