WORDS BY JEFF GAYE
Schaake & Mullinix set to judge at Summer Synergy this July.
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f exhibitors keep a book on the various judges they show under, what would “the book” say
about Scott Schaake and Chris Mullinix, two judges from Kansas State University who will be in Olds for the Summer Synergy show? Schaake, who coached the Kansas State Livestock Judging Team from 1992 to 2013, laughed when he heard the question. “Funny you say that, because I've actually seen one of those books,” he said. “And they actually track ‘this particular judge likes this or likes that.’” The book entry for Schaake is that he is “a fanatic
for structure.” He doesn’t describe himself as a fanatic, but Schaake says structure is important. “Back then I was doing a lot of steer shows, and of course in a market show you probably put a little more emphasis on muscle as the final product. But I still think structure is a reflection of all the animals in the population, not just the steers. So [the exhibitor] and I had a long discussion about that. Why do you think structure is so important in a steer? I said well, that steer has sisters somewhere around the counter too and they've got to look like a female.”
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