The Illinois State Fair butter cow sculpture took 90 hours and five days to complete. But it's here. And it's beautiful.
“Get it from all angles, because it really does look so different,” she said.
“The udder attachment on the backside of a dairy cow should be high and wide,” Pratt said. “The back is straight, with just a short incline up to the neck. You don’t want it to be bowed.” The two joined forces when Pratt failed miserably at showing dairy cows at the Iowa State Gair as a teenager. This fair’s cow features 13 hidden hearts to symbolize the 13 essential nutrients in milk, she said. Hidden even deeper inside is the armature Lyon used, which Pratt recently refurbished.Storm kills power, but not the 2005 Illinois State Fair's butter cow mascotPratt now mentors her twin daughters in butter cow sculpting. A few years ago, one had to write an essay about a famous Iowan and picked her mother.
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