Horse Exhibitors, please join Granville Milling & Purina for this free educational event open to anyone.
RSVPs are due Monday, November 8th. RSVP online at www.granvillemilling.net
Horse Exhibitors, please join Granville Milling & Purina for this free educational event open to anyone.
RSVPs are due Monday, November 8th. RSVP online at www.granvillemilling.net
Horse Exhibitors, please join Marshall Grain & Amanda Animal Hospital for this free educational event open to anyone.
RSVPs are due September 3rd via Facebook or by calling 740.969.2301.
All Horse Exhibitors ages 8-18 and 4-H eligible are invited to attend the Fairfield County Horse Advisor’s Open Horse Show this Sunday, August 15th at 9am. This show will take place rain or shine on the Fairfield County Fairgrounds. Registration takes place on the day of show and starts at 8:00am. The show bill is shown below for the day.
Congrats to Fairfield County 4-H members participating in the 2021 Ohio State Fair Horse Show. For a complete list of results, click here.
Kylynne Sollenberger
Jessalyn Daubenmire
Karli Cutright
Jadin Triplet
Annesley Leith
Ashley Love
Ashlyn Carder
Morgan Cutright
Reminder, the following forms are due for Primary AND Back-up horses on June 1st to the OSU Extension Office. Please work with your 4-H/FFA Advisor as they will likely submit all forms on behalf of your club/chapter.
With the cancellation of the 2020 Ohio 4-H Conference, our tenured 4-H advisors were unable to be recognized in person. On the evening of December 1st, the Ohio 4-H Program recognized these individuals along with other awards.
2020 Junior Fair Updates by specie have been organized and posted by specie on the OSU Extension/4-H website. Please note that this information is current as of 10/8/2020 and is subject to change. Updated documents will be reposted to this site with the updated date noted next to the specie should that need to happen. http://go.osu.edu/2020fairinfo
Items that have been updated since they were originally posted on 9/23/2020:
Please take the time to read all updates as it pertains to your family and Junior Fair participation this year. Please review the 2020 General Rules and Modified Junior Fair Schedule listed at the top of this page. Additionally, since no updated rule book was printed for 2020, it is important to read the 2019 Junior Fair Book rules as well for your respective specie. All of this information is listed on this page of the website.
Please reach out if you have any questions at all!
Here is a screenshot of our OSU Extension/4-H website where the updates are posted. Below the 2020 updates, you will find links to the 2019 Junior Fair Rule Book.
2020 Junior Fair Updates by specie have been organized and posted by specie on the OSU Extension/4-H website. Please note that this information is current as of 9/23/2020 and is subject to change. Updated documents will be reposted to this site with the updated date noted next to the specie should that need to happen. http://go.osu.edu/2020fairinfo
Please take the time to read all updates as it pertains to your family and Junior Fair participation this year. Please review the 2020 General Rules and Modified Junior Fair Schedule listed at the top of this page. Additionally, since no updated rule book was printed for 2020, it is important to read the 2019 Junior Fair Book rules as well for your respective specie. All of this information is listed on this page of the website.
Please reach out if you have any questions at all!
Here is a screenshot of our OSU Extension/4-H website where the updates are posted. Below the 2020 updates, you will find links to the 2019 Junior Fair Rule Book.
4-H members are required to complete a project or record book each year for each of the projects in which they are enrolled. In past years, advisors reviewed project books for livestock, horse, gardening/crop projects at the club level – unless members pursued the Premier Exhibitor Contest, where they turned in their project book at the fair to compete in the Project Book Contest.
Likewise, FFA members are required to complete project records for their Supervised Agricultural Experience (SAE) projects through AET. If FFA members chose to participate in Premier Exhibitor in the past, they also turned in a printed version of their project records from AET to be reviewed in the Project Book Contest.
In 2020, Skillathons returned to the Fairfield County Junior Fair and the Project Book Contest and Premier Exhibitor Test have been discontinued for the Premier Exhibitor Contests. Originally, our plan was to have project books reviewed as a station of in-person Skillathons. The books would have been quickly reviewed in person by a judge who also would have interviewed the exhibitors on what they have learned from their 4-H/FFA project(s). Due to COVID-19 and moving Skillathons virtually, this in-person book review could not take place and an alternative plan was established.
Our alternative plan to review project books this year will be a county level review. 4-H Project/Record Books will be reviewed by 4-H Staff at the Extension Office while FFA Record Books will be reviewed by each FFA Advisor in their respective chapters.
What do exhibitors need to do?
What do 4-H advisors need to do?
Drop-off schedule:
How will 4-H Staff/FFA Advisors review books?
Details on 4-H Project Books:
The newer 4-H livestock record books are designed to include records for all projects taken in that specie. Add additional pages if needed if you are keeping separate records (i.e. pygmy vs. dairy goats). If you are taking more than one project in a specie, you should fill out all information applicable for those projects in your 4-H record book (market, breeding, feeders, etc). Those projects that share ONE 4-H record book are as follows:
The 4-H livestock record books that have not been updated by Ohio 4-H in recent years have separate books for breeding and market. 4-H members taking both market and breeding should be completing a book for each project.
Additional books that should be completed for the following projects:
Book Drop-Off Exceptions:
Additional questions can be addressed to Leslie Cooksey, 4-H Extension Educator, by email at cooksey.25@osu.edu. Additionally, feel free to listen to this recording of an interview with Connie Smith featured on 88.9 The Farm Page on Saturday, September 12th where 4-H and FFA project/record books are discussed: https://u.osu.edu/thenews/files/2020/09/LeslieBooks.2020.mp3
For a printable version of this information, click here: 2020 Project Book Information
The 2020 Equine Ambassador Application is found here. The application is due to the Extension Office by September 11, 2020. Please note that all other specie applications as well as Junior Fair Queen applications are now posted online. Click here for more info.