"Yee Haw!"

Ft. Worth's Cowboy Culture
Spotlighted With Opening of Stock Show

 

by: Bobby McDonald

 

The "fatted calves" are on display and a Grand Champion, bringing $1,000's of dollars will be named, as youth from all across the state seek the prize, in market steer, meet goat, lamb, and swine divisions! Some of the best breeding beef and dairy animals in the Southwest, as well as breeding swine, goats, and sheep, will be paraded before judges, who will assess them on their merits. It's Stock Show time in Ft. Worth!

 

This year's over a century old stock show will showcase Ft. Worth's rich Western heritage, as well as see visitors from almost all 50 states and a number of foreign countries. There will be approximately 22,500 animals entered in the show by livestock breeders and 4-H and FFA students, who will compete for over $5 million in prize money and sale proceeds for market animals. "It's a tradition to go to the Ft. Worth Stock Show, every January," exclaimed one local 4-H'er. "It's always cold and rainy, but it's a great experience to go and exhibit your livestock with some of the best in the state, and see how they 'measure-up' against them!"

Saturday, January 16th, 2010 was the annual Ft. Worth Stock Show Parade, that featured horses, mules, wagons, Cowboys and Indians, trailriders, and even a few unusual conveyances, as the spectacular event wound its way down the streets of Downtown Ft. Worth, to throngs of people, who braved the cool and damp temperatures that were the norm on Saturday.

Enjoy these sights from the Ft. Worth Stock Show Parade:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Meanwhile, a trip to Ft. Worth wouldn't be complete without a few hours spent in the famous Ft. Worth Stockyards, where another complete "dose" of Western culture awaits the visitor.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This year's Ft. Worth Stock Show and Rodeo runs through February 7th, 2010. Hopkins County youth arrived on Friday, January 15th with their breeding dairy cattle and will begin exhibiting them over the weekend and early this week.

 

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