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June 2018

Dates to Remember: YQCA Training—June 7th

Events Council Meeting—June 7th

State Geology Field Trip—June 8-10th

Camp OzSome—June 13-16th

All other Livestock Nominations are Due to

State Office—June 15th

FAIR ENTIRES DUE—

June 28th

LATE Fair Entry Deadline—July 5th

Campference—June 26-29th

Visit us on the Web:

www.shawnee.ksu.edu

Candis Meerpohl

4-H Youth Development Agent [email protected] 785-232-0062 ext.120

Kim Seeley

4-H Program Assistant [email protected] 785-232-0062 ext.112

Fran McAdoo

4-H Office Assistant

[email protected] 785-232-0062 ext.111

A Word From Your Agent... Hello 4-H Families!

Summer is in full swing and I’m hoping everyone has their fair book and fair entry form

by now. If not please call our office immediately. Fair Entries are due on June 28th

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your entry is received after that date there is a $25 per entry late fee. No entries can be

accepted after July 5th. We would be happy to accept your entries now!!

Your entries can be mailed to the office and we will use June 28th postmark to deter-

mine if they are in on time. If you do this I recommend paying for a certified letter with

receipt. If you drop your entry form into the mailbox outside and the mail has already

been picked up for the 28th a 29

th postmark will make all of your entries late. Those en-

tries will incur the fee if you choose to still enter.

Please take the time out of your busy summer schedule and complete them now! You

can mail, fax, e-mail or walk them in. If you e-mail your entries it must be a scanned

image of the entry card. Do not write them into the body of an e-mail, we will not accept

them that way. If you can make a template that MATCHES the entry form that would be

acceptable. If you e-mail or fax your entries it is your responsibility to call and confirm

that they have been received.

Again, this year the fair entry software did not print self-determined projects specific

names on the entry card. If you are enrolled in welding, cake decorating or construction

zone your card will probably just say self-determined. If you are not sure which of these

projects you are enrolled in you can go into 4-H online yourself and look up your pro-

jects. Let our office know if you have questions.

Please also look at the fair schedule because some events and judging times have

been moved. There is one mistake on the schedule for Wildlife. Both Entry and Judging

is Thursday, July 26th

from 3-5pm.

Lots of good reminders in this issue of the chatterbox, please look at the calendar in the

back to make sure you are not missing out on anything.

Have a Safe and Fun 4-H Summer! Hope to see many of you at Rock Springs 4-H

Camp June 13th-16

th!

~Candis

Dogs & Horses---Write down the name of your animal on your fair entry on the Breed/

Tag# line please.

Rabbits---- Your rabbit breeds and corresponding three digit ID can be found on the

Shawnee County website: www.shawnee.ksu.edu Don’t forget to include your tattoo ID

on your entry form.

Chickens---You will need to write down your band numbers please. Bands can be pur-

chased at the 4-H office.

All other Livestock---Please remember to include your animal’s tag number.

http://www.shawnee.k-state.edu/4-h/

https://www.facebook.com/Shawnee-County-4-H-81677171828/?ref=aymt_homepage_panel

http://www.shawnee.k-state.edu/4-h/2016%20rabbit%20code%20sheet.pdf


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Horse Show, June 2nd & 3rd

YQCA Training, June 5th

Events Council Meeting, June 7th

State Geology Field Trip, June 8th-10th

Camp OzSome Counselors Depart, June 9th

Camp OzSome, June 13th-16th

Livestock Meeting, June 13th

All Other Livestock Nominations Due to State

Office, June 15th

FAIR ENTRIES ARE DUE, June 28th

LATE Fair Entries Due, July 5th

Mark Your Calendar!

Pollorum Testing (Mandatory for all Poultry),

July 10th

Campference, June 27th-30th

Clothing Judging & Fashion Revue

Judging, July 20th

4-H Photo Mounting, July 18th

Shawnee County Horse Fair, July 21th-22th

Photography Judging, July 22nd

Shawnee County Fair, July 26th-29rd

Livestock Market News

This year the Livestock Committee has decided to change the minimum auction weight requirements for

BEEF and GOATS. The new minimum auction weight for beef is 1,000 lbs. The new minimum for

goats to be sold at auction is 50 lbs. This has been changed to reflect industry standards for “complete” ani-

mals. The minimum weight for sheep and swine will stay the same at 100 lbs. and 220 lbs. respectively. Su-

perintendents/Livestock Committee hold ultimate discretion. If you have any questions please contact Candis

at [email protected] or 785-232-0062 ext. 120.

All 4-Her’s planning to sell market beef, sheep, swine, goat, poultry, or rabbits at the county fair must turn in a

completed market buyers form into the office by June 28th. We ask that each youth contact at least 3

potential buyers. You can call, write a letter or stop by and talk to potential buyers about the livestock sale

and the animals you will be exhibiting.

Contacting buyers is an important part of selling your market animals. Marketing your livestock project to

potential buyers not only helps bring people to the sale but it also helps buyers understand the amount of

time and energy you have put into your livestock project. We encourage youth to contact at least 1 new buy-

er every year. In doing this our hope is that new businesses or individuals will come and participate in the

sale.

The buyers’ forms are located in your fair book on page 59.

Every buyer you turn in will be invited to attend the Family Fun Night Dinner, which will be held on Saturday,

July 28nd. Please call with any questions.


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Capitol Plaza Hotel Rooms are reserved for the Shawnee County

Fair get yours today! $74 a night!

Reservations can be made online at www.capitolplazahoteltopeka.com Click on “Reservations” and you will be redirected to reservations page. Select “Group Code” and enter code SNCO for the discounted rate. Once the code is entered, you will be able to select the dates and book your reservation. OR, call the hotel directly at (800) 579-7937 (please mention you are part of Shawnee County Fair Assn or group code SNCO). Or - Direct links to reservations (no group code required):

Pollorum Testing

Pullorum testing for all poultry is mandatory for the 2018 Shawnee County Fair. This year testing will take place July 10th from 5 to 7pm. We get some shade this year as testing will be held in the back of the horse stall barn. You should still park in the Exten-sion Office parking lot. If you have any questions regarding the testing, please give me a call.

Photo Mounting Party The Photography project’s Photo Mounting Party is coming up! It’s taking place July 18th from 6:30 to 8:00pm in the Extension Meeting Room. Bring your photos and a mat board for each photo. Photos cannot be smaller than 7 x 9 inches or larger than 8 x 10 inches in size. The boards (11 x 12 1/2 inches) can be purchased from the Extension office, $1 per board. This event is come and go. We’ll have people ready to work with you whenever you can get in. Don’t have any photos ready to mount? Come in anyway, and see how it’s done! Got questions? Contact the Extension office, Kathleen Ramonda, or Jason Schulz for more information.

http://www.capitolplazahoteltopeka.com/


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Community Blood Drive - DA

Open to the public, we have a Community Blood Drive Bank Donor Bus! This is located by the dock area

(DA) at the fair. (July 27)Sign up via the Shawnee County Fair Facebook Page or website. Walk-in are always

welcome!! Thank you for your help.


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State Livestock Nomination Deadline Approaching

State Livestock Nominations Due June 15

All state livestock nominations must be postmarked by June 15, 2018. This includes commercial

heifers, market swine, commercial gilts, market lambs, commercial ewes, and all meat goats. Fami-

lies are encouraged to use the specie checklists as a guide.

This is a postmark deadline, but families are encouraged to submit their nominations early to avoid

missing the deadline! Market and commercial female livestock projects that will be shown at the

Kansas State Fair or Kansas Junior Livestock Show must be nominated to enter and exhibit in the

state shows this fall.

The 2018 nomination information has been distributed to county offices and may be found on the

Youth Livestock Program website. Confirmation letters will be sent to families once their nominations

have been processed, and reports will regularly be posted on the Youth Livestock Program website.

Families are encouraged to use one of these options to verify their nominations. A complete nomina-

tion does NOT constitute show entry. The Kansas State Fair and KJLS will release entry information

to agents and through their respective websites as entry season draws near.

YQCA – Thing has changed a bit this year. We are having a training on June 5. For full information please

check out our Shawnee County Extension Newsletter. Here is the link http://www.shawnee.k-state.edu/news/May%202018%20Ext%20News.pdf

http://www.shawnee.k-state.edu/news/May%202018%20Ext%20News.pdf

http://www.shawnee.k-state.edu/news/May%202018%20Ext%20News.pdf


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Auburn 4-H Club May Report

By: Amanda Miller

Success at the Annual Master Gardeners’ Plant Sale

On Saturday, May 5th the Auburn 4-H Club was given a wonderful opportunity to get some volunteer hours in,

as well as raise some money for the club at the annual Master Gardener’s Plant sale. 4-Her’s were able to aid their com-

munity by helping customers of the plant sale carry out their plants to their cars when the customer’s purchases grew to

be too heavy or too numerous for one person to carry alone. When 4-Hers weren’t helping customers carry plants, they

were aiding at the Auburn 4-H Club Concessions Stand, which was set up just outside of the Master Gardener’s plant

sale. The booth was selling a variety of homemade baked goods (with everything from homemade breads and cakes to

cinnamon rolls) as well as several handmade crafts. The handmade crafts included bath bombs, hand painted lavender

Mason jars, hot/cold bags and hand crafted cards. Being able to simultaneously aid the community and raise money for

the Auburn 4-H Club made for a very successful day.

Salute to Graduating Seniors

The Auburn Club also recognized four graduating Seniors during the May Club meeting. Abby Scheideman, Amanda

Miller, Kelly Palmer and Tamara McConnell were honored for their leadership and service to the Club, Shawnee County

and the community. Each member also received a special gift to remind them of the 4-H pledge as then open the next

Chapter in their life journey.


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CALLING ALL POULTRY MEMBERs

I would like to thank our 4-H poultry youth and their families for all the work they did with their 2017 poultry projects at the fair. Hopefully each of you learned a new thing or two, whether it was receiving feedback from our judge on how your poultry was scored or during your showmanship presentation. The time is fastly approaching for this years 2018 Fair and there are a cou-ple of dates I would like to inform you of and also seeking some "helping hands".

Poultry Testing for this year will be done on Tuesday evening July 10 from 5pm - 7pm at the extension office parking lot. We will actually be just inside the arena barn off of the parking lot to stay out of the direct sun, but you will still park at the extension office and you will see us set up. Please make sure that you and/or someone else with you will be able to handle and hold your birds for the testing procedure. Also, it will probably be very hot out so make sure your birds have shade and water for the ride over and back home.

REMEMBER: you will not be able to show your birds in the Shawnee County Fair without having a certificate of proof that the pullorum testing was done within 3 weeks of the fairs date. If you have them tested at another location, you will still need to pro-vide the certificate the first day of the fair prior to entering the building with your birds. This service is being provided to us again this year by the state of Kansas free of charge.

Cage Set Up Day is Wednesday, July 25th from 5pm - 7pm (or sooner if we have enough helpers). We ask that all poultry fami-lies try to help out with this if at all possible.

If you have any questions, please give me (Donna Braden) a call at 785-249-0862 or email the extension office and they will for-ward me the message.


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Paw Prints Club

Getting Our Paws Dirty for Responsible Dog Ownership Day

By: Amanda Miller

This year, on Sunday, June 3rd, the Topeka Kennel Club is hosting an event to help dog owners bond with their dogs, learn

how to best care for their pets, and potentially try something new with their canine partners. It takes place out at the Lake Shawnee Shelter House #6, is free, and runs from 10 am-2 pm. There will be many informational booths and opportunities to meet different dog breeds to find the type of dog which would be most fitting for a family's lifestyle. There will also be drawings for prizes and a pulled pork lunch served for participants. As well as a free lunch there will be a flyball demo (a relay race be-tween two teams of four dogs involving hurdles and a flyball box pedal ball launcher) and a dog agility demonstration brought by

Indian Creek Club Indian Creek started their May meeting by having a Hawaiian theme. Many members dressed up with flower leis and grass skirts. During the meeting, we split up into committee groups and discussed hay bale decorations, the pancake feed, and our 48 Hours of 4-H project. We also talked about our June meeting, which will be at the pool. The whole club is excited! Also, many of our members are going to 4-H camp and Discovery Days! By Gwen VanLeeuwen, Reporter


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Horse Club

On Wednesday, May 9th, the Shawnee Co Horse Club held our 3rd clinic of the year. Whitney Marrant, from Missouri was the clinician. She trains in reining (which is was was worked on at the clinic) and ranch horse. We spent a lot of time in the saddle working on exercises that we were given. This was a very good instructional time and a lot was learned. We are all getting ready for the first horse show coming up in June.


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Let’s go dancing!! Hey 4-Hers grab your partner and come do-sa-do and promenade. Larry Crady, with the Wheatheart Squares here in Topeka, will be calling out the moves with members of the Northeast Kansas Square Danc-ers. Saturday, July 28th from 3 to 4pm 4-H youth will be learning the fundamentals of modern square danc-ing including the square dance formation, terminology, and a half dozen of the basic square dance move-ments. When finished they will be able to perform a basic dance. This is similar to what people would learn during the first night of square dance lessons. This is a free event for all 4-H youth, (preferable ages 12 and up). Please email Fran at [email protected] or Kim at [email protected] so the group knows what to plan for.

RABBITS RABBITS RABBITS All rabbits will need a tattoo to show in the fair in July. If you need the rabbit tattooed please come to the monthly meetings on June 4th and July 2nd. We have asked that someone be available to tattoo, but I need to know who and how many. Please contact the Superintendent of rabbits @ [email protected] or the county extension office. Rabbit codes for the fair book have also been emailed out for your rabbits breeds. If you have questions please come the the meeting this Monday and we can help you enroll in fair. Thank you Stephanie Magill

mailto:[email protected]




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All dates and activities are subject to change.

June

5/29 - 6/1 Discovery Days

1-3 4-H Horse Show

4 Bunny Bunch 7:00pm, EMR

5 YQCA Training, 5:30 p.m., EMR

6 Geology, DM 118 Stuffs Hall 7:00pm

7 Events Council Meets 7:00pm, EMR

7 Exchange 7:00pm, FB

8-10 State Geology Field Trip, Northeast Kansas

12 Camp OzSome Counselors Departure

12 Extension Council Exec. Board 5:30pm, EMR

13-16 Camp OzSome, Summer Camp

13 Livestock Committee, 7:00pm, CR

15 All other Livestock Nominations Due to the

State Office

21 Shooting Sports II, 7:00pm, EMR

22 Exchange Host

25 Chatterbox Articles Due

25 Paw Prints, 7:00 p.m., EMR

26 Fair Board,7:00 p.m., EMR

26-29 Campference

27 Fair Board, 7:00 p.m., EMR

28 District Horse Show

28 Fair Entries due by 5:00 p.m. (with fee)

28 Horse Club

29 Exchange Host

July

2 Bunny Bunch 7:00pm, EMR

4 Office Closed/4th of July

5 Last Day for Late Fair Entries

5 Exchange 7:00pm, Farm Bureau

6 District Horse Show, LP

10 Pollorum Testing 5:00-7:00

11 Livestock Committee, 7:00pm, EMR

11 Extension Council Exec. Board 5:30pm, EMR

12 Fair Superintendents Meeting 7:00pm, EMR

12 Livestock Committee, 7:00 p.m., CR

18 4-H Photo Mounting, 6:30 - 8:00

20 Shawnee County Fair Clothing & Fashion Revue, Lohman United Methodist Church

21-22 Shawnee County Fair 4-H Horse Show, LP

22 County Fair Photography Judging, Manor Conference Center

23 Load in

23 Paw Prints, 7:00pm, EMR

24 Fair Board, 7:00pm EMR

24 Chatterbox Articles Due

26-29 Shawnee County Fair Activities, Kansas Expocenter

30 Load out


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