Hood River County
4-H Newsletter
March 2016
Meet Liana Harden
Hood River County’s New 4-H Agent
The daughter of a naturalist, Liana was raised touring and exploring the
biodiversity of North America. On the plains of Oklahoma and the high
desert of New Mexico she worked in market gardening and livestock. In
2011, Liana worked in the Mississippi Delta with the Delta Garden Study
teaching science and health through gardening.
Interests - gardening, cooking, observing nature, and playing music with
friends. Her instrument is Banjo.
Education
 Bachelor of Arts in History and Environmental Studies, University of
Oklahoma
 Master of Science degree in Leadership for Sustainability Education,
Portland State University
Reminder to College or
Voc Ed Bound Seniors
4-H Scholarship Applications and your
record or memory book are due in the
Extension Office by April 1st for consideration by the Scholarship Committee.
Liana currently works for OSU and is finishing up a grant project in St.
Helens. She will be attending some Hood River events and meetings between April and June. She will join our county program full time starting
July 1st.
WANTED
2015 County Fair Pictures
Inside this newsletter:
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Large Animal Pre-Fair Weigh In....................... 2
Open Scale Dates................................................... 2
Small Animal Information .................................. 3
Leaders Meetings .................................................. 3
Record Book Trainings ........................................ 3
Other Events of Interest ...................................... 4
Each year 4-H submits pictures of the previous year’s county
fair to the fair book printer. This year the office is short of photographs. If you have pictures of 4-H members and their projects, your submission of the picture as a file is appreciated.
Please email photos as soon as possible. to
[email protected].
LARGE LIVESTOCK WEIGH-INS
Hood River County Fairgrounds Barn Area
BEEF ONLY PRE-FAIR WEIGH-IN
Saturday, March 5th
8:00 a.m. to 9:30 a.m
MANDATORY – All market beef are required to attend.
LARGE ANIMAL PRE-FAIR WEIGH-IN
Saturday, May 7th
Starting at 8:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.
MANDATORY – All market sheep, swine and goats are required to attend.
PLEASE NOTE – to enter the Fairgrounds, please use the entry off of Summit Drive and follow the road to the north gate
to enter and approach the scales. Follow signs to the scale. If you have a goat or lamb, park your vehicle on the east
side of the livestock barn and walk them on a leash to the scale for weighing.
There will be NO early weigh-in appointments. Goats, sheep and swine will be weighed in the order they arrive.
10:00 to 10:30 a.m. - Market beef may be weighed to check current weight. (Please call the Extension Office to let us
know if you are coming.)
REMEMBER:
 all market sheep, swine and goats are required to be weighed and tagged. If the 4-H/FFA member is not able to
attend, they must request permission to have someone else bring their animal to re-fair. A written request is due
on May 5th to the Extension Office.
 Members may weigh 2 animals of each species at pre-fair. You must determine BEFORE fair which animal will come
to fair. Records must be kept on both animals.
 Both animals you are weighing are required to have a COOL form turned in at pre-fair. Forms are required to be
signed by the person you purchased your animal from. As the animal goes into the scales, tell the clerk your name,
give them the COOL form and identify the animal as 4-H or FFA.
 All animals will be tagged with an auction tag. Sheep and goats will also be tagged with a scrapies tag.
 Make sure pigs ears are clean before you come to pre-fair; then, at pre-fair each 4-H’er is required to rewash their
pig’s ears with disinfectant before they are tagged. After tagging, it is the responsibility of the 4-H’er to check your
animal’s ear each day for at least two weeks. If you see swelling, bleeding, drainage or smell, clean the tagged area
with a disinfectant like an iodine solution and possibly a little fly spray. After two weeks the tagged area should be
healed, if you continue to have a problem contact your veterinarian.
OPEN SCALE DATES
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Wednesday, May 25 at 5:00 pm
Saturday, June 11 at 8:00 am
Wednesday, June 22 at 5:00 pm
Saturday, July 9 at 8:00 am
Wednesday, July 20 at 5:00 pm
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Small Animal Knowledge Bowl
Small Animal Pre-Fair
SMALL ANIMAL SKILL-A-THON
Sunday, April 10 1:30 - 4:00 p.m.
Hood River County Fairgrounds – Summit Building
July 9th at 8:00 a.m.
Fairgrounds
If you or your club would like to help with this event, please contact Julianna Dolan
by Thursday, March 17th at 541-806-9193 or [email protected].
All small animal exhibits that
will be staying at county fair
need to attend and go
through a health check.
Watch for more information.
LEADERS MEETINGS
All meetings are held at the Hood River County Extension Annex meeting room unless otherwise noted.
MARCH 17TH
Small & Large Combined Animal Project Leaders Meeting - 6:00 p.m.
Quarterly Leaders Association Meeting
April 19th 6:00 p.m.
County Fair Camping Trailer Lottery - Each club whose members are eligible to stay overnight at fair
must have a leader present for the drawing. Other leaders may NOT draw for your club. Camping applications will be available in late March. Leaders must bring completed camping applications and fees with
them to this meeting. Watch for additional details the week of March 24th.
RECORD BOOK TRAININGS
There is a very nice online self-paced record book training on the Hood River County 4-H webpage. If you need help
with just one particular record, you can choose to watch the information for only that record. While created for leaders, this presentation could be used by parents or at 4-H meetings. Here’s the link - then on the website click on
“Record Book Training Tutorial for Leaders”.
(NOTE: If CTRL+click link above doesn’t work for you, paste the following web address into your browser:
http://extension.oregonstate.edu/hoodriver/hood-river-county-4-h-policies)
FAMILY & CONSUMER SCIENCE SKILL CONTESTS
Saturday, March 12th from 10am - 1:30pm (approximate times)
Extension Annex Meeting Room
Fair competitions in Cooking, Clothing, Knitting and Crochet projects. Classes for Cloverbuds, too.
Information was sent via email to those enrolled in the Family & Consumer Science projects.
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State Poultry Judging Contest & Avian Bowl Contest
Changes are afoot……...
OSU campus, at the Oldfield Animal Teaching Facility (OATF)
Saturday May 7, 2016.
The State 4-H Poultry Judging Contest and an Avian Bowl contest will be held on Saturday, May 7th on the OSU Oldfield
Animal Teaching Factility. Dr. James Hermes, OSU Extension Poultry Specialist and Dr. Brigid McCrea, Extension Poultry
Specialist at Delaware State University will supervise these events. The senior winning teams from these contests have
the opportunity to compete in the National Poultry Judging and Avian Bowl contests that are held in Louisville KY in midNovember each year.
If poultry is your special project, this is an opportunity to pick the brains of two experts. There will not be a judging contest at state fair this year.
Look for more information and a flyer in the future.
What do you call a sleeping bull? A bull-dozer.
Why do cows wear bells? Because their horns don’t work.
What do you call it when one cow spies on another cow? A steak-out
Mt. Hood Classic Lamb and Goat Jackpot Show
The first ever Mt. Hood Classic Lamb & Goat Jackpot Show will be held on June
11th at the Hood River County Fairgrounds. Entries close June 1st.
More information may be found at :
www.mthoodclassicjackpot.com or contact [email protected].
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