Goat Exhibitors Information
Registration Deadline is June 1st!
Pre Fair Set Up is Thursday, August 7 @ 6:00 p.m.
All goats are required to have a scrapie tag or tattoo/microchip number with matching breed registration papers listed on their entry form and in their ear by fair time. Call 517-337-4705 to get your premise ID. After you are assigned a premise ID, you’ll need to order your tags. Order tags early so they arrive on time (by June 5th)! All valid registrations must include the permanent Tattoo (as listed on registration papers) or Scrapie # entered in the online registration system or on Entry Form at time of Registration. Registration papers must be included in entry by June 1st. If registering online, download or email the papers to entry@bcyf.org.
Market Goats: Must be brought to fairgrounds for tagging on June 4th or 5th from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. If unable to attend on either date, exhibitor must notify Superintendents no later than June 1st. All goats must have ear tag in place by June 5th.
Exhibitors must call (text preferred) the Superintendent- Ryan Schwark – 269-876-0235 to state how many goats the exhibitor is actually bringing by July 18th.
See page 15 of Exhibitor Handbook for link for body scoring guidelines.
Entry Day: All goats must go through Health Check at Gate 3 (Shawnee Road) from 7:00 am and Noon on Sunday, August 10, then proceed to the Goat Barn.
After your goat project is checked in and settled at the barn, you must proceed to the entry office before 2:00 p.m. to complete your registration papers.
Fair Week: Your area of the barn is to be kept clean daily. Any exhibitor failing to keep their pen clean will fall under the 3 Strike Rule (see page 13-14 of exhibitor handbook). All pens are to be totally cleaned out before 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday.
What You Need:
- Bedding/Straw/Shavings, you are to provide your own bedding for entry day on Sunday and for the cleaning on Wednesday.
- The exhibitor is to provide feed pans, water buckets, and hay feeders for their goats. No hay nets are permitted. Feed, grain, and hay is to be provided by the exhibitor.
- The exhibitor is to provide their own clips for the pens. Please no binder twine, bungee cords, or ropes.
- A tack box is allowed for the exhibitor to keep their belongings in. Please be considerate in regards to the size of the tack box as there is a limited amount of space in the aisles.
- We ask that the exhibitor create signs to hang above their pens. They should include the exhibitor’s name and where they are from. You can also have your club name, your age, your goat’s name, or whatever you would like. The more creative the better.
Release of goats will be Sunday from 7:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. Market Goats will be loaded on trucks Saturday night as usual.
Clean up Sunday after 10:00 am is required before you leave the fairgrounds with your animals. Please bring a shovel, pitchfork, or broom to help.
Premium Checks (not auction) may be picked up on Saturday of fair from 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. or on Sunday from 8:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at the Entry Office. Checks can also be cashed at those times.