The 2013 Entry Guide Registration is now available!

Rules & Regulations

• State Rules for California Fairs
• Junior Livestock Rules
• AV Fair Local Rules
• Livestock Safety Committee
• Governor’s Letter
• Secretary Ross Letter
• Junior Livestock Council Bylaws
• Junior Livestock Ethics List

Farm & Garden

• Alfalfa is King 2013
  A contest of the best Alfalfa Farmers of the Antelope Valley. Alfalfa Hay, Grain Hay (Barley Hay, Oat Hay, and Mixed Hay). East verses West!
• Bees and Honey 2013
  All Types of Bees, and their products- Honey (creamed, crystallized), Honey Comb, Chunked, and Extracting Frames.
• FFA Nursery
  As an integral part of their agriculture experience they must have grown exhibits for the FFA program. Nursery products, Horticulture Crafts, Floral Designs, and Landscape Designs.
• FFA Mechanics
  FFA projects include woodworking, sheet metal welding, forging, electrical, rope and Record books.
• Floriculture
  Plants, indoors and outdoors. Flowers Dried, Silk, and Fresh. Come and enter the wonderful world of floriculture!
• Horticulture
  All things grown (except Flowers),Vegetables, Fruits, Seeds, Nuts, Roots, Bulbs, Dried and Fresh. Including monstrosities and unusual shape vegetables!
• Scarecrows
  Big and Small ( see rules for limits). Mechanical, themed, Fun and Cute. (must be self-supporting).
• Wheelbarrows & Mailboxes & Birdhouses
  Wheelbarrows, Mailboxes and Birdhouses, skies the limit on your imagination for outdoor décor and landscaping!
• Wool
  All wool types; Sheep, Llamas, and Alpacas. Two entries per class.

Home Arts

• 4H Home Arts
  4-H age range from 5 years to 19 years old, it is a voluntary educational program under the supervision of the UC Cooperative Extension.
• Antique Glass
  Antique Glass and China, Pressed, Cut, Hand blown, Ceramic, China, Pottery, Depression glass. Personal items, household items, Toys, Kitchen.
• Baked Goods and Confections
  All Cakes, Cookies, Candy, Breads. Holiday and Favorites, even Healthy Food! Get Baking!
• Special Theme and Bling
  Your challenge is to “Bling” set items, such as shoes, hats, sunglasses, etc. Use your imagination glitter, sequins, and rhinestones anything to out “Bling” the rest.
• Canned and Preserved Foods
  Jams, jellies, marmalades, canned and pickled (vegetables, fruits, relishes, salsas) dried herbs, jerky, vegetables, soups, and trail mixes.
• Ceramics & Pottery 2013
  Ceramics Kiln Fired, Bisque / Hydrocal (Figurines, Animals, under glaze), Pottery, or Clay (hand built or wheel thrown).
• Clothing and Textiles
  Any sewn item ranging from clothing to quilts and cross-stitch. Hand Spun Yarns, Rugs, Weaving, Novelties, Crocheted, Knitted, Embroidered, and Quilted items.
• Collection Boxes
  A displayed box filled with a themed collection of Dolls, Sports items, Personal Accessories, etc. Do as an individual, group, club, or family!
• Dolls
  Antique, Modern, Miniature, Porcelain, Cloth, Leather, Wood, Clay, or Felt. Also includes Teddy Bears!
• Gem & Mineral
  Collection or single items of all Gems and Minerals in Raw or Polished Forms, Faceted Stones, Cabochons, Geodes and / or Nodules, Mineral Specimens, Fossils, Petrified Wood, Jewelry and Beading.
• Grange
  Grange Juniors and Youth age ranges 5 years to 19 years old. Educating and supporting youth, and the public in the role of agriculture, good sportsmanship and ethical behavior.
• Handicraft
  This covers a large area; Photo pages / Albums, Tole Painting, Stained Glass and Glass Crafts, Leather Crafts, Carving, Pen and Ink, Models, Tree Decorating, Lego / K’Nex, School Projects, and much more!
• Miniatures
  World of Miniatures, Houses, Furniture, Floral items, Accessories, Villages, all in 1 in,1/2 in,1/4 in, and 144” scales!
• Special Baking Contest
  Bring your baked or prepared item during the scheduled Fair night and get your goodies judged in front of a live audience. Entry is your admission to Fair!
• Table Settings
  Any Table setting / or Tray setting. Done Formal to Casual, or following themes set by the Chairperson.
• Wearable Art Fashion Show
  A homemade wearable garment, anything goes; painted, glued on, you embellish to make your own piece of wearable art. Garment is modeled in the Fashion Show worn by anyone you wish!
• Fine Arts
  Showcase your drawn, painted or sculptured artwork. Watercolor, Pastel, Graphite, Mixed Media even China Painting... Even youth can display their prized artwork!
• Photography
  Capture the wonderful world around us in print and digital photographs. Areas include black and white, action, nature, portrait, weddings and desert wildflowers!

Junior Livestock

• Showmanship
  Use your Jr. Market animals, only way to make it into Master/Round Robin showmanship, The best of the best!
• Market Meat Pens
  Meat pen Turkey (1 tom & hen), Chickens (2), Rabbits (3), Fryer Rabbit (1); Top 4 pens sell at auction, and get Buckles!
• Market Large Livestock
  Jr. Market species, will be sold at auction. All exhibitors must submit DNA packets for all animals.
• Junior Barrow Show
  Open to all Jr. Exhibitors with Barrow pigs, Extra chance to win a buckle!
• Educational Exhibit
  Educational displays done by each club in each species, educate and show club pride!
• Club Group Competition
  4-H, FFA, & Grange compete to show which club has the best animals.
• Beef Fitting Contest
  A 2 hour event to completely fit a beef heifer from start to finish! Jr. & Sr. Teams of 2 people per team.
• 4-H Dog Show
  Fun Obedience, Tricks, and Costume Shows; Also open to FFA & Grange.
• Open Pygmy Goat Show
  Open/Youth registered shows, NPGA Sanctioned shows. Also a Mini-exhibitor (5yrs.-9yrs.) costume contest, w/any small goat.

Open Livestock

• Beef Heifer Show
  Open Breeding Heifer and Calf show. Come show how good your genes are!
• Desert Premiere Boer Goat Show
  Open Breeding Boer Goat Show, ABGA Sanction only. Come earn show points!
• Lads & Lassies Lead
  Costume Contest for yourself and your lamb, you DO NOT have to make the costume from scratch. Can piece together pre-made articles.
• Open Lamb Classic
  Open to all exhibitors, come show your lamb and earn some extra prize money!
• Laying Hen Egg Contest
  Bring in your prized egg layer, we record how many eggs she lays a day, win a 50 lb. Bag of chicken feed!
• Open Llama Show
  Open to Llamas with ALSA papers. Halter, Performance, and Display Shows.
• NDGA Nigerian Goat Show
  Nigerian Dwarf Goat Association only, must have proper NDGA Sanction papers.
• Open Dairy Goat Show
  American Dairy Goat Association Sanction; Youth & 2 Ring Open shows, youth exhibitors can enter in both departments
• Open Sheep Show
  Open Registered & Unregistered Sheep Show. Come show off your breeding stock!
• Open Poultry Show
  Have a chicken? Bring it into the show and you could win a ribbon or prize money! Judged by separate breed standards.
• Open Pygmy Goat Show
  Open/Youth National Pygmy Goat Association Sanctioned Shows.
• Swine Classic
  Open to all Barrow & Gilts, exhibitors can use back-up pigs from the Jr. Shows, a chance to win prize money and Buckles!
• Open Rabbit Show

Tentative Livestock Show Schedule

•   Tentative Livestock Show Schedule

Scholarship
App

•   Scholarship App