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2012 Wise County Youth Fair April 2 - 7 |
| BEEF SHOW DEPARTMENT J Market Steer Superintendent: Tim Fletcher, Slidell Assistants: Rickey Read, Steve Freeman, Ron Womack, Robert Johnson Beef Heifer Superintendent: Richard Flynt Longhorn Superintendent: Richard Flynt Market Steer Judge: Chris Skaggs Beef Heifer Judge: Ronald Blum Longhorn Heifer Judge: Justin Hansard _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ RULES AND INFORMATION 1. The General Rules of the Wise County Youth Fair and the following rules will govern the Beef Cattle Department. 2. A substitution fee of $5.00 may be paid and a substitution made between the time animals are entered and the time they arrive at the fair grounds. 3. Market Steers must be ear tagged, tattooed, etc. at the county and/or state validated clinics to be eligible to show. 4. Exhibitors must check with the beef superintendent upon their arrival for stall assignments and exhibitors numbers. 5. All market steers, prospect steers and beef heifers must be trimmed before arrival on fair grounds. Minor touch up will be allowed. THE MARKET PROSPECT STEERS & HEIFER SHOWS WILL BE BLOW & SHOW. NO PAINT, GLUE, ADHESIVE ETC. 6. Breeding Beef Heifers registration and tattoos will be checked on Wednesday between 4-7:00 p.m. 7. Registration papers are required on all breeding females. No entries will be accepted with papers pending. 8. All non-registered beef heifers will be classified as AOB. They must be validated at the county validation in January. 9. The Prospect Steer show will begin Friday at 8:00 a.m. Followed by the Market Steer show, and the Breeding Beef Heifer show at 2:00 pm. 10. Prospect steers may be entered with superintendent upon arrival. Only 2 prospect steers per exhibitor will be allowed to be shown. 11. Prospect steers classes will be broke after all entries received. 12. Steers must be dehorned, and all market animals must lead and be controllable or they will be barred from the show. 13. Steers will be put into weight classes by the superintendent after all weight cards are turned in on Wednesday. Those steers weighing less than 1000 lbs. will be shown as prospect steers. Steers weighing 1000 lbs. to 1475 lbs. will be shown as market animals 14. There will be three subdivisions for Market Steers: American Breed and American Crossbred Steers British Breed and British Crossbreed Steers European Breeds and Cross Steers 15. Only market steers will be eligible for the Auction Sale. The Overall Grand and Reserve, and the Champion and Reserve from each division will be sold, then a percent of each division will be sold staying as close to twenty-five (25) lots. It will be divided by the total number of steer entries in all divisions based on a percentage will be in the sale. Give or take one (1) steer. If a steer is floored and checked into the floor buyers assigned pen, they may not be taken back unless agreed to by person or persons that have the floor price on the steers. 16. The Breeding Beef Show is limited to female entries. No bulls are allowed. 17. The Longhorn Show will begin on Monday at 1:00 p.m. with the Longhorn Steer show followed by the Longhorn Heifer show. You may begin moving in on Sunday at 3:00 p.m. LONGHORN STEERS ARE NOT ELIGIBLE FOR THE SALE. 18. Longhorn Beef Heifer papers will be checked on Sunday upon arrival. 19. Longhorn steers must not be over 24 months old on show day. 20. Longhorn heifers must not be over 30 months old on show day. 21. Longhorn heifers over 20 months of age on show day must have a certificate of pregnancy from a licensed veterinarian. 22. Registered, percentage purebred heifers will be place in their breed class or in AOB at the discretion of the beef superintendent. 23. The rules for the longhorn division will align with the Texas Junior Longhorn Association to show. Rules will be available at the show. 24. No more than two (2) breeding animals per class may be shown by any one exhibitor. 25. Breeding animals will be put into classes according to their age after all entries are received. 26. Any heifer 20 months of age or older, on the show day, must have a certificate of pregnancy from a licensed veterinarian. The certificate of pregnancy must be presented at time of registration paper check. It can be noted on the health papers. 27. Seniors exhibitors will be selected to return for showmanship in Breeding Heifers and Market Steers. All Junior exhibitors will be eligible for showmanship. 28. Bedding: NO straw will be allowed in the stalls. Cedar or wood may be used if the exhibitor so desires. 29. Hair Rule: Steers must be shorn to not more than 1/4” on any location of the body, excluding the tail switch. Steers must be shorn before arrival onto the fair grounds. Steers will be checked at weigh-in for the 1/4” length. Violation of the 1/4” uniform length over the entire body will result in immediate disqualification. Steers not shorn will be disqualified from showing. The decision of the superintendent will be final Native Steer Division 30. NO entry fee will be required for this class. 31. The steer must have been conceived and born in Wise County. 32. All steers competing must have a certificate signed by breeder stating that the steer was conceived and born in Wise County. 33. All native steer verification forms must be mailed in by entry deadline. 34. The highest placing steer of each class will be eligible to compete. The Champion and Reserve Champion WILL NOT be eligible. 35. A plaque will be presented to highest placing steer. 36. A plaque will be presented to the breeder of the highest placing steer. 37. Placing of steers in this class will have no effect on qualifying for the auction sale. ALL TRIM CHUTES ARE TO BE SET UP OUTSIDE THE BARNS. AFTER ANIMALS ARE IN PLACE AND IF SPACE IS AVAILABLE CHUTES WILL BE ALLOWED INSIDE. CLASSES: 1. PROSPECT STEER Classes and class breaks will be determined after all weight cards are turned in. Champion Prospect Steer Reserve Champion Prospect Steer 2. MARKET STEER There will be three subdivisions for Market Steers: A. AMERICAN BREED AND AMERICAN CROSSBRED STEERS—Pureblood or crossbred Beefmaster, Brahman, Brangus, Red Brangus, Santa Gertrudis or Simbrah steers. All steers in this subdivision must show predominate breed characteristics of one of these breeds. B. BRITISH BREED AND BRITISH CROSSBREED STEERS—Steers must be straight-bred Angus, Hereford, Polled Hereford, Shorthorn and Red Angus, or must have a sire and dam of purebred, grade or crossbred breeding of one or more of the above breeds. C. EUROPEAN BREEDS AND CROSS STEERS- Will include any cross or other breed of steers not in the above classes. STEERS WILL BE CLASSIFIED. There will be three (3) classifiers. The judgment of breed classifiers is final and not subject to protest The superintendent shall determine number of steer classes in each subdivision after all steers are classified and weight cards are turned in. A Champion and Reserve Champion steer will be selected from each of the subdivisions listed above and the Grand Champion and Reserve Grand Champion overall will then be selected. Overall Grand Champion Market Steer Overall Reserve Champion Market Steer Junior Showmanship, Market Steers Senior Showmanship, Market Steers 3. NATIVE STEER A plaque will be presented to the highest placing steer. A plaque will be presented to the breeder of the highest placing steer. 4. BREEDING BEEF HEIFER Maximum age of heifers is thirty (30) months as of March 1, 2012. NO heifers born before September 1, 2009. There must be four (4) head entered and shown to constitute a breed. Heifers must be trimmed before arriving at the Wise County Youth Fair. Minor touch up will be allowed. All Breed Champions and Reserve Champions will compete for Supreme Champion and Reserve Champion Breeding Female. 5. LONGHORN HEIFER Longhorn heifers will be shown by age after all entries are in. 6. LONGHORN STEER Longhorn steers will be broke by age. Longhorn steers must not be over 24 months on day of show. Junior Showmanship, Longhorn Senior Showmanship, Longhorn CLICK ON LINK BELOW FOR OWNERSHIP FORM & NATIVE STEER FORM BREEDING HEIFER OWNER INFORMATION NATIVE STEER FORM |
