Freestone County Fair Information:
Freestone County Fair June 12-17, 2023 Follow Freestone County Fair Association on Facebook and on their website: http://fcfar.org
- Judges:
- Market Sheep & Goats-Bucky Jackson
- Breeding Sheep & Goats-Luke Parr
- Market Swine-Ian Schaefer
- Breeding Swine—Dr David Frazier
- Heifers-Payton Meuth
- Market Steers-Greg Clark (updated as of 5/29/23)
2023 Freestone County Fair Livestock Show schedule only
Ag Mechanics:2023 Freestone County Ag Mech Rules
Each member of a team will need to add their information in Fair Entry and submit their entry online.
Preparing for County Fair:
To help you decide what to show at county fair: Deciding what to show at County Fair 2023
Livestock Project guides:
Resources and links for feeding-Freestone Co 4-H
Livestock project resources (2023 full list of Remind posts January 9-June 8)
Lindner Product Guide_Nov ’21_HR
Moormans swine show feed guide
Feeding Show lambs-Freestone Co 4-H
Feeding Show Goats-Freestone Co 4-H
Swine Project Basics-Fact sheet
Leon CO Rabbit-Breeder-List-updated-August-2020
Rabbit Breeders for Freestone County Fair
Nutrition-and-Feeding-of-Show-Poultry
L-5537-Getting-Stared-With-Show-Broilers-2012
If you need help finding a project or help with your project please reach out to Erin Davis-County Extension Agent.
Quality Counts:
Quality Counts (only need to complete once for each age division; Junior 3rd-5th grade, Intermediate 6th-8th grade, Senior 9th-12th grade) correct age division and an active Quality counts number is required for participation at the Freestone County Fair, this must be completed by June 12th.
- **There is a very important one-pager with detailed instructions of how students should enroll/login to the course. **QC Enrollment
- Exhibitors will first be required to engage in the full learning content before being presented with the verification exam.
- Please be aware of this in advance as this could take around two hours for most students to complete the full content and test.
- Exhibitors will be able to start and revisit the curriculum as many times as needed.
- Exhibitors will have to complete the test once it is started.
- Exhibitors must achieve 80% or great to pass the exam, but can take it as many times as needed.
- Exhibitors will be exposed and tested on the content potentially three times in their livestock showing career: junior (grade 3-5), intermediate (grade 6-8), and senior (grade 9-12).
- Exhibitors will access the course and exam at: https://www.texaslivestockvalidation.com/qc/qcregister.aspx
- Exhibitors will first be required to engage in the full learning content before being presented with the verification exam.
IMPORTANT: One thing to be aware of is that login to the curriculum site requires unique email addresses for each user. This is explained further in the attachment. We realize there will be cases of families with multiple youth and limited email addresses. If the family cannot use a parent email, create one, or use a student email address, we will assist on a case-by-case basis.
