114 Market Sheep & Goats Weighed for Clayton County Fair

Clayton County 4-H and FFA members enrolled a total of 74 lambs and 40 meat goats at the weigh-in held May 5 at the fairgrounds in National.  These lambs and meat goats are now eligible to compete in the market show at the Clayton County Fair on August 3, 2012.   Daily rate-of-gain will be determined on the lambs and goats.  This will be used in the evaluation of the project by the judge at the fair. 

 There were 17 4-H’ers and FFA members who tagged market lambs this year.  This is down 3 youth and up 18 lambs from last year.  17 youth participated in the goat weigh-in, which is up one youth and up 4 goats.

 34 lambs were also verified to exhibit at the Iowa State Fair in August.   Retinal imaging was used to identify these animals.