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2024 Achievement Days

Set-Up Date: July 8 / Static Judging: July 8  / Livestock Record Book Judging: July 10 / Livestock Judging: July 10 & 11

 

Achievement Days 101 - PDF Flyer

 

ND State Fair YQCA Training - PDF Flyer (registration not open yet for 2024)

Achievement Days Schedule of Events - PDF Flyer - STATIC JUDGING IS ON MONDAY FOR 2024!!!!

Static & Livestock Exhibit Registration - FairEntry

Copy Fair (for Renewing Fairs) – FairEntry Help Center

Registration Opens: May 20  /  Registration Closes: June 21

Registration Website (not updated for 2024)

Step-by-Step Registration Helpers Guide (not updated for 2024)

Achievement Days/ND State Fair Exhibitor Book (use this book to determine Division #'s, Class #'s and rules to follow for each exhibit.)

 

Achievement Days Informational Packets (not current for 2024)

4-H Exhibitor Handbook

4-H Work Schedule Book (members, clubs, committees, & families)

 

Important Reminders/Updates for 2024 Achievement Days

* Static Judging is on Monday, July 8th this year!!! Set-Up will take place while youth are being Static Judged. No set-up meal will take place, but concessions will be available! 

* Are you participating in the Premium Sale? If yes, you are required to enter a min. of one Static exhibit. This exhibit must be able to fall into one of the classes located within the Achievement Days/ND State Fair Exhibit Book OR a Cloverbud class (4-H ages 5-7).

* Livestock Record Books - Each exhibitor is REQUIRED to submit one Livestock Record Book PER species. Register this under each livestock species in FairEntry. These are interview judged on July 10. Animals can be grouped together if they are the same species/division.

* Showmanship Division - This is where the youths skills are judged showing their animal, rather than the livestock they are exhibiting. Interested? You must sign up for this under each of your livestock species in FairEntry! Junior Division (4-H ages 5-12) & Senior Division (4-H ages 13-18)

* Registered Breeds - You must have proper documentation or your livestock will be moved from the registered breed to commercial division. 

 

LIVESTOCK RECORD BOOKS / EXHIBIT LABELS / OTHER FORMS - EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS

PHOTOGRAPHY

** Labels

** Preparing your Photography Exhibit Guide

FOOD PRESERVATION LABELS

GLUE SOLUTIONS LABEL

SCISSORS AWARD FORM (not current for 2024)

STATIC EXHIBIT - ABSENTEE FORM

LIVESTOCK EXHIBIT - ABSENTEE FORM

ND 4-H LIVESTOCK SHOWMANSHIP GUIDE

POULTRY SHOWMANSHIP GUIDE

RABBIT SHOWMANSHIP GUIDE

ONLINE SHOWMANSHIP VIDEOS - ALL SPECIES (Select Videos Tab)

 

PREMIUM SALE

Premium Sale Criteria Form (not current for 2024)

* Are you participating in the Premium Sale? If yes, starting this year you are required to enter a min. of one Static exhibit. This exhibit mys tbe able to fall into one of the classes located within the Achievement Days/ND State Fair Exhibit Book OR a Cloverbud class (4-H ages 5-7).

 

LIVESTOCK RECORD BOOKS

(4-H Youth ages 5-7 as of Sept. 1, 2023)

* You can combine ALL animal per species onto one record book *

BEEF RECORD BOOK - Cloverbud

SHEEP RECORD BOOK - Cloverbud

SWINE RECORD BOOK - Cloverbud

GOAT RECORD BOOK - Cloverbud

RABBIT RECORD BOOK - Cloverbud

POULTRY RECORD BOOK - Cloverbud

 

(4-H Youth ages 8-18 as of Sept. 1, 2023)

* POULTRY - RABBIT * 

You can combine all animals per species (breeding & market) onto one record book *

SMALL ANIMAL RECORD BOOK

 

* BEEF - SHEEP - SWINE - GOAT *

Must complete the MARKET ANIMAL record book for all Market Animals - Use one book PER species - You can combine all animals within a species in a book

Must complete the BREEDING ANIMAL record book for all Breeding Animals - Use one book PER species - You can combine all animals within a species in a book

MARKET RECORD BOOK

BREEDING RECORD BOOK