2014 JUNIOR FAIR NEWS

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1 2014 JUNIOR FAIR NEWS 2014 Junior Fair Theme Round Up The Red, White & Blue June 2014 PARADE TIME CHANGES THE JUNIOR FAIR PARADE WILL NOW LINE UP AT 3:30 PM. PRE-JUDGING WILL OCCUR BETWEEN 3:30 AND 4:30 PM. THE PARADE WILL BEGIN PROMPTLY AT 4:30 PM KIWANIS Kiwanis papers are to be turned in Tuesday of the show between 11:00 AM and 12:00 Noon only. All papers will be checked and returned. Livestock must be exhibited by Jr. Fair exhibitors only. This livestock remains on the grounds all week as a Jr. Fair project. No late entries will be allowed Pullorum Testing for Poultry All breed poultry and game birds must be Pullorum tested. This will done at the fairgrounds on July 21, 2014 from 5:00-6:00 PM in the Dairy Arena. Excluding turkeys, other arrangements must be made to have turkeys tested. Market chickens and market turkeys ordered through the Jr. Fair Livestock Sale Committee will not require the test as these come from a tested provider. All Poultry must be free of external parasites on arrival at the. Any poultry showing signs of external parasites (for example: lice or mites) will be subject to removal upon decision of the Veterinarian Notice to all exhibitors of ruminant animals The Ohio Department of Agriculture requires all exhibitors of ruminant animals (cattle, sheep and goats) to sign a form stating they have not been fed any animal by-products. This form is available along with the DUNF forms and must be turned in at the gate when you arrive with your ruminant animals for check-in on Saturday, August 2, More information on when and where these forms will be distributed will follow at a later date. SWINE BARN FANS The fair board will be installing 2 large fans in the swine barn, similar to the fan now used in the show ring. Sponsors are needed to help offset the cost of these fans. Have your club name, family name or business name put on a blade for $700. Smaller donations will be accepted as well. These blades will give you years of advertising to come. A sign will also be posted in that barn area listing all of the sponsors of the fan blades. Contact Amber Brown or Paula Carpenter today to reserve your blade and arrange for invoicing. $700 per blade or a smaller donation toward the purchase of a blade.

2 June 2014 Page 2 Market Rabbits Tag-in for Market Rabbits is Wed., July 09, 2014, 6:00-8:00 PM at the fairgrounds. Market Rabbit exhibitors must bring their market rabbits to the fairgrounds to be tattooed by the Jr. Fair Livestock Sale Committee. If the exhibitor registered one pen they may bring 3-4 rabbits to be tattooed, if they registered two pens they may bring 6-8 rabbits to be tattooed. Please remember that one pen for the fair is only 3 rabbits. NO EXCEPTIONS! NOTE: Breed rabbits must also be tattooed prior to bringing them to the fair. Drug Use Notification Forms Drug Use Notification Forms are required for all livestock entering the Athens County Fairgrounds except dogs and rabbits. These forms are mandatory for open class livestock as well as Junior Fair Livestock. The Ohio Department of Agriculture requires us to send in drug use notification forms on all beef cattle, dairy cattle, goats, sheep, swine, horses, market dairy feeder calves, chickens, ducks, geese and turkeys. One form per animal except in market chickens. Market chickens fill out one form per pen of 2. Exhibitors attempting to enter without a completed and signed drug use notification form will be turned away as ODA rules apply. More information on when and where these forms will be distributed will follow at a later date. If you need help with this form we will be glad to come to one of your club meetings and help with these before the fair. Just give us a call. A sample form is on the fair s website: FORMS, FORMS AND MORE FORMS Forms for booth, parade, stall drawing and King/Queen are all available on the fairs website: under the Forms and Special Contests button. These forms are all due by July 11, No forms are to be ed. They can be mailed to the fair at P.O. Box 669, Athens OH or dropped in the box that will be on the front porch of the Secretary s Office on the fairgrounds. DO NOT ANY FORMS Please read the instructions on all the forms carefully. Incomplete forms cause delays and clubs to be missed. Club Jr. Fair Entry Form and Pass Form is due July 21 by 4:00 pm at the Extension Office. Stall Drawing is Thursday, July 17, 2014 at 7:00 pm in the Grange Building King/Queen judging is Sunday, July 20, 2014 at 2:00 pm in the Secretary s Office.

3 June 2014, Page 3 Arrival Times **NOTICE** SOME OF THESE HAVE CHANGED SO PLEASE READ CAREFULLY **THESE HAVE CHANGED** Turkeys, Chickens, Rabbits Sheep & Goats Arrival Times for Saturday, August 2, :00 am 11:00 am 6:00 pm 8:00 pm (Market lambs must have their milk teeth at the time of the fair. Market lambs missing milk teeth will be disqualified for the market show and sale.) Market Beef, Market Dairy Feeders, Beef Feeders Dairy Cattle Swine and Equine 6:00 pm 8:00 pm 6:00 pm 8:00 pm 7:00 pm 9:00 pm Weigh-In Times - **THESE HAVE CHANGED** SATURDAY, AUGUST 2, 2014 Turkeys, Chickens, Rabbits Saturday, Aug. 2 9:00 am-11:00 am at check-in Market Beef Saturday, Aug. 2 8:00 pm-8:30 pm Beef Feeders Saturday, Aug. 2 8:30 pm-9:30 pm Market Dairy Feeders Saturday, Aug. 2 8:30 pm 9:30 pm Goats Saturday, Aug. 2 8:00 pm-8:30 pm Sheep Saturday, Aug. 2 8:30 pm-9:00 pm Swine Saturday, Aug. 2 9:00 pm-10:00 pm NO SCALES PERMITTED ON THE FAIRGROUNDS AT ANY TIME OTHER THAN THE SCALES OWNED BY THE FAIR BOARD. VIOLATORS WILL BE DISQUALIFIED FROM EXHIBITING, SHOWING AND SELLING AN ANIMAL.

4 June 2014, Page Junior Fair Board President-Mackenzie Lowe Vice President-Becca Bycofski Secretary-Jennifer Rowan Treasurer-Sierra Powell Hannah Beckley Jamie Dillon Ben Gilkey Katie Jones Tyler Martin Rachel Nelson Mariah Rawlins Breanna Russell Katelyn Smith Marianne Swart Cody Tipton Chelsea Washburn Advisors: Paula Carpenter, Lester Green, Amber Brown, Maryann Stalder, and Teresa Tedrow 2014 Junior Fair Livestock Sale Committee President-Jeff Cox Vice President-Kenny Meeks Secretary/Treasurer-Peg Six Amber Brown Jeremy Carr Taylor Carr Noah Cox Jack Fulton Lester Green Calvin Jarvis Sonia Jarvis John Jones Levi Jordan Chase Meeks Kenny Meeks Polly Mitchell Brian Nicholson Kayla Nicholson Brittany Mendez Sierra Powell Mike Pullins Scott Rawlins Keith Reasoner J.C. Varner Josh Vernon Tom Weekley USDA Rule for Swine Identification to take place again in 2014 The USDA is requiring all Ohio Fairs to tattoo market swine before they leave the fairgrounds the week of the fair. This tattoo will be placed on all market swine during the week of the fair prior to the Friday night Junior Fair Livestock sale. Please be prepared when the Sale Committee comes around to tattoo your animal. Questions can be directed to any Livestock Task Force member Junior Fair Committee Betty Cunningham, President Carrie Tipton, Vice President Teresa Tedrow, Secretary Pam Boyer Paula Carpenter Kerry Ervin Lester Green Anna Hembree Maegan Lackey Ron Llewellyn Rhonda Meeks Deanna Parsons Michelle Rawlins Danny Simons Misty Six Peggy Six Maryann Stalder Sabrina Stalder Interested in joining the Junior Fair Committee? Pick-up an application at the secretary s office on the fair grounds. Deadline to apply is August 31, Senior Fair Board President-Davey Christman Vice President-Reid Hart Secretary-Sabrina Stalder Treasurer-Paula Carpenter Amber Brown Jeremy Carr Lester Green Harry King Ron Llewellyn Kenny Meeks Andrew Sayers Danny Simons Scott Simons Rick Six Larry Buggs Stalder Tommy Tedrow Jim Washburn Tom Weekley Market Livestock Handbook The 2014 Market Livestock Handbook is now on the web for you to see. This handbook is an invaluable tool for all market animal exhibitors. Download it, print it, and just make sure you have a copy handy. Access the handbook at: Then click on the link 2014 Market Handbook

5 Ultimate Showmanship 9:00 A.M. Swine Show Arena June 2014, page 5 Committee: Paula Carpenter, Chair; Lester Green, Kenny Meeks, Scott Simons, Rick Six, Larry Buggs Stalder, Jim Washburn and Tom Weekley GUIDELINES: 1. Participants must be Junior Fair Age. 2. The contest will be divided into 11 parts (Western Horse, English Horse, Sheep, Market Goats, Dairy Goats, Swine, Beef, Dairy, Market Dairy Feeder Calves, Poultry, Rabbits). 3. Participants will be the winners of Pro-showmanship for each of the 11 parts. 4. Winners do not have to participate if they do not wish to. 5. In the event a Pro-Showmanship winner is ineligible or chooses not to compete in the Ultimate Showmanship contest, the 2 nd place winner will be offered the chance to compete. 6. Participants will show in 11 different species using correct showmanship techniques for each species. 7. The Pro-Showmanship winner for each species will demonstrate the showmanship technique prior to each species contest and will be placed given a score of one. 8. The judge will rate the participants on a scale of one to 11 with one being the highest and eleven being the lowest. Participant with the lowest total points in the eleven departments will be the winner. 9. In the case of a tie, tying participants will draw two animals and show these two animals to break the tie. Tie breaking animals cannot be from the member s winning species. 10. Ultimate Showmanship winners may not compete again in the same species in which they participated in previous years, but may participate in another species if they are taking that species as a project. Example: Johnny wins swine pro-showmanship and signs up to participate in the Ultimate Showmanship contest and wins. He cannot come back next year in swine; he can only participate in another species. This species must be a project exhibited and shown at the fair that year. 11. Contestants are not allowed to speak to each other while in the show ring. Contestants talking to each other while in the show ring will be disqualified from that species. 12. Participants must sign up to participate in the Ultimate Showmanship contest and present a Junior Fair Ultimate Showmanship Liability Release Form no later than Wednesday, by 9:00 p.m. The Dairy winner must inform of their intent to participate immediately following the Dairy Pro Showmanship class. 13. Contestants are responsible for getting an animal and necessary show gear from each of the 11 species that will be shown by the participant. 14. A signed Junior Fair Ultimate Showmanship Animal Liability Release Form is required for each of the animals being used and must be turned in at the Junior Fair Office by 9:00 p.m. Thursday. Failure to secure an animal will result in the lowest score for that species. 15. Judge must be from outside Athens County and cannot have been an exhibitor or listed as an advisor in any Athens County 4-H Club or FFA Chapter. Jr. Fair Livestock Market Checks Distribution of market livestock sale checks will be Thursday, August 14, 2014, 6:00pm to 7:00pm at the Secretary s Office. Exhibitors MUST have a thank you letter/card for their buyer when picking up the check even though you gave your buyer a card or gift at the sale. Letters/cards must be addressed to the buyer, have exhibitor s return address on them and have the correct amount of postage affixed. Market checks must be picked up by the exhibitor or person designated by the exhibitor. The designated person must bring a signed permission letter from the exhibitor or they will not be allowed to pick up the market check regardless of the relationship to the exhibitor. Checks not picked up on this night must contact Peg Six at

6 June 2014, Page 6 Trash Barrel Contest Rules Trash Barrels are to be turned in to the Junior Fair Board Office on Saturday, July 19, Open to all Junior Fair groups. 2. Must be in good taste. 3. No advertising, political figures or religious. 4. Must be made of material that will stand up to the elements outside. 5. Any entry deemed to be offensive would be disqualified. 6. Winners will receive a ribbon for 1st thru 5th place. 7. Entries become the property of the. Classes: Entry Fee: To be determined None Awards: Cash prizes 1st place $ nd place $ rd place $10.00 Picket Fence Decorating Contest Rules Fences are to be turned in to the Junior Fair Board Office on Saturday, July 19, Open to all Junior Fair groups. 2. Fences will be judged with regards to the Junior Fair Theme. 3. Must be in good taste. 4. No advertising, political figures or religious. 5. You may use an already made fence section, or you can make your own picket fence. 6. Must be made of materials that will stand up to the elements outside. 7. After the judging you may choose to put your fence in front of your booth in the Junior Fair Building. If you choose not to use your fence in your booth, then it will be displayed on the fairgrounds. 8. Not to exceed 4 ft. wide by 4 ft. tall. 9. No electrical parts. 10. Any entry deemed to be offensive will be disqualified. 11. Winners will receive a ribbon for 1st thru 5th place. 12. Entries must remain on fairgrounds for entire week of the fair. Classes: Entry To be determined Fee: None Awards: Cash prizes 1st place $ nd place $ rd place $10.00

7 June 2014, Page 7 Landscaping/Gardening Competition Landscaped areas should to be ready to be judged by opening day of the fair, Friday at noon. PROCEDURE: Please contact Paula Carpenter to get a list of landscaping/gardening spots that are available. They will be reserved on a first come, first served basis. The Athens County Agricultural Society is just giving permission for your group to garden in the specific area allotted to them by the Junior Fair Board. Any improvement to the grounds must be left in place after the fair, or the site should be returned to the original state. Landscaping sites will be judged for originality, composition, color, proportion, balance, size, and condition. 1. Open to all Junior Fair groups. 2. Must be in good taste. 3. No advertising, political figures or religious. 4. No electrical parts. 5. Any entry deemed to be offensive will be disqualified. 6. Winners will receive a ribbon for 1st thru 5th place. Classes: To be determined Entry Fee: None Awards: $100 $75 $50 Chair Flower Pot Decorating and Club T-Shirt Contest Decorated flower pots and t-shirts are to be turned in to the Junior Fair Board Office on Saturday, July 19, Open to all Junior Fair Groups 2. Must be in good taste. 3. There are no size restrictions 4. No advertising, political figures or religious. 5. Chair Flower Pots and t-shirts will be judged with regards to the Junior Fair Theme. 6. Any entry deemed to be offensive would be disqualified. 7. Winners will receive a ribbon for 1st thru 5th place. 8. You must purchase your own chair or make your own and must purchase your own t-shirt. 9. After the judging you may choose to put your chair flowerpots and t-shirt in your club or chapter s booth in the Junior Fair Building. 10. No electrical parts. 11. Entries must remain on fairgrounds for entire week of the fair. Classes: To be determined Entry Fee: None Awards: Ribbons 1st through 5th place.

8 June 2014, Page 8 Rubber Boots, Flip Flops, Rock, Sweatband/Headband and Tote Bag Decorating Contest Rules Decorated rubber boots, flip flops, rocks sweatband/headbands and tote bags are to be turned in to the Junior Fair Board Office on Saturday, July 19, Open to all Junior Fair individuals. This includes Cloverbuds. Please note that this is an individual competition. 2. Must be in good taste. 3. No advertising, political figures or religious. 4. Rubber boots, flip flops rocks, sweatband/headbands and tote bags will be judged with regards to the Junior Fair Theme. 5. Any entry deemed to be offensive would be disqualified. 6. Winners will receive a ribbon for 1st thru 5th place. 7. You must purchase or obtain your own rubber boots, flip flops, rocks, sweatband/headbands and tote bags. 8. After the judging you may choose to put your rubber boots, flip flops, rocks, sweatband/headbands and tote bags in your booth in the Junior Fair Building. If you choose not to use these in your booth, then they will be displayed on the fairgrounds. 9. No electrical parts. 10. Entries must remain on fairgrounds for entire week of the fair. Classes: To be determined Entry Fee: None Awards: Ribbons 1st through 5th place Premium Money The distribution of open class premium money, Junior Fair premium money and Junior Fair contest award monies will be in cash, no more checks. Any premiums or awards not claimed by Saturday, August 9, 2014 at the close of the fair will be forfeited. The board no longer mails checks. There will be no exceptions to this rule. Open Class Dairy Cattle, Beef Cattle and Sheep Open class dairy cattle, beef cattle and sheep that are not used for junior fair exhibition may arrive day of the show. Animals will show off their trailer and must be on the grounds by 8:00 a.m. day of the show and be veterinary checked before they can unload. These animals will be released to go home following their respective show. Scrapies Tag Rules The Livestock Task Force requires all sheep and goats to have a Scrapies tag before they enter the grounds. No exceptions to this rule. This means no matter what the age of the sheep or goat. ALL sheep and goats must have this Scrapies tag or they will not be allowed to enter the fairgrounds, show, exhibit or sell.