Henry County Meat Animal &

Ham Sale Program

2019 Rules Overview

Henry County Sale Committee

Provide members the opportunity to:

• Learn about meat production.

• Experience owning and caring for an

animal or ham.

• Exhibit their animal or ham.

• Market their animal or ham.

Objectives

Enroll by project-specific date.

Attend project meetings.

Participate in 2 cleanup days.

Sell only one species.

Own and care for animal by specified

date.

Be a member in good standing with

Henry County 4-H and/or FFA.

Requirements

Meet age criteria for applicable program (4-H or FFA).

Complete Show-Me Quality Assurance (SMQA) Certification.

Exhibit at the Henry County Fair.

Exhibit Hams at the Missouri State Fair.

Show your own animal at the Henry County Fair.

Requirements, continued

Sell your own animal unless

arrangements made with Sale

Committee.

Projects must be of blue or red ribbon

quality to sell.

Requirements, continued

Must participate in Herdsmanship

Contest to sell.

Written story and interview required.

Biography information for sale must be

completed at interview.

See rules for content guidelines.

Each species is awarded by age

category.

Herdsmanship Award

Return Enrollment forms by February

14 to Henry County Extension Office.

Weigh-in on Saturday, February 23,

2019 at 9 am at the Henry County

Fairgrounds.

Steers must be halter-broke at

weigh-in.Steers sell on August 19, 2019.

Steer Requirements

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Animals must weigh-in at 3:30 on sale day and be shown for sale order by the seller at 5 pm.

Alternative sale letters are due to the Sale Committee by August 1.

Seller must participate in a preview show or workshop on June 1st.

Steers must be born in 2018 calendar year.

Rate of gain will be calculated from weigh-in to sale day.

Steers must weigh 1,000 lbs. by July Show and maintain until August.

Steer Requirements, continued

Return Enrollment forms by April 1, 2019

to Henry County Extension Office.

Weigh-in on Saturday, April 27, 2019 at 9

am at the Henry County Fairgrounds.

Hogs should weigh between 220 and 290

lbs. on July sale day.

Seller must participate in a preview show

or workshop on June 1st..

Swine Requirements

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Swine Requirements, continued

Rate of gain will be calculated

between weigh-in and July 18th sale

date.

Hogs must be born after January 1,

2019 to sell.

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Ham Requirements

Ham enrollment is due December 14,

2018 to the Henry County Extension

office.

Members will cure hams on January 8

at the Henry County Fairgrounds at

6:30 pm.

Hams will remain at Hetherington’s

Meat Processing plant until Saturday,

February 9.

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Ham Requirements, continued

Hams will return to Hetherington’s on approximately July 5 for smoking.

Members are responsible for all transportation of hams.

Hams will be exhibited at the Henry County Fair on July 15, 2019.

Members must participate in the Herdsmanship contest on July 15.

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Ham Requirements, continued

Hams will go to the Missouri State fair

on August 6.

Hams will return to the Henry County

Fairgrounds on August 19.

Members must clean their hams at the

fairgrounds at 3:30 pm to sell.

Enrollment forms are due to the Henry County Extension Office by April 1,

2019.

Weigh-in on Saturday, April 27, 2019 at 9 am at the Henry County

Fairgrounds.

Must participate in a preview show or workshop on June 1st.

Sheep Requirements

Rate of gain will be calculated

between weigh-in and the July 18

sale.

Lambs must weigh at least 85 lbs. to

sell.

Sheep Requirements, continued

Enrollment forms are due to the Henry County Extension Office by April 1, 2019.

Exhibitors may purchase meat rabbits no later than 5 weeks prior to the show (see

rules).

Rabbits should be tattooed.

Market rabbits must be at least 10 weeks olds to sell.

Market rabbits sell in pens of 3 that weigh 11-16 pounds total.

Rabbits sell July 18, 2019.

Rabbit Requirements

Enrollment forms are due to the Henry

County Extension Office by April 1, 2019.

Only pullets or broiler chickens can sell.

Poultry is shown in pens of four.

Poultry must be owned by exhibitor within

one week of hatching.

Ducks can be no older than 12 weeks at

sale.

Poultry will sell July 18, 2019.

Poultry Requirements

Enrollment forms are due to the Henry County Extension Office by April 1, 2019.

Weigh-in on Saturday, April 27, 2019 at 9 am at the Henry County Fairgrounds.

Must participate in a preview show or workshop on June 1st.

Only meat breed, castrated male goats less than one year old may sell.

Rate of gain will be calculated between weigh-in and July 18 sale.

Goat Requirements

Minimum commission of $20 or 4% of the

sale price (whichever is greatest) will be

withheld from the sale of all projects.

Commission used to cover operation

costs such as equipment, fees required by

judges, trophies and monetary awards, t-

shirts, photo printing, frames, copying,

mailings, etc.

Program Costs

Sellers must assist in cleanup

following auctions and check out with

a sale committee member prior to

leaving.

Failure to do so without prior

arrangement will result in penalty

fines being applied to premium

checks.

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Auction Cleanup

Buyers should be thanked in person and presented a thank you note.

A copy of the thank you note that is given to your buyer must be presented

to the Extension office beforemembers will receive their sale check.

If a copy of the thank you note is not received by two (2) weeks after

the auction the sale check will be reduced by 25%.

Thank You Notes

Members enroll by completing the

enrollment form and submitting it to the

Sale Committee by your project due date.

It must be signed by the members’

parents to be complete.

You may mail it or hand-deliver it to (MU

Extension, Courthouse, 100 W. Franklin,

Room 16, Clinton, Mo. 64735).

No enrollments will be accepted after

your project due date.

Enrollment Procedure

Members will be required to follow a

dress code during the sale.

Members must wear their sale shirt,

long pants and closed toed shoes.

Shirts must be tucked in the pants.

No hats are allowed in the show/sale

ring.

Dress Code

Individuals may show more than one carcass in the carcass show if the individual has their own

buyer the night of the regular sale.

The carcass shows will be held at Hetherington’s Meats Processing (beef) or Powell Meat Company

(other species).

Prizes are awarded by the Henry County Sale Committee to the top five carcasses per specie as

follows: Champion carcass receives $100 and 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th place carcasses receive $50,

$30, $20, $10 respectively.

If parents purchase their child’s livestock carcass they must write a check for the carcass.

Carcass Show

Have general project enrollment questions?4-H members contact the Extension Office at 660-885-5556 or henryco@missouri.edu.

FFA members contact your FFA advisor.

These rules are written and enforced by the Henry County Sale Committee.Members include:

Jeff Harrelson 660-620-7640 Paul Wilson 660-885-3950 Allen Wilkins 660-885-6101

Megan Dohrman 660-499-2239 Laura Cooley 660-647-3106 Kathalee Cole 660-693-4812

Eric Dameron 660-909-9903 Lori Hill 660-492-0180 Clint Johnson 660-351-2514

Dan Wallace 660-885-5767 Jennifer Kiely 660-885-3095 Taylor Bush