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Drug Identification Forms
Hog Hair Clipping
Scratches from Livestock Sales
Fair Booth Set Up
Livestock Entry Times
Educational Exhibits for the Fair


Drug Identification Forms

All exhibitors enrolled in market hogs, market lambs, market steers, market and dairy goats, dairy cows/heifers, meat pen of rabbits, and broilers must turn in a Drug Identification Form when they unload their animals on Sunday, September 17 (and hogs on Saturday, September 16). These forms must be signed by both parent and exhibitor regardless of age. Forms may be picked up at the Extension office.
 
The following information will help you complete the forms.
Animal Species - please circle
Animal Identification # - Fair ear tag number
Animal Description - breed of animal
 
Please check the appropriate boxes on the rest of the form and sign. These forms will be checked by the fair veterinarian and MUST accompany the animal to the scales.

 

Hog Hair Clipping

It is recommended that all market hogs have at least 1/2 inch of hair on their body. The ears and tails may be clipped shorter.

 

Scratches from Livestock Sales

All exhibitors who do not wish to sell their market animal must turn in a non-sale form to the Junior Fair Office two hours following the completion of the specie show. Forms will be available at specific specie show.

 

Fair Booth Set Up

Help is needed with putting up the Fair Booth structures. This will be done on Wednesday, September 6 and Wednesday, September 13 at 6:00 p.m. We meet and begin work in the Commercial Building. The more help we have, the quicker the job will go!.

Livestock Entry Times

All livestock must arrive and be in place by assigned times on Sunday, September 17, except market hogs which must arrive and be in place on Saturday, September 16. That schedule is as follows:
 
Market Hogs
Saturday — 8:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
 
Breeding Sheep, Market Lambs,
All Dairy & Pygmy Goats
Sunday — 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
 
Market Steers, Feeder Calves, Beef Breeding
Sunday — 8:00 - 5:00 p.m.
 
Rabbits
Sunday — 8:00 a.m.- 4:00 p.m.
 
Poultry/Fowl
Sunday — 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
 
Horses & Ponies
Sunday — 5:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
(Veterinarian not able to be there all day.)
 
Dairy Cows/Heifers
Sunday — 8:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m.

Educational Exhibits for the Fair

Please remember that no 4-H project is complete until there is an exhibit included at the county fair. Fair premiums will only be awarded to those members who have shown their animal during the fair or have put an educational exhibit in their club's fair booth. (Clubs with fewer than 4 projects have the option of giving members' exhibits to Extension staff for display in a miscellaneous project area.)

An educational display illustrats or describes some aspect of your project. A person viewing your display should learn something about what you learned or made through your project work. In many cases your exhibit is something that you made or constructed in your project. The exhibit should be something more than just a simple representation of the type of project you took. For example, measuring cups alone would not be considered an educational exhibit for a foods project. To complete the exhibit, a small sign could be added listing types of ingredients that should be measured in dry vs. liquid measuring cups. A gun cleaning kit for a shooting sports project would need the addition of small signs to tell what each piece of equipment is used for to be an educational exhibit.

Guidelines for numerous projects were revised this year to clarify what constitutes an educational display, so if there is a question please check the project guideline sheet that was in your project book. (Please not that two project areas in particular which were not very clear in the past in regards to fair exhibits were Shooting Sports and Dog projects.) The preferred size for all posters is 14" x 22".

Feel free to contact the Extension office if there is any questions about what to exhibit to cmoplete your project.

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