How does your check in work?

[WBar Farms]

So our county where one day which is feb 5 tth you have to take your animal and weigh them in and get them registered but I notice how some people don't get their steers till later and their are still steers forsale now so I was just wondering how yours works because its obvious not every county is like that.

 

[SEA]

Our possession date is December1st before the upcoming fair year.  i.e.  December 1, 2010, to show at our August 2011 fair.

Actual weigh-in (used for a mandatory rate-of-gain class), validation (paper work), and ear tagging is always the first Saturday of December, before the upcoming fair.

You must take your cattle to the fairgrounds on the first Saturday in December, in order to be allowed to show at our county fair.

When we first started having a "Validation Date" it was held on the first of February.  However, we live in the Northern Midwest and the weather is very inclement in January and February, both for the exhibitors trailering in cattle and the show officials.  After the first few years of holding the validation in poor weather conditions, we "rethought the validation date" (argue).  We found that most people in our area purchase spring born calves, sold in fall club calf sales (September, and October), for the next years "Summer" county fairs.  It still allows for someone to purchase a steer in Louisville in November to show.  The only thing it does not work for is someone purchasing a steer at the NWSS.  I do not know of many steers purchased at Denver that are brought back this far East to show at a County Fair.

 

[PaFFA Proud]

Our fair rules states your animal must be owned and tagged as of March 1st. Our fair is July 31st-Aug 6th. We have no weigh ins until animal arivial day which I think is Aug 1st. IMO I think animals should be owned sooner like dec. but it isnt going to change. They also dont give as a certian time they need to be born but most people use spring calves.  So youth are on their own with weighing....that is how it is with FFA not really sure about the 4-H kids, until the day animals are checked in O0

 

[lightnin4]

Our fair is the second week of August and steer weigh in/ registration is in March.  Far too many of our exhibitors wait until the last minute.  I sold an unbroke steer to a 4-H member exactly one week prior to weigh in last year.

 

[PaFFA Proud]

It just bothers me that you can have someone work hard on their project for almost a year and someone can go buy an animal already trained and fed well from a farm and only "deal with it" for only about 4 months and possibly win

 

[Ms Ray]

Fairs around us the ownership requirement is 120 days, most kids own them prior to that.  Each fair has a tag in date right around the 120 day requirement where you take your animal to the fair and get a tag and show proof of ownership, some of them do weight and some just have the scales open if you want to weigh your animal.

 

[LittleHeifer]

We just take ours to the weigh in in march both for Canyon County and Western Idaho they tag them there and give them wormer. We have people every year that bring them to weigh in straight off the range that day. All I can say is weigh in is really Dangerous. Not so much WI but CC is, every year.
Little Heifer (angel)

 

[DPShowCattle]

our fair is in september the week after labor day and you have to have them regitered by the first of january ex. to show at this years fair 2011 you had to be registered by jan 1 2011 and then we have a weigh in/ check in the first weekend of january when you go to weigh in they take pictures of your calf and put an electronic ear tag in it and they will nose print them for state fair to the pics are so when fair comes they can make sure its the same calf you checked in and the electronic tag is so there is no way to switch out calves if you mess with the tag or try to take it out it will send a signal to a fair board director and they will call you to find out what happened and they will come out to check the animal

 

[PaFFA Proud]

our fair is in september the week after labor day and you have to have them regitered by the first of january ex. to show at this years fair 2011 you had to be registered by jan 1 2011 and then we have a weigh in/ check in the first weekend of january when you go to weigh in they take pictures of your calf and put an electronic ear tag in it and they will nose print them for state fair to the pics are so when fair comes they can make sure its the same calf you checked in and the electronic tag is so there is no way to switch out calves if you mess with the tag or try to take it out it will send a signal to a fair board director and they will call you to find out what happened and they will come out to check the animal

I REALLY like that deal...I think ALL fairs should do that.

 

[LittleHeifer]

our fair is in september the week after labor day and you have to have them regitered by the first of january ex. to show at this years fair 2011 you had to be registered by jan 1 2011 and then we have a weigh in/ check in the first weekend of january when you go to weigh in they take pictures of your calf and put an electronic ear tag in it and they will nose print them for state fair to the pics are so when fair comes they can make sure its the same calf you checked in and the electronic tag is so there is no way to switch out calves if you mess with the tag or try to take it out it will send a signal to a fair board director and they will call you to find out what happened and they will come out to check the animal

I agree I wish all the fairs did that I know several people who have brought in dif calves.
Little Heifer (angel)

 

[DPShowCattle]

ya we had problems with kids swapping out calves and trying to bring other calves to show so we had to go to this

 

[kattleluver]

Ours is the 2nd Saturday in December tagging and optional weigh in for a mid July fair.  No electronic tagging or nose printing so far. They do nose print for our state fair though. You are supposed to have possession off your animal by December 1 of every year but as long as they are at tagging I don't think the other is enforced.