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Butler County Junior Fair Section
113 2025 Butler County Fair
Butler County Jr. Fair Livestock All Junior Fair Market projects are eligible to run
through the sale ring on sale day Saturday.
Sale Information:
• Every Junior Fair exhibitor is eligible to sell
»Livestock Sale will be split into two rings that up to 2 animals per species. This includes
will operate concurrently at the conclusion of the the beef department where an exhibitor can
sale of champions
sell 2 market animals, or 2 feeder calves, or 1
»The order of the sale will be as follows:
of each.
• Sale of Champions will begin at 9:00 a.m.in the • Projects will be automatically entered into
Open Class sheep barn.
the sale and it is the responsibility of the ex-
• If necessary, take a 5-10 minute break to adjust hibitor and their guardian to pull them from
for a second ring.
the sale (if sold at the auction, projects are
• Market Hogs will sell in the Junior swine barn.
ineligible to show at any other junior shows).
• All other species will sell in the Open Class • Exhibitors
sheep barn on a yearly rotation
1/2
have 1
hrs
* Multiple buyer numbers will be accepted at after comple-
the time the animal is declared sold .
tion of livestock
• No more than 4 different buyer numbers will show to pull an-
be accepted on any one animal with the pur- imal from sale.
chase price being distributed evenly across Sale Repre-
those buyers, i.e. 4 buyers purchase an ani- sentatives will
mal for $1000.00, each buyer will be charged be at podium in
$250 equally. show ring. If not
• Buyers groups will be accepted and wel- pulled by this
comed under the condition that a representa- time, all re-
tive collecting the monies, present that under maining pro-
one number, if more than 4 buyers would like jects will be re-
to contribute, or varying amounts of dona- quired to be
tions are desired – i.e. 2 buyers purchase a sold through
project for $400. Buyer 1 puts in $300, and the Junior Fair
Buyer 2 wants to contribute $100. Both will Livestock Sale.
need to purchase the project under one buy- Both the exhibi-
er’s number. tor and the parent/guardian must sign the
Þ All buyer names will be recognized on all Livestock Auction Removal Agreement.
monies run through the ring -Add-ons will be • If for any reason a packer bid would not
allowed, however, that will occur at the cash- be obtained and there would be no Junior
ier’s station (sale office) and those names will Fair Sale Auction, it will be the sole re-
not be recognized on the microphone or sponsibility of the owners of all market
recognition board, yet will still factor in to the livestock to remove their animals from the
Butler County Fairgrounds at their ex-
buyer’s total contribution of the livestock sale.
*All hogs will be loaded out sale day pense by no later than 12:00 midnight Sat-
(Saturday) night at the conclusion of the fair urday, the last day of the fair.
• If there is no packer bid secured for a
activities.
• Hogs will run through the sale ring, and at specific species, the Jr. Fair member will
the responsibility of the Junior Fair exhibitor, only receive the bid price at sale and will
be returned to their pen, and the care of the be responsible for removal of their animal
hogs will be under the responsibility of the by midnight, sale day.
exhibitors or their guardians until the packer
truck arrives that evening (this is simply to
maintain a group and community effort to
keep the pigs’ wellbeing as our primary inter-
est. Loading out in the middle of the day is
very stressful on the pigs, and packers will
pay more for the packer bid if we load out at
night).
