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Following Sale of Champions: the animal be incurred by the exhibitor.
Swine Barn: G) The sale will be conducted using the Premium
1. Swine Bid system. If a buyer“ turns” the animal (s) over
2. Rabbits to the packer the buyer pays the bid price. If the
3. Chickens buyer “keeps” the animal (s), buyer pays the bid
4.Turkeys price plus the packer price.
Open Class Sheep Barn H) Rabbits and poultry sold at the auction may
1. Market Beef be released from the fair as soon as the buyer
2. Feeder Calves shows his or her animal release slip to the barn
3. Sheep superintendent.
4. Goats I) If sale animals are not in correct order and in
*All Market Animals will be turned unless buyer line to sell, they will sell at the packer bid price at
indicates otherwise the appropriate time.
Rules: J) Settlements of sale to exhibitors will occur only
A) Junior Fair participants must sell their own when total sale receipts are collected.
animals at the Junior Fair Livestock sale unless K) Exhibitor must cash sale checks within 60
participating at the Ohio State Fair on that day. days
In this case the market project must be sold by
another Butler County Junior Fair Exhibitor.
B) Junior Fair Grand Champion and Reserve
Grand Champion goat, swine, sheep, and market
beef must go through the sale and shall be termi-
nal.
C) Sale weight will be determined at the Satur-
day weigh in, with no re-weigh prior to the sale.
Weights required to sell in the Jr. Fair sale are:
Market Beef -1000 lbs., Dairy Steers -1100 lbs.,
Swine -220 lbs. -300 lbs., Lambs -85 lbs., Poultry
Pens -no more than 24 lbs., Rabbits -10.5.-16.5
lbs., Turkeys -20 lbs., Goats -50 lbs., Feeder
Calves must weigh a minimum of 200 pounds
and have a top weight of 750lbs.Market animals
weighed on Saturday, move-in day, will only be
weighed once.
D) All market animals that do not make the set
weight range must be removed from the fair-
grounds by 10:00 p.m. on Saturday of move- in
day.
E) All market animals must be drug residue free
on the Saturday weigh-in date of the fair and re-
main drug free through the remainder of the fair
F) In the case of an animal being condemned at
slaughter, the responsibility of said animal will
be that of the seller. If the carcass is condemned
at the packing plant, for any reason this shall be
grounds for disqualifi cation in the Jr Fair market
division of the show. Additionally, all premiums
and sale money shall be forfeited and the loss of