Huron County Junior Fair Links
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| Livestock Sale Information | Livestock Identification Information | Livestock Judges | Quality Assurance |
The 2024 Huron County Fair will be held August 12 - 17, 2024
Visit their website at www.huroncountyfair.com
Huron County Junior Fair Information
List of Livestock Buyers
Buyers are listed alphabetically
Submission Guidelines
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Notes must be turned in unsealed, as we will be checking them to ensure they meet quality standards. An example of a well-written thank-you note and instructions for addressing the envelope are attached.
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Please submit your thank-you notes by September 6. Failure to do so will result in your sale check being held.
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Make sure your thank-you card has a stamp, your full name on the return address (to identify you), and the buyer's full name and address.
Ways to Submit Your Thank-You Notes
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Drop them off at the Extension Office (8:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m., Monday – Friday).
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Bring them to the Junior Fair Office during leftover project pick-up on Thursday, September 5 (6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.).
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Mail them in a cover envelope addressed to: OSU Extension, 180 Milan Ave. Suite 1, Norwalk, OH 44857.
Additional Reminders
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If you received an award, we also encourage you to write a thank-you note to your award sponsors. You can find the address label to your award sponsor struck to the bottom or back of your award. We’ve lost sponsors in the past because they didn’t feel appreciated, so please make sure to express your gratitude.
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Thank-you cards are available for purchase at the Junior Fair Office for $1 each.
2024 Huron County Jr. Fair Sale Order
2024 DUNF Form Link - becomes live within a week of the Huron County Fair
- Livestock exhibitors must submit a completed, signed electronic Drug Use Notification Form (DUNF), one per MARKET animal, except one per pen for market poultry and market rabbits, when they come to the fair. DUNF must be completed by the animal’s weigh-in. Completed DUNF must be submitted for all market cattle, feeder calves, market goats, market swine, market lambs, market turkeys, chicken meat pens, rabbit meat pens, lactating dairy cattle & lactating dairy goats.
- The DUNF must be accurate and valid for the day the animal enters the fairgrounds. Failure to complete a required DUNF will make the exhibitor ineligible for competition at the 2024 Huron County Junior Fair. Any required animal not covered by a completed DUNF will not be penned. It will be sent home unless a proper DUNF is completed.
- Those of you with animals who get tagged/identified at the fair (Market Swine, Market Turkeys) will not know your tag number yet. Please wait and fill this form out when your animal gets tagged. Otherwise, you can fill out this form now. There will be an opportunity to fill the form out at check in at fair for those who need it.
- Market Chickens do not get leg banded. Please write NA for the identification number.
- Once your form has been submitted, you will receive an email receipt. This will need to be shown at check in at fair for proof of completion.
- A DUNF must be resubmitted if ANY medication is administered to ANY animal during the fair, even if a DUNF was not required for that animal at check-in.
This is a Legally Binding Document. Please fill out carefully and accurately!
Livestock Sale Information
Want to learn more about changes to livestock and the livestock sales? OSU Extension is partnering with the Huron County Senior Fair Board and BW Final Drive for a Livestock & Livestock Sale Education/Q&A.
Tune into one of the following dates! Meeting will be held over zoom. There will be a waiting room to admit all guests due to security reasons. Please do not share the zoom link publicly. Zoom links are posted on the 4-H Calendar if you need to access them.
Feb 27th @ 7:00 p.m. - click here for recording
March 5th @ 7:00 p.m.
March 6th @ 12:00 p.m.
Fair Entries
JUNIOR FAIR ENTRIES are due July 8, 2024
*ALL THOSE WISHING TO EXHIBIT AT HURON COUNTY FAIR MUST SUBMIT ENTRIES TO FAIR ENTRY*
*AFTER YOU COMPLETE YOUR FAIR ENTRY YOU SHOULD GET AN EMAIL RECEIPT WITH YOUR ENTRIES ON IT. PLEASE CHECK YOUR SPAM FOLDER. PLEASE CALL THE OFFICE IF YOU DO NOT RECEIVE THIS RECEIPT.
Help for submitting Fair Entries:
Fair Entry System Information Sheet
Resources for Exhibitor Entries
4-H Family How to do entries on Fair Entry Video
Barrow Carcass Program
Please see the forms and applications page for the Barrow Carcass Program. Applications are Due May 1, 2024.
Program Information can be found here and in the requirements letters.
Skillathon
For information and study guide please click here.
Livestock Identification Information
Market Cattle
All market cattle will be tagged with EID tags. Cattle that already have EID tags are not required to attend tagging on December 2nd, but are required to upload Identification to 4-H Online. Cattle chosing not to come, will not be eligible for rate of gain. All others must be brought to the fairgrounds on Saturday, December 2, 2023 between 8:00 a.m. and 10:00 a.m. Market cattle will be weighed and tagged on a first come, first served basis.
Animal ID for Market Cattle that already have EID tags submitted in 4-HOnline - Due December 7, 2024 for 2025
A maximum of four beef animals (any combination of beef steers and beef heifers) and/or four dairy steers per exhibitor may be weighed and tagged.
Feeder Calves
Must be tagged and vaccinated on May 18, 2024 from 8:00 -11:00 a.m.
Exhibitors may tag up to four beef feeder calves (steers or heifers)
and/or four dairy beef feeders calves (steers only)
and/or four dairy cross feeder calves (steers or heifers)
Pictures and informaton need uploaded to 4-HOnline. Click here for instructions to upload. Due May 22nd.
Beef Breeding
Pictures and informaton need uploaded to 4-HOnline. Click here for instructions to upload. Due May 15th.
Sheep and Goat (Breeding and Market)
Pictures and informaton need uploaded to 4-HOnline. Click here for instructions to upload. Due May 15th.
A maximum of four dairy market kids.
A maximum of four meat market kids.
A maximum of six market lambs.
Swine (Market and State Fair Breeding)
Pictures and informaton need uploaded to 4-HOnline. Click here for instructions to upload. Due May 15th.
A maximum of four market hogs.
Those selected to participate in the barrow carcass porgram may identify two additonal hogs.
Dairy
For all grade and non-family registered cattle – A completed identification must be submitted on 4-HOnline for each potential dairy exhibit. Click here for instructions to upload. Due May 15th.
Registered animals, in the family name or official lease in the exhibitor’s name – Provide registration papers on Sunday at the fair in the barns at the stalls after the Exhibitor’s Meeting at 3:00 p.m. Registration papers must be in the family name or an official lease in the exhibitor’s name, with the date by May 15 of current year.
Rabbits (Market and Breeding)
Must be tattooed on Wednesday, July 17, 2024, from 7:00-7:30 p.m.
Meat rabbits must have individual tattoos in the left ear. Tattoos may be by family. If more than 12 rabbits per family are brought to the tattoo clinic,they must already have their private tattoos. Click here for instructions to upload. Due May 15th. for Breeding and 3 days after tattooing for Market
Turkeys and Non Meat Chickens
Pictures and informaton need uploaded to 4-HOnline. Click here for instructions to upload. Due May 15th.
Meat Chickens
Pictures and informaton need uploaded to 4-HOnline. Click here for instructions to upload. Due July 10th
Livestock Judges
2024 Huron County Junior Fair Livestock Judges
| Show | Date | Time | Judge's Name |
| Rabbits | Mon, Aug 12 | 8:30 a.m. | Ashley Sweeney |
| Rabbit Showmanship | Mon, Aug 12 | 8:30 a.m. | |
| Poultry Showmanship | Mon, Aug 12 | 3:30 p.m. | David Adkins |
| Turkeys | Tues, Aug 14 | 9:00 a.m. | David Adkins |
| Dairy Beef | Tues, Aug 14 | 9:00 a.m. | Hadley LeVan |
| Poultry | Tues, Aug 14 | 2:30 p.m. | David Adkins |
| Swine Showmanship | Tues, Aug 14 | 5:30 p.m. | Jada Johnson |
| Swine | Wed, Aug 15 | 9:00 a.m. | Trevor Kirkpatrick |
| Beef Cattle | Wed, Aug 15 | 3:00 p.m. | Noah Skrinjar |
| Dairy Goats | Thurs, Aug 16 | 9:00 a.m. | Jim Wilson |
| Pygmy, Fiber, Rec Goats | Thurs, Aug 16 | Jim Wilson | |
| Sheep | Thurs, Aug 16 | 9:00 a.m. | David Rowe |
| Meat Goats | Thurs, Aug 16 | 5:00 p.m. | Kent Davidson |
| Dairy Cattle | Fri, Aug 17 | 9:00 a.m. | Grant Cope |
Quality Assurance
All Junior Fair livestock exhibitors, except those with horses or breeding rabbits must be certified in livestock quality assurance (QA). Those who tested out of QA in a previous year may not have to complete any additional training this year. (See Test Out Option, below). QA certification is required to exhibit livestock at the county or state fair.
County QA Deadline: June 1
TEST OUT OPTION:
Exhibitors, age 15 - 18 (as of January 1), may "test out" of QA permanently. Exhibitors, ages 12 - 14 (as of January 1), may "test out" of QA for oup to three years, or until they turn 15. The QA test is a 50 question, multiple-choice test for either large livestock (beef, sheep, swine, dairy and goats) or small livestock (poultry and rabbits). The test is offered by Agricultural Education Instructors throughout the county. The passing grade is 70%. Exhibitors may only take the test one time each year. If a passing score is not received, the exhibitor must attend a QA Training session. The test questions are written by OSU Animal Science personnel. 4-H and FFA members who decide to try the "test out" option must make an appointment with an Ag Science teacher at one of the following schools: Monroeville (Scott Bauer), Western Reserve (Mark Starkey), New London (Megan Riley), Willard (Tiffany Nuhfer), Bellevue (Jeff Karcher). The test out option is not offered at South Central. Students in schools not offering the test out option may still take advantage of the opportunity by making an appointment with an Ag Science teacher at another school or the Extension Office.
QUALITY ASSURANCE TRAINING SESSIONS:
QA sessions will still be held throughout the county. An exhibitor may receive credit for QA this year by attending any one of the Quality Assurance Training sessions in Huron County. This is the only option for exhibitors, ages 8 - 11 (as of January 1). Participants arriving late for any session will be turned away
2024 Livestock Quality Assurance Trainings
| Date | Time | Location |
| Thursday, March 28 | 7:00 - 8:00 p.m. | New London High School |
| Wednesday, April 10 | 7:00 - 8:00 p.m. |
Huron County Administration Building *Interactive* LIMITED to 60 participants RSVP Required: go.osu.edu/HuronQA |
| Tuesday, April 16 | 7:00 - 8:00 p.m. | Willard High School |
| Sunday, May 5 | 6:00 - 7:00 p.m. | First Baptist Church (4742 Prairie Rd, Bellevue, OH 44811) |
| Thursday, May 9 | 7:00 - 8:00 p.m. | Western Reserve High School |
| Tuesday, May 21 | 7:00 - 8:00 p.m. | South Central High School |
Junior Fair exhibitors who participate and receive credit for a state-wide Quality Assurance training program will also receive credit for Huron County. (Example: Quality Assurance Training at Beef Expo). Those participating in a state-wide training must provide the Extension Office with a copy of their certification for the year.
YQCA TRAINING ON-LINE
If you are unable to attend one of the Huron County Sessions, you can complete the online training at yqcaprogram.org for a fee of $12/youth. Youth may complete the online YQCA course. This is the only approved online course. Youth must complete the correct course for their 4-H age. If youth plan to do this, please contact Huron4H@osu.edu so that we are sure to receive the correct completion information and can assure that youth select the correct course.