Rabbit and poultry IDs and pictures are due on 4HOnline on July 1.
Click here for the Animal Care and Housing Form. If you haven’t completed this form for 2024, please do so. On the form you will need a premises ID of where your animals are housed. To find the premises ID, click here.
Fair Entry for the Larimer County Fair is open! The deadline to enter is Monday, July 8 at 11:59 p.m.
The link is larimercountyfair.fairentry.com. Log in using the 4HOnline account for your family.
The payment portal link for members who are showing livestock, dog, horse, poultry, or rabbits is found by clicking here.
The premium books for the 2024 Larimer County Fair are posted. These documents outline all of the divisions and classes available for each project, including what is required for submission and the class numbers to enter in the fair. Be sure to watch for Junior (8–10), Intermediate (11–13), and Senior (14–18) age divisions.
All members will see a screen with questions about livestock projects. Livestock members are required to complete this page, but all others can skip past it.
Those with Livestock should be sure to include your premise ID.
Scheduling a slot for interview judging is done within Fair Entry. After entering each of your projects, choose to Edit each project and find an appropriate time slot with a judge for the proper project and unit. We encourage members to participate in interview judging—it’s a great learning experience! However, members are not required to schedule an interview to enter their projects in the fair.
Tip: Take note of the times for each of your member’s interviews!
Be sure to include all members and all projects before you submit! Once submitted, edits must be made manually with The Ranch’s fair office.
If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask via email at info@hch4h.org or via phone or text at 970-672-7368.
Registration for county shoots is now open. Go to the Shooting Sports website at LC4HSS.org to find the link and sign up for each of the disciplines.
If you have any questions, email info@LC4HSS.org.
Reminder: Don’t forget the upcoming deadlines for uploading Animal IDs. If you have any questions, please check your project letter for your project or reach out and ask.
Market Livestock Members: Mark these dates on your calendar now! Weigh days and tagging are REQUIRED to be eligible to show at the Larimer County Fair. If you can’t be there, you must arrange for someone to bring your animal.
Weigh Days will be held at the Youth and Community Building at The Ranch. Tagging supplies for swine will be available at the extension office starting on April 1.
Members enrolled in any market and/or breeding livestock project for the first time MUST attend a Colorado 4-H Meat Quality Assurance (MQA) program, regardless of age. 4-H members must attend a Colorado 4-H MQA program a minimum of twice during their 4-H career, once as a junior and again after becoming a senior 4-H member.
Watch for more information coming in January from the extension office for your project. And if you have any questions, please ask!
🍀 New to 4-H and wondering how the year fits together and what is expected of you as a member?
🍀 Returning member and you don’t want to miss a deadline?
We have a checklist for our HCH club members that includes dates, deadlines, and requirements so you can get organized for 2024!
Grab a PDF of the checklist that you can print for yourself:
Color Version
Black/White Version
(This version has been updated as of December 23, 2023. We will post updated versions if/when there are any changes in dates.)
For members who are showing animals and livestock this year, be sure to complete the IDs on 4HOnline by the May 1 Deadline.
It’s time to place orders for our new High Country Handiworkers shirts! We have t-shirts, hoodies, and zipper hoodies available in sizes for youth and adults. The shirts will be Royal Blue.
Each 4-H Member, Cloverbud, and Leader is eligible for one t-shirt OR one discounted hoodie supplied by the HCH Club.
The club covers the cost of a t-shirt for each club member, Cloverbud member, and leader at $13 each. This can be $13 for the entire cost of a t-shirt. Or the club will pay $13 toward a hoodie or zipper hoodie and you are responsible for the difference of $9 or $14.
Any additional items for members/leaders, and items for parents and siblings who are not members or leaders, are available for order at full price.
All orders must be submitted by the end of the day on April 28, 2023.
Payments are accepted online by credit card or echeck. There are no additional fees for online payments. Or you can bring cash or check to club leader Cindy Buckardt directly. Please make checks out to 4-H.
If you have questions, please email info@hch4h.org.
First, Cindy would like to thank everyone for their birthday wishes, flowers, and cupcakes at the club meeting. It was very special and appreciated.
I would also like to welcome all the new families who attended the meeting last Monday. We look forward to your membership and participation.
Congratulations to all the 2021–2022 High Country Handiworkers who completed their projects. Our club members completed another successful year—a job WELL DONE!
For those who did not attend the November meeting, I will bring your completion certificates and projects to the club meeting one last time in December. If I have your fair project, it would be helpful if you would come by our business, Construction Supply House at 806 North 2nd Street in Berthoud, and pick it up prior to the December meeting. It is a lot to load and unload. If I still have projects following the December 5th meeting, those projects will be disposed of on December 10th. I simply don’t have the space to store projects.
Foods will meet on December 5th prior to the club meeting starting at 6:00 p.m.
Reminder, the December Club meeting has changed to December 5. We will be doing a club community service project, so it’s very important to attend. A community service project is required of every club member. Returning members: please sign up for a demonstration. We will also be holding officer elections.
The first Cloverbuds meeting of the new 4-H year will be this Monday, November 17 at 6:30 p.m. in the McKee Building. Note the new location—we have outgrown my shop building.
