2025 Fair Update
Livestock Edition
Here are a few key changes that you should check out in the fair book:
- GOATS: NECK CHAINS & HALTERS - Goats are to be shown with either a halter, smooth neck chain, smooth or pronged collars only.
- SWINE: All market classes will be divided by weight. Minimum weight for market class is 230 lbs. Maximum is 320 lbs. Animals not meeting the weight requirements will be shown in premarket or overweight class. These animals will not be allowed to compete for champion, nor will the animal be allowed to sell. NO re-weighs will be allowed.
General Livestock Rules:
- All livestock exhibiting areas must be cleaned by exhibitors at least twice daily.
- If it is observed by the superintendents that a livestock pen has not been maintained to the expected standard, the superintendent will notify the exhibitor with a documented notice. Acknowledgement of the notice will be signed by the exhibitor, a parent or guardian of the exhibitor, a superintendent of that species, and a member of the 4-H Council. If an exhibitor is issued three notices for a species, they will lose the privilege to sell that species at the current Cheyenne County Fair. This disqualification will supersede the requirements for a Grand or Reserve Grand Champion animal.
- All livestock exhibitors must supply their own feed, hay, grain and bedding. Bedding must be approved wood shavings.
Pre-Fair entry forms are DUE to the office by 5:00 pm on MONDAY, JULY 7TH
Reminder Dates, these have not changed from last year but here is a list of important fair dates:
- June 1st - Horse Registration DUE to Extension Office, no substitutions or additions will be allowed on horses not registered by June 1st.
- June 15th - All exhibitors need to be enrolled in 4-H Online
- June 15th - All exhibitors enrolled in beef, goats, sheep, swine, poultry, and rabbits must have completed Youth for the quality Care of Animals (YQCA) training and the certificate turned into the Extension Office.
- June 15th - Animal Affidavits turned into the Extension Office (including the photos for the swine affidavit), no substitutions or additions will be allowed on any animal not registered by June 15th.
The Extension Office Staff are here to serve you!
Use our website (click the extension photo) as a valuable resource for information on Beef Systems, Community Environment, Rural Prosperity Nebraska, Crop and water systems, Food Nutrition and Health, and The Learning Child.
Extension is a Division of the Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln cooperating with the Counties and the United States Department of Agriculture.
The 4-H Youth Development program abides with the nondiscrimination policies of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the United States Department of Agriculture.
