4-H’ers prepare for fair

By Jim Tiffin
Cibola County Bureau

PREWITT — About 100 Cibola County 4-H Club members will gather together Saturday morning for a pre-Bi-County Fair tuneup at the Prewitt Fairgrounds.

Jimmy Plane, New Mexico State University Cooperative Extension agent for Cibola County, said the public is welcome to attend and watch area youth practice showing their steers, goats, lambs and the largest number of animals, hogs.

The 4-H Club membership has increased by 12, from 88 to 100, since last year, in part because of a project and class presentation Plane made at St. Teresa’s Catholic School and at Future Foundations Family Center throughout the school year.

One project at St. Teresa’s was the “egg to chick” project.
“We took eggs and incubated them to when the chicks hatched so the students could see the entire process,” he said.

The rabbit and poultry exhibits will be on display in the rabbit and poultry building on the fairgrounds, Plane said.

“This gives the younger 4-H’ers an opportunity to learn how to show their animals in the show ring and see how we do things at the Bi-County Fair,” he said.

The event at the fairgrounds is from 9 a.m. to about 2 or 3 p.m., depending on how long it takes to shows the animals.
Information: (505) 287-9266.