Welcome to an exciting year for the livestock shows at our Pope County Fairgrounds. Almost everything has had changes made so please look over everything carefully. We have also made this entire information available as an easy to print “booklet” PDF.
VALIDATION DATES:
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June 19th, & July 7th @ 6-8PM
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July 14th @ 6-9PM
- Location will be the Pope County Fairgrounds
2025 LIVESTOCK CHECK IN AND SHOW INFORMATION
Livestock Check In –
CUTOFF FOR ALL SPECIES CHECK/WEIGH IN IS 12PM ON 9/9 (TUESDAY)
Saturday 9/6
- 8am – Horse Check in
Monday 9/8
- 4pm-8pm ALL SPECIES CHECK IN
Tuesday 9/9
- 7am-12pm ALL SPECIES CHECK IN
Exhibition Schedule
Saturday 9/6
- 9am – Horse Show
Monday 9/8
- No Shows
Tuesday 9/9
- 1pm – Rabbit Show (Open followed by Junior)
- 4pm – Goat Show (Dairy followed by Market)
Wednesday 9/10
- 9am – Sheep Show
- 7pm – Swine Show
Thursday 9/11
- 10am – Cattle Show
- 1pm – Poultry Show Judging (Poultry Barn Closed)
- 4pm – Poultry Show (Open followed by Junior)
Friday 9/12
- No Shows
Saturday 9/13
- 9am – Buyers Breakfast
- 10am – Market Sale
- 3pm – Poultry Chain Auction
- 6pm – Awards Banquet
- 11pm – 2am – Livestock May be walked/carried out of barn
Sunday 9/14
- No Shows
- Barn is open from x-x for livestock removal and stall cleaning
Specific Rules in Each Division supersede General Rules
GENERAL RULESAMBASSADOR PROGRAMCODE OF ETHICSGrievence / Complaint FormMARKET SALE RULESSchool Absentee PolicyLIVESTOCK JUDGESSALE THANK YOU ADDESSES
BEEF
Cattle Health Regs
101 – Open Breeding Beef
102 – Open Commercial Heifer
103 – Junior Commerical Heifer
104 – Junior Breeding Beef
105 – Bottle Calf
106 – Prospect Steer
107 – Market Steer
108 – Junior Breeding Bred and Owned
Cattle Stalls
Dairy Cattle
HEALTH ALERT Please red new regs
Cattle Health Regs
201 – Open Dairy Cattle
202 – Junior
Dairy Cattle Stalls
Swine
All Market Hogs must have 840 tags inserted prior to entering fairgrounds.
Swine Health Regs
301 – Market Hog
Swine Stalls
Sheep
Need scrapie tags ??? Contact scrapie@usda.gov
Sheep & Goat Health Regs
401 – Open Sheep
402 – Junior Sheep
403 – Market Lamb
Sheep Penning Chart
Goats
Sheep & Goat Health Regs
501 – Open Dairy Goats
502 – Open Meat Goats
503 – Open Fleece Goats
504 – Junior Dairy Goats
505 – Junior Meat Goats
506 – Junior Fleece Goats
507 – Market Goat
508 – Best Bred and Owned
Goat Penning Chart
Poultry
Poultry Health Regs
600 – Poultry Breeds Chart
602 – Open Chickens
603 – Open Other Fowl
604 – Junior Chickens
605 – Junior Other Fowl
606 – Project Chains
607 – PC Variety Flock
608 – Broilers
Rabbits
Rabbit Health Regs
701 – Open Rabbits
702 – Junior Rabbits
703 – Meat Pen
704 – Single Fryer