[Image: cattle]Welcome to a new livestock year! This newsletter will keep you informed about activities, shows and information throughout the school year.
Dates for this year’s livestock shows are as follows:
Parish Junior Livestock Show January 16, 2010
South Central District Show February 4-6, 2010
State Livestock Show February 13-20, 2010
** Schedules have not been released yet and will be mailed to you once they are.
**District/State Shows at Lamar Dixon Expo Center
The Southern Livestock Show will be held March 11-13, 2010. If you are planning on showing at Southern Livestock Show please contact me by September 15, 2009.
Possession dates for the 2010 livestock show season:
August 15 -- Market Steers
November 2 -- Market Lambs, Market Goats, and Commerical Heifers, Ewes and Does
(date of parish validation is final possession)
November 7 -- Breeding Beef, Breeding Sheep, Breeding Goats and Dairy
December 1 -- Market Swine (date of parish validaiton is final possession)
December 5 -- Breeding Swine
Fees
Fees have increased for the 2010 State Livestock Show. Please see the table below for your species.
SPECIES GROUP and 2010 Entry Fees
Market Steer/Breeding & Commercial Beef: $25/head
Dairy Breeding & Commercial: $25/head
Market Hogs/ Breeding Swine: $15/head
Market Lambs/Breeding & Commercial Sheep: $15/head
Market Goat/Breeding & Commercial Goats: $15/head
Broilers: $7.50/pen
Exhibition Birds: $3/bird
Grooming Chutes -- Cattle: $15; Sheep & Goats:$10
Lafourche Parish 4-H Livestock T-Shirts
We will be once again selling Lafourche 4-H Livestock shirts. Shirts are lime green and are $12.00 per shirt. Please make checks payable to Lafourche 4-H Foundation and mail it to the Lafourche 4-H Office. I need a minimum of 12 shirts to place the order. In the event enough shirts are not ordered, you will receive your money back. The deadline to order your shirt is October 1, 2009
2009 Livestock Validation Information
We will be validating ALL market and commercial animals this year for the 2010 district and state shows on the parish level. If you do not get your market or commercial animals validated, you will not be allowed to participate in the shows. If you are new to the livestock program or know of someone who is new to the program, please give me a call and let me know.
The validation for Lafourche Parish participants will take place Monday, November 2, 2009, in Raceland at the Agriculture Building from 3 p.m. until 6 p.m. All market animals and commercial animals (expect hogs and steers) have to attend this validation.
Market hogs will also be validated on Tuesday, December 1, 2009, from 3 p.m. until 6 p.m. at the Agriculture Building in Raceland. The date of the validation will be the possession date for market hogs.
Validation will take place in the front parking lot of the Agriculture Building inside the gates. Please enter through the gates closest to the barn and exit through the gates closest to the cookery building.
General validation guidelines:
- Any animals validated for The State Fair of Louisiana 2009 shows and intended to be exhibited at the 2010 LSU State Show will be required to attend an LSU AgCenter validation site and be validated for the 2010 LSU AgCenter State Livestock Show.
- Only validated market and commercial animals will be eligible to be exhibited at LSU AgCenter district and state shows.
- Animals must be validated in either the exhibitor's name or in the family name (Family consists of parents, legal guardians, brothers and sisters.); if validated in family name, when official entry forms are turned in at the parish level, the animal validated must be entered in the name of the exhibitor who will show the animal at the district and state livestock shows.
- The responsibility of tagging animals and collecting DNA/hair samples will be that of the exhibitor and/or parent. Agents/ag teachers must be present and can assist.
- Market and commercial animals will not be officially classified at these locations; however, agents/ag teachers will assist exhibitors in determining correct classification for entries. (Official classifications will take place at the state show; District show managers will have the right to reclassify any animals that are obviously classified incorrectly at district shows.)
- All validations must be conducted in the presence of and observed by agents/ag teachers.
Cost will be $4 per animal
Hardship Statement
I must be notified within approximately 48 hours of the end of validation if an unforeseen emergency or act of God has prohibited exhibitor from attending validation. After contacting me, hardship forms must be immediately filed with supporting material and stating hardship within 1 day. The deadline for making notifications and filing hardship are August 17, 2009, at 4:30 p.m. for Market Steers; November 4, 2009, 4:30 p.m. for Dairy, Beef, Sheep, and Goat species; and December 3, 2009, 4:30 p.m., for Market Hogs. These hardships will be evaluated on a case by case basis by parish agent, district show manager, and state show manager. Only cases where it is determined to have been unavoidable will the exhibitor be allowed to validate. This decision will be final and not subject to appeal.
Hoof Trimming Clinic
If you need your cattle’s hooves trimmed for the show season, please let me know by September 21, 2009 so I can get a head count to make arrangements. More details will follow once everything has been confirmed.
Livestock Information Needed
Please email Katie Wilcox or call (446-1316) with the following information for your livestock animals by August 31, 2009:
- Type of specie showing (lambs, goats, beef, etc.)
- Market, Breeding or Commercial
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Classification and sex of breeding animals (Ex. Angus Heifer or Boer Buck)
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I hope you have enjoyed your first Livestock newsletter. There will be more to come. If at any time you have any information that you may want to feature in our newsletter please feel free to contact me. Looking forward to a great show season.