Major Show Entry Night is Monday October 30, 2023 from 6-7 pm for Ft Worth, San Antonio, San Angelo, Houston and Rodeo Austin. 

You need: completed Quality Counts, social security number, check for entries, and heifers/gilts need copy of registration papers. 

Livestock exhibitor meeting for anyone NEW to showing and/or projects housing at the barn will be Tuesday Sept 5th at 5:30-6:30 pm. If you need housing at the barn, please let Ms. Brown or Mrs. Martin know. If you need a stall before the livestock meeting, we can get you a stall assigned. All exhibitors housing at the barn MUST be at the livestock meeting on 9/5 at 5:30 pm.

If you want to show at a SPRING major show (Fort Worth, San Antonio, Houston, Austin etc), your animal must be STATE VALIDATED. Validation=Tag in their ear. Payment is due at the time of ordering. Cash or Check to VZCJLA.   

Lambs & Goats due Friday August 18, 2023 - $15 per head. If you validated in June, no need to re-validate in the fall unless changing ownership. Need to know quantity and type of tag (market or breeding or wether dam/doe). Validation date October TBD.

**Looking into taking lambs and goats to Fort Worth Stock Show as a school group. FW is not terminal so you could take your county wether. So if you might be interested in this or the FW breeding shows, you need to order a validation tag.**

Heifers due Thursday September 14, 2023 - $25 per head. Heifers will now be tagged similar to steers. Heifers previously validated do not need to be re-validated, unless changing ownership. Heifers need registration papers in the exhibitor's name prior to the validation date in October. Validation date October TBD.

Swine validation tag orders due September 18, 2023 - $15 per tag. Validation date TBD.

Validation dates will be announced ASAP. Validation dates are required, 1 parent and exhibitor must be present to sign paperwork. There are no make-up dates for validation. This is when the county validation committee meets to tag the animal and collect DNA. 

THIS IS NOT VALIDATION FOR VAN ZANDT COUNTY FAIR!

Make sure your child's Quality Counts is up to date before you turn in any entries for major shows and Van Zandt County Fair. We cannot pull kids out of class to complete this, but they are welcome to come in before/after school and lunch to work on it. If your child completed it last year but has moved up a division in grade level (Junior grade 3-5, Intermediate grades 6-8 and Senior grades 9-12), they will need to retake it. When selecting the organization, make sure to select WILLS POINT FFA and VAN ZANDT 4-H. 

Click this link to complete Quality Counts