8-6 Waves x Alliance (mate to 2023 ISF Champ and 3rd overall Chester barrows)
Another really strong set coming up this weekend. Quality doesn’t drop off, most just needed a little more time. Hope to have pictures and videos up in the next couple days for this Sunday’s set (March 3rd on Showpig.com)
Making Waves x Alliance (mate to champ barrow at ISF and 3rd overall Chester barrows)
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8-7 Chester Gilt
Didn’t want to sell this one, but so many have expressed interest in her that we are going to offer her up. Mom is a mate to the 2023 Champion Barrow at Indy and also the 3rd overall Chester at Indy. Sire is Making Waves at Lairds. Sells Sunday on Showpig.com.
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Congratulations to Harper Yoder on her Champion Chester barrow at the Elkhart County Fair. Champ out of 11 Chester barrows at the show. Sold in our spring 5GF and SSP online sale.
Placed by Ryan Thwaits and Rex Smith
Alliance x Spotlight
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Pepper [On Parole (Lock it up) x Erica (platinum)]. I am as excited about this sow as any we have ever had. Being out of Erica and knowing her potential as a sow we had to buy her back out of the ISF open show for $2,400. She had a strong show campaign herself and was in the hunt at both the Indiana state fair junior and open show. She is also a maternal sib to our popular class winner at the ISF in 2020 and the Reserve Grand Gilt at the Indiana State Fair Open in 2022.
Last year we didn’t get her matched up ideally but she had a large gilt litter yielding many high quality pigs. A few did well Including a reserve division champ at Clinton county, several at the top of their open show and county classes and a popular calico we sold at the state fair open show. This year we took her to a little more power and couldn’t be more excited about the mating.
Keep your eye out for her litter of 14 out of Pat This! He is the double bred cruel intentions boar at Top Cut that has been doing a great job so far. Having Pat This on the sire side and Lock it Up on the dam side, these pigs are bred similar to the grand overall at the recent Southeast Oklohoma Expo!
Karen comes from a strong litter featuring the reserve champion gilt from the Kentucky State Fair and several mates that were champ or reserves at opens and county fairs. Karen herself showed a couple times and was reserve at an open and champion at Howard County.
We jokingly call her Karen only because she is so loud and excited at feeding time. She loves to eat! Easy feeders and you can do a lot with those. She has a superb disposition in the crate, in the show ring and did great with the kids also!
Alliance is a Box Office son that came from Rodibaughs (a firm who has raised elite Chester’s for decades). He had a great summer last year including the 4th overall Chester at the Indiana State Fair.
Karen has a deep early Jan litter of 9 and we will have some of these at Shaffers Customer Appreciation Sale in March. Shaffer's Goldrush
*will continue to feature litters from what we feel is our best set ever! *
Jordan (Next Gen x Secret Society x Platinum). Litter out of Affliction. This one epitomizes what we are trying to do in the 5GF operation. Show ring success, farrowing crate success, litter consistency, and qualities that stand out. Jordan was an eye catcher all summer long with her stoutness of feature, dense hair and show gilt look. She had a great summer at Clinton county (Grand overall), open shows, and was in the hunt at Indy. Not to mention that she came from a very strong litter featuring the third overall barrow at Shaffers Goldrush Customer Sale, Fifth overall market hog at the Howard County open, a class winning barrow that was in the hunt at Howard County, a gilt that was very competitive at Boone County that sold for $1,350 at the ISF Open and another gilt that was competitive for the Avery family in Wyoming. We are super excited about her litter of 10 out of Affliction (Lairds). Affliction is siring winners all over the country now and the sow power behind him is as good as it gets! Shaffer's Goldrush Premium Blend Genetics
Mrs Royalty is out of a special sow and littermate to a special gilt that was our $9,000 Reserve Grand from the Indiana State Fair Crossbred Open Show and Sale. Hence the name Mrs Royalty. It appears she possesses her mom’s productivity farrowing 10 pigs unassisted in about an hour. Her litter is sired by American Classic that comes from a strong sow line at Tres Amigos. American Classic had a phenomenal summer for Shaffer's Goldrush raising winners at every level. Bred for quality, productivity and consistency. Expect to see some of these babies at Shaffers Customer Appreciation sale in Early March!
First Chester litter to feature. This sow came from a powerful litter in 2021. Raised by Thayer and out of Pruett’s third overall gilt from Indy a few years back. Excited about her litter of “the boom’s”. Power packed pedigree from Ottenwalters and this line has made some major noise recently.
Waited to post this sow to let our customers know we will have a couple elite ones out of her at Shaffers Gold Rush Customer Appreciation Sale on March 12th and will also have a couple special ones on our online sale with Smith Show Pigs on March 3rd at Showpig.com. They are out of the Next Gen boar at Shaffers. Really excited about this litter. Pictures in comments. Terry Shaffer Shawn Flanary
We will be offering some high quality gilts and barrows out of this December chester litter. Sale pics coming soon.
The mother of this litter did a bunch of winning in 2019 and was even reserve grand over all breeds at the Lebanon FFA open. She has raised some elite offspring herself (only a few pics of many in this video). Her mom was a class winner at the ISF and has laid a pile of winners in our program. Proven genetics here.
Spotlight x (Blindfold x First Take)
Can’t tell you how excited we are for this litter. 9-11 also known as Pepper competed with the best all summer long. As a jan 15 she was reserve middleweight at Clinton, a class winner at the knockout classic and in the hunt at both the junior show and open show at the Indiana state fair. In the deepest class at the junior show he tossed the top end for 15+ minutes. Pepper ended up third behind Brody Everhart’s extremely successful division 3 champ that ended up 4th overall. This class also featured the third overall gilt from division 3.
Pepper is unique in that she has no dirty secret in her and she boasts the appetite and growth lacking in many crosses these days. The on Parole boar from Wintex stamps them with lots of shape and a unique look that also is sometimes lacking in the dirty secret lineage. We feel this made her a perfect candidate to tie into the proven end game boar. Pepper couldn’t have done a better job of farrowing. She kicked out 11 unassisted in about 1.5 hours and she has been superb milking and mothering in the crate.
This Jan 2 litter of 11 boasts depth, quality and cool color patterns. Proven and consistent genetics here, so don’t miss out on a unique opportunity to own a special one. Barn will open in mid feb to view our December and Jan litters.
