Livestock

Livestock Weigh Days, Tagging, and MQA for 2024

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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!

Register for Beef Camp / April 5–7, 2024

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Registration for Beef Camp, to be held from April 5–7, 2024, is now open. There is a cap of 20 participants for this camp. The cost is $250 per person.

If you need financial assistance to take advantage of this learning opportunity, the Junior Leadership Club and the Larimer County 4-H Foundation both have project scholarship opportunities for 4-H members. Find more information and the applications on their websites:

Junior Leadership Club Event Scholarship Request

Larimer County 4-H Foundation Funding Requests

Club Achievements 2023

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November was a time to celebrate the accomplishments of our club members and leaders over the past 4-H year at the Larimer County 4-H Achievement Night and our November club meeting. So much work and time went into making 2023 a success and we’re so proud of your efforts!

At the county fair, our club had 47 Champions and 25 Reserve Champions for a total of 72! That’s AMAZING! Of those, 18 went on to win Overall Grand Champion or Overall Reserve Grand Champion. And 13 members received the Best Record Book award.

At the Colorado State Fair, our club had 42 entries and 24 received either a Reserve Champion or a Champion and of those, 10 went on to win Overall Grand Champion or Overall Reserve Grand Champion. INCREDIBLE!

At the state level, Beau Reuhlen won Reserve Champion and Caden Powell won Champion at Rocket Fly Day. Avery Kemper took first place in the state digital photo contest.

At the state Shooting Sports competition, we had club members in the top 10 as follows: Bohdan Leppert and Paisley Dennis in Air Pistol; Tori Freeland in Air Rifle: Offhand and Paisley Dennis in Air Rifle: Utility; Willow Cameron, Genesis Rivera, Gideon Rivera, and Walker Cameron in Archery; Walker Cameron in Muzzleloading; and Walker Cameron in all 4 classes of .22 Rifle.

Our club received a Gold certificate for having 75%+ of our members complete the year, which was 80% to be exact.

We passed out completion certificates to all of the members who completed their 4-H year, and our leaders as well.

To find a listing of awards from the Larimer County Achievement Night, click here.

Jingle Bell Jackpot / December 3, 2023

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The Jingle Bell Jackpot will be hosted by Larimer County Extension, Weld County Extension, and the Colorado Junior Swine Association on December 3, 2023 at Island Grove Regional Park in Greeley. We are excited to add a Wether Dam Show for both does and ewes to this event! 

2023 Carcass Contest Results

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Thank you to all of you who attended the carcass seminar and awards night. It truly is a privilege to be in the backyard of the University, because it allows us to utilize facilities like the newly renovated CSU Meat facility. It is rare that counties are able to view carcasses from sheep, swine, and beef during the same night as carcass formula discussion. –Bailey Schilling

Here are links to the results for each species:

Beef Project Orientation / October 13, 2023

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The Beef project will kick off the new 4-H year with an orientation workshop on Friday, October 13 at 6:30 p.m. in the Loveland/Fort Collins Rooms in the McKee Building at The Ranch. This is a great opportunity to learn about different aspects of the beef project and how to be successful with your project animal.

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Carcass Seminar and Awards Night

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The Carcass Seminar and Awards Night is coming up on October 12 at 6:30 p.m. in Room 161 of the Animal Sciences Building on CSU’s campus. The address is 350 West Pitkin Street, Fort Collins, CO 80521, and the easiest access is via Pitkin from College. Pitkin does not go through to Shields. Please use the entrance on the west side of the building to get to room 161. 

Following the presentation by CSU and the awards of the top four in each species, there will be an opportunity to view lamb carcasses and tour CSU’s meat facility. 

Catch-It-Calf Program, Sponsored by Larimer County Stock Growers Association

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The Larimer County Stock Growers Association is eager to start the Catch-It-Calf program. Calves will be donated by producers in the Larimer County Livestock Growers Association. The association will accept 6 members to participate in the program for this year based on an application process. This program was created to help introduce members to the beef project and give them more practical experience with livestock handling and welfare standards. Applications will be accepted throughout the month of September—the deadline to apply is October 8, 2023. It is strongly encouraged that you become a member of the association before applying. Please send the application and any membership questions to LCSG4U@gmail.com. 

Click here for more information, and click here to download the application.

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