Just over a thousand purebred breeding gilts were competing for breed and overall honors Thursday and Friday- and when it came down to the nine breed champs on Friday afternoon, Madison Walker of Red Oak FFA took the Supreme Championship. She showed the Champion Berkshire Gilt on Friday that was then selected as the 2024 OYE Supreme Champion Purebred Breeding Gilt. Madison’s gilt will be one of the first gilts that will sell on Tuesday evening at the OYE Night of Stars Gilt Sale.
The Reserve Supreme Purebred Gilt was the second best Berkshire gilt at OYE- shown by Ava Gilcrease of Turner FFA. (Pictured below)
Here are the top winners in the nine breeds shown at the 2024 OYE:
Chesters
Champion- Layne Allen, Canute 4-H
Reserve- Madelyn Gray, Vanoss FFA
Third- Kylen Kamp, Laverne FFA
Durocs
Champion- Gabby Todd, Porter 4-H
Reserve- Neely Pritchard, Weatherford 4-H
Third- Tucker Bloodworth, Dibble FFA
Herefords
Champion- Hudson Long, Dibble FFA
Reserve- Layken Abbott, Yale 4-H
Third- Sydnee Prince, Garber FFA
Landrace
Champion- Braxten Willis, Caney Valley FFA
Reserve- Devlynn Cartmell, Kremlin-Hillsdale FFA
Third- Connor Imhoff, Prague 4-H
Polands
Champion- Cason Catlin, Hinton FFA
Reserve- Macyn Olson, Oologah FFA
Third- Maci Childress, Fort Gibson 4-H
Berkshires
Champion- Madison K. Walker Red Oak FFA
Reserve- Ava Gilcrease Turner
Third- Caroline Kenny Mooreland FFA
Hampshires
Champion- Madison K. Walker Red Oak FFA
Reserve- Hudsyn Boren Leedey FFA
Third- Adyson Williams Chickasha FFA
Spots
Champion- Tanner Franke Covington-Douglas 4-H
Reserve- Thomas Grippando Hartshorne FFA
Third- Layne Allen Canute 4-H
Yorkshires
Champion- Ginelle Huff Moss 4-H
Reserve- Dax Johnson Crowder 4-H
Third- Kyle Lewis Okeene FFA
You can view the spreadsheet from OYE listing all of the purebred gilts actually shown and the class and breed winners by clicking here.
Click here for the full schedule for the 2024 OYE. The Oklahoma Farm Report team will be snapping pictures from start to finish- and you can see them as we add them to our Flickr album for 2024- available here. If you want to look back to the 2023 OYE- click here for our pictures from last year’s event.
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