Page 49 - 2025 Fairbook

Department No. 7
49 2025 Butler County Fair

Department NO. 7 - Dairy B. The unethical fitting of livestock which shall include any cutting or
tearing of the hide, cutting or tearing underneath the hide or remov-
David Vollmer-Member In Charge al of tissue in any attempt to alter the shape or appearance is con-
sidered tampering and is prohibited. It should also include attempts
Rules Governing This Department: to disrupt or change normal dental development, dyeing or coloring
Please Read All Rules Carefully hair, adding artificial tail heads, switches, polls, hair and heels, as
well as any attempt to change the conformation and degree of
A. Entries close and must be into the Senior Fair Board Office by firmness, by administration of fluids or air internally or externally in a
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3pm. On Saturday June 28 2025. Late Entries accepted until July
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12 2025 at 3pm. With $75/entry. If entries are mailed, you may liquid, solid or gaseous state.
check with the fair board office at 513.892.1423 to see if they have C. The awards in Open Class Dairy Judging will be made Monday,
been received before the deadline. We are not responsible for de- st
lay or loss of mailed entries. July 21 , commencing at 9:30 a.m.
B. Open Class exhibitors must purchase a Society Membership, 4- Open Dairy Show:
Day Pass or 7-Day Pass, except Butler County Jr. Fair Exhibitors Monday July 21 , @ 9:30am:
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who are entering their Junior Fair Animals.
Premiums for Dairy Cattle:
C. Stall rental is $5.00 per head unless it is a 4-H or FFA project . En- 1 $20.00 2 $15.00 3 $10.00
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try Fee $8.00 per entry. Fees must be paid at time of entry. All Jun-
ior Fair animals must be entered under Junior Fair exhibitor’s Sections 1–3 N/A
name. Do not reserve more stalls/pens than needed. If additional
housing is reserved and cannot be accommodated, fees will not be Dairy Breed Sections:
refunded.
Section 4: Ayrshire
D. Livestock must be in their proper places by 12:00 Midnight, Satur-
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day, July 19 2025. Section 5: Brown Swiss
E. Livestock trailers will not be permitted to park in the infield fair week. Section 6: Guernsey
Trailers must be moved off the fairgrounds by12:00 a.m., Sunday, Section 7: Holstein
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July 20 2025.
Section 8: Jersey
F. Any exhibitor making a protest against another exhibitor shall de-
posit $200.00 with the Secretary at the time of making the com- Section 9: Milking Shorthorn
plaint and if protest is not sustained, will be forfeited.
G. All Jr. Fair animals must be entered under Junior Fair exhibitor’s Classes for Dairy Cattle-Sections 4-9:
name.
1. Junior Heifer Calf - born March 01, 2025 - Apr. 30, 2025.
H. All animals must be exhibited in show ring and judged, even in
absence of competition, in order to be awarded premium. 2. Intermediate Heifer - born Dec 01, 2024- Feb. 28, 2024.

I. Exhibitors must furnish own bedding. No straw furnished. Straw 3. Senior Heifer Calf - born Sept. 01, 2024 - Nov 30, 2024.
and wood shavings Only type of bedding permitted. 4. Summer Yearling - born June 01, 2024 - Aug 31, 2024.

J. No Cooking in barns. 5. Junior Yearling - born March 01, 2024- May 31, 2024.
K. Entries will not be accepted unless animals are registered. All ex- 6. Winter Senior Yearling-born Dec 01, 2023 - Feb 29, 2024.
hibitors must be prepared to show certificates of registration when
called for. Failure to produce registration forfeits right to show or 7. Senior Yearling Calf - born Sept. 01, 2023 - Nov. 30, 2023.
award. No premiums will be awarded unless animal corresponds 8. Junior 2 Yr. Old Cow - born March 01, 2023 - Aug. 31, 2023
to description and ownership as shown by transfer certificates. All 9. Senior 2 year Old Cow - born Sept. 01, 2021- Feb. 28, 2022
animals, regardless of age, must be recorded and appear in the 10. 3 Year Old Cow - born Sept. 01, 2020 - Aug. 31, 2021.
name of the exhibitor on the records of the respective associations.
11. 4 Year Old Cow - born Sept. 01, 2019 - Aug. 31, 2020.
BREEDING RULES:
12. Aged Cow - born prior to Sept. 01, 2019.
A. Misrepresentation as to breeding or ownership of animals and ir-
regularity or violation of rules in showing will be exposed, and any 13. Dry Cow 3 Years and Over
premium won by such exhibitor or agents will be forfeited and if 14. Produce of Dam
payment to exhibitor has been made before the evidence is given 15. Daughter of Dam
that such violations have occurred, the exhibitor must refund premi- ***Any age owned by exhibitor***
um money so forfeited to the Butler County Fair Board of the State
of Ohio or be banned from exhibiting at the Butler County Fair in 16. Best Three Females
the future. ***Shall be Bred and Owned by the Exhibitor***