Matt and Jennifer Munsell, Superintendents
Premiums: Purple $10.00, Blue $8.00, Red $6.00, White $4.00
General Information:
A. Animals should enter through the WEST GATE.
B. The bucket calf show will be separate from the beef and dairy shows.
C. See 4-H/FFA Animals General Rules and Animal Health Requirements for health requirements and other rules pertaining to livestock entries.
D. Dress Code: Exhibitors of bucket calves shall wear a Wayne County 4-H T-shirt, white shirt or T-shirt with the 4-H emblem on it (no State Fair or Ak-Sar-Ben T-shirts), blue jeans, and hard soled shoes (no tennis shoes). No hats are allowed.
E. Bucket calves will be stalled together in a designated place.
F. The bucket calf project is designed to fit the size and maturity level of youth ages 8-12. It teaches proper health care and nutritional requirements of young cattle. It also teaches basic beef management skills without a large investment, basic record keeping skills and a better understanding of the feeder cattle industry.
G. A bucket calf is an orphan or newborn calf, male or female, dairy, beef or crossbred, fed on bucket or bottle. The member needs to take possession of the calf within two weeks of birth. The project begins when a member selects or purchases a calf born between January 1 and June 15 of the current year.
H. Calves need to be ear tagged with an official 4-H tag and identified on an ownership affidavit sheet on or before June 15.
I. Members must complete a one-page record form and turn it in to the Nebraska Extension-Wayne County Office with the pre-fair entries.
J. Members will bring their calves to the fair where they will be tied. At show time, they will be brought at halter to the arena where the member will be interview judged on his/her project work. 4-H members should be prepared to answer questions from the judge regarding their project. Bucket calf projects should be broke to lead. Quality of the animal will not be a consideration in the evaluation.
Bucket Calf classes:
G-031-910 Bucket Calf entry exhibited by 4-H members ages 8, 9 and 10 as of December 31 of the previous year.
G-031-920 Bucket Calf entry exhibited by 4-H members ages 11 and 12 as of December 31 of the previous year.