Contains all the latest rules for showing your projects at the Clinton County Junior County Fair. Download your copy today!

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2011 Pre-Fair and Junior Fair Schedule

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Important!!

Tips for Contacting Propsective Livestock Buyers

Read these important tips before contacting your prospective livestock buyers for fair this year!

4-H & FFA joint membership

Eligible youth may be members of both 4-H (club) and FFA (chapters), or of either group. When a student belongs to both organizations, projects carried, in all cases, must be separate and different (also different animals and/or products) in an effort to broaden the student's experiences and learning.  The following examples will be considered separate and different projects - dairy herd management (cows in production), dairy heifers not freshened; sheep breeding, commercial market lambs; beef breeding, market beef (steers); swine breeding, market hogs; market goats & dairy goats; horse production, horse riding; laying flock, broilers; market rabbits, fancy rabbits (must be different breeds); agronomic crops such as corn, soybeans, wheat and specialty crops such as vegetable gardening, strawberries; electricity, woodworking, and other specialty animals and crops which must be separate and different."

When project selection is a problem, a conference should be held with the member, the agriculture education teacher, the County Extension Agent, 4-H , the 4-H Advisor, and the parents to discuss the situation and resolve the problem for the benefit of the member involved.

2011 Hatch Dates

2011 poultry hatch dates:

Turkeys must be between 14-18 weeks of age at the fair. Hatching dates must be between March 7 and April 4 of the current year.

Meat Pens & Single Roasters must not exceed 9 weeks of age on show day at the fair.

Meat Pens & Single Roasters can be hatched no earlier than May 8 of the current year.

Single Fryers must not exceed 7 weeks of age on show day at the fair. Fryers can be hatched no earlier then May 22 of the current year.  Fryers can be hatched no earlier than May 23 of the current year.
        ** ** All members exhibiting meat pens, single roasters, single fryers, and meat turkeys must turn in hatchery papers at skillathon.

Hatcheries

Eagle's Nest Poultry  (Oceola, Ohio)  419-562-1193 
Ridgeway Hatcheries (Larue, Ohio)  800-323-3825 
Murray McMurray Hatchery (Iowa)  800-456-3280 

Paperwork Deadlines

4-H/FFA Members/leaders who do not turn in completed paperwork including project numbers and signatures along with the $10 Junior Fair Fee by April 1 will not be permitted to participate in the Junior Fair. There are no exceptions.

Fair Entry Forms

Available on Forms and Applications page

Due April 1 unless otherwise specified

Skill-A-Thon

All 4-H and FFA members who are taking an animal project must attend the skill-a-thon. Read More

Clinton County Agriculture Society

The Clinton County Agricultural Society maintains their own web site for the senior fair, located at http://clintoncountyfair.org.