Livestock

Overview

To Educate & Have Fun

The Livestock Department near gate 5 on Avenue “F” is ready to welcome you to the 167th edition of the Bloomsburg Fair. We are excited to continue sharing with you mutton busting (kids riding sheep as featured at rodeos) in our Bissingers Apple Dumplings Livestock Outdoor Ring (Except Tuesday & Thursday). Daily mutton-busting signups for the children will take place at the outdoor ring. We have numerous educating and entertaining demonstrations in the ring by 4-H kids and their animals, pigs, and people program, miniature horses, cattle, Percheron, and Clydesdales. Also in the outdoor ring, there will be a presentation on how pigs relate to people by Paul Yoachim, trick roper Mackenzie Fish, and much more entertainment. (See our schedule for details) You will not want to miss our 4-H horse and pony drill team performing daily in the large livestock arena, sponsored by Vance’s Apple dumplings.

Don’t miss our designated kid’s area where Farmer Bloom, our fair’s mascot, will be present. This area is intended to have fun things for kids to do and learn about livestock & agriculture. In this kid’s area, we have a cow with imitation components for the kids to milk, a scavenger hunt, peddle tractor course. The corn box is ready for the children to play in daily. There will be plenty of photo opportunities to capture all the memories. You will be able to have lots to see and do all while learning about raising animals and farming.

We have very competitive livestock shows throughout the fair week for Dairy Cattle, Sheep, Dairy Goats, Horses, Market Goats, Swine, and Breeding Beef. The 4-H kids get to show off their Dairy Cattle, market lambs, steers, goats, and swine during the 4-H shows. There will be a sale of the 4-H market animals in the John Giger small arena on Friday night at 6:00. This sale gives 4-H members a chance to make money for college or start a business. 4-H club members will be offering to have your picture taken with a calf, lamb, horse, or goat.

On the first Saturday, we have the fleece to shawl competition from where teams of 5 people make a shawl, an exciting event emceed by Jane Kettlewell. We are very excited about our very successful Horse Pulling contest and have received more sponsorships to be put towards the premiums. Also, a fan favorite is the Mini Horse Pull which is held Saturday morning at 9:30 am and sponsored by the Columbia-Montour Visitors Bureau. The pony pulling on Saturday afternoon is always a well-attended event.

The news media is invited to attend the 36th-anniversary Hoe-down to be held in the Large Arena on Wednesday evening at 7 pm. The following companies are proud to be sponsors of this event held for the livestock exhibitors and their families:

Hatfield Quality Meats
Sunset Ice Cream
Stroehmann & Maier’s Bakeries, Inc.
Middleswarth Potato Chips
Giant Food Stores, Inc.
Catawissa Bottling Co.
Dairy Farmers of America
R.U. Troutman & Son, Distributors of Middleswarth Potato Chips
The Bloomsburg Fair

Jim Vance’s Apple Dumplings on Avenue “E”, in combination with the Bloomsburg Fair, is once again sponsoring the Horse & Pony Drill Team for your daily entertainment.

We are glad that Yoder Way Builders have sponsored a red and white-domed pole barn for the Livestock Area you can see this great hoop barn from Rt. 11.

Have fun, learn and make many family memories at our fair!

Jeff B. Giger
Supt. of Livestock

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Livestock Schedule 2022

An Educational & Entertaining Week of Events

(Also see our schedule located @ the Outdoor Ring, for additional, on the hour, livestock shows)

Friday

4H Horse & Pony Drill Team – 8 pm to 9 pm – Large Arena

Saturday

4H Vocational Horse Show – 9 am to early afternoon – Large Arena
Mini Horse & Mini Zebu Cattle – 10 am – Bissingers Apple Dumpling Ring
Fleece to Shawl Show (Sponsored by A-plus Metal Roofing)- 1pm –J. Giger Small Arena
Hitch Percheron & Clydesdale Horses – 4 pm (after 4H horse show) – Large Arena
Mutton Busting – 5pm – Bissingers Apple Dumplings Outdoor Ring
Trick Roper by Mackenzie Fish, free photos, 6pm – Bissingers Apple Outdoor Ring
Mini Horse & Mini Zebu Cattle – 7pm – Bissingers Apple Outdoor Ring

Sunday

Mini Horse & Mini Zebu Cattle – 10 am – Bissingers Apple Outdoor
Ring Hitch Percheron Horses – 1 pm – for Tractor Parade
4H Horse & Pony Drill Team – 4pm – Large Arena
Hitch Percheron & Clydesdale Horses – 5:30pm – Large Arena
Trick Roper by Mackenzie Fish, free photos, 6pm – Bissingers Apple Outdoor Ring
Youth Poster Contest – 7pm – Bissingers Apple Dumpling Outdoor Ring

Monday

Judging 4H Swine – 8am – John Giger Small Arena
FFA Skil-A-Thon Judging Team – 9am – Large Arena
Judging 4H Beef – 1pm – Large Arena
Judging 4H Rabbits – 2pm – John Giger Small Arena
Judging 4H Dairy Beef – 2:15pm – Large Arena
Judging 4H & Open Breeding Beef – 3:15pm – Large Arena
4H Horse & Pony Drill Team – 4pm – Large Arena
Draft Horse Hitch Competition- 5pm- Large Arena
Trick Roper by Mackenzie Fish, free photos, 7pm – Bissingers Apple Outdoor Ring

Tuesday

Judging 4H Market Lambs – 8am – John Giger Small Arena
Judging Color Breed Cattle – 9am – Large Arena
Judging 4H Breeding Sheep – 12pm – John Giger Small Arena
Judging 4H Market Goats – 2pm – John Giger Small Arena
Judging 4H Breeding Boer Goats – 4:30pm – John Giger Small Arena
Hitch Percheron & Clydesdale Horses – 5pm – Large Arena
4H Horse & Pony Drill Team – 6pm – Large Arena

Wednesday

Judging Holstein & Red & White Dairy Cattle – 9am – Large Arena
Judging Dairy Goats – 9am – John Giger Small Arena
Mini Horse & Mini Zebu Cattle – 11am – Bissingers Apple Outdoor Ring
Mutton Busting -1pm – Bissingers Apple Dumplings Outdoor Ring
Pigs & People Program – 3pm – Bissingers Apple Dumplings Outdoor Ring
Mutton Busting – 4pm – Bissingers Apple Dumplings Outdoor Ring
Mini Horse & Mini Zebu Cattle – 6pm – Bissingers Apple Outdoor Ring
Livestock Banquet Hoedown – 7pm – Large Arena (Livestock Exhibitors only)

Thursday

Judging Open Boer Goat Show – 8:30am – John Giger Small Arena
Judging 4H Dairy Cattle – 9am – Large Arena
Judging Open Sheep – 9:30am – John Giger Small Arena
Judging Supreme Champ Dairy Cow from Open Show –After 4H Dairy Show- Large Arena
4H Horse & Pony Drill Team – 6pm – Large Arena
Hitch Percheron Horses – 7pm – Large Arena
Livestock Fun Night – 7:30pm – Large Arena

Friday

Hitch Percheron Horses & Mini Zebu Cattle – 9:30am – Large Arena ($5 includes all Horse Pulling Shows)
Lightweight Horse Pulling – 10am – Large Arena
Heavyweight Horse Pulling – 1pm – Large Arena
4H Horse & Pony Drill Team 4pm – Large Arena
4H & FFA Livestock Sale – 6pm – John Giger Small Arena
Hitch Percheron Horses & Mini Zebu Cattle – 7pm – Large Arena

Saturday

Hitch Percheron Horses & Mini Zebu Cattle – 9:15am – Large Arena
Mini Horse Pull – 9:30am – Large Arena (Sponsored by Columbia-Montour Visitors Bureau)
Light & Heavyweight Pony Pulling – 1pm – Large Arena
4H & FFA Supreme Showman Contest – 1pm – John Giger Small Arena
Mutton Busting – 4pm – Bissingers Apple Dumplings Outdoor Ring
4H Horse & Pony Drill Team – 4:30pm – Large Arena
Trick Roper by Mackenzie Fish, free photos, 5pm – Bissingers Apple Outdoor Ring
4H Rabbit Jumping – 6pm – Bissingers Apple Dumplings Outdoor Ring
Trick Roper by Mackenzie Fish, free photos, 7pm – Bissingers Apple Outdoor Ring

Friday through Saturday

Daily Demonstrations in Livestock Area

Percherons 4 Horse Hitch owned by Jesse & Heather Fisk, Bloomsburg, PA
Clydesdales by Luke & Rachel Vastine, Millville, PA
Miniature Horse owned by Stoney Lane Farms, Rhyne Family, Mifflinburg, PA
Scottish Black Face & Jacob Sheep owned by Milheim Family, Berwick, PA
Pigs and People program by Paul Yoachim, Bradford County
Miniature Zebu Cattle, Reabuck Ranch, Stillwater, PA
PA Rabbit Queen MolliLyn Petro, Rabbit Hopping Demonstration and Meet & Greet
Alpaca, Caitlyn O’Connor, Nescopeck, PA
Trick Roper, Mackenzie Fish, Orangeville, PA
Livestock Kids Area: pedal tractors, corn box, Farmer Bloom mascot, mutton busting, milking an imitation cow