2025 Key Dates - also see the calendar at http://go.osu.edu/brown4hcalendar

Shooting Sports

• Shooting Sports Safety required meetings for 2025: April 29th at 6:30pm and May 13th at 6:30pm both held in Rhonemus Hall  
  • Projects:  #750-Rifle, #751-Archery, #752-Shotgun, #753-Pistol, #754-Hunting/Wildlife, #755-Muzzleloader, #756-Living History, #757-Crossbow , #758-Western Heritage
  • Shooting Sports Safety Meeting Letter 
    • Permission to Handle and/or Fire a Handgun Form
    • Code of Conduct
    • Permission to Transport 
    • Health Form

Beef

• Beef

  Steer Market Heifer Tag in (December 12th, 2025 - 5:30-7:30pm)

• 2026 Large Market Beef Letter- includes Code of Conduct, Brown Co. Born & Raised Steer (Market Heifer) Certificate & Rules, Brown County Cattlemen's Association Membership Application

• 2025 Feeder Calf and Beef Breeding Exhibitor Letter
• Feeder Calf, Market Heifer and Heifer Tag-in Pre-registration Sheet
• Code of Conduct
• Brown County Cattlemen Born & Raised
• Feed Supplier's Certificate

Leasing of breeding animals will be allowed, following the Ohio Department of AgrIculture and the Brown County Fair guidelines.  
See the Breeding Animal Lease Information for all details by clicking on the following link(s):

• Lease Agreement INFORMATION
• Animal Lease - DAIRY
• Animal Lease - BREEDING ANIMAL 

Reference your exhibitor letter for other specific project related information.

Dairy Cattle

• Dairy Heifer / Dairy Cow Exhibitor Letter
• Lease Agreement Information
• Dairy Lease

Canine

• 2025 Dog Exhibitor Letter 

• Dog Project Registration Form 

• Dog Permission to Participate

• Dog ID/Vaccination Certificate 

• Dog Achievement Program (DAP)

• Dog 4-H Clinics 

• 2025 Ohio State Fair Junior Fair Dog Show Information

• Rising Star Award Application

• 2025 Brown County Fun Match

ALL Canine Paperwork, registration form and picture of YOU with YOUR Dog, must be submitted to the OSU Extension Brown County office by June 1, 2025, 4:00 p.m. You may submit your vaccine certificate later (prior to fair) but it must be current through the fair. 

2025 Brown County Junior Fair Dog Show information including Skill-a-thon information

Cloverbud Dog Showmanship Questions

Goats

• Goat Exhibitor Letter
• Market Goat Entry Form & Brown County Born & Raised Market Goat Information Sheet
• Boer/Boer Cross Entry Form & Brown County Born & Raised Boer Doe
• Dairy Doe Entry Form & Brown County Born & Raised Dairy Doe
• Pygmy Doe or Wether and Fiber Entry Form & Brown County Born & Raised Pygmy Doe

2025 Tag-in is on Saturday, June 7, from 8:00 a.m. until 10:00 a.m. at the Brown County Fairground

Leasing of breeding animals will be allowed, following the Ohio Department of Agriculture and the Brown County Fair guidelines.  
See the 2025 Breeding Animal Lease Information for all details by clicking on the following link(s):

• Lease Agreement INFORMATION
• Animal Lease - DAIRY 
• Animal Lease - BREEDING ANIMAL 

Reference your exhibitor letter for other specific project related information.

Horses

• Horse Exhibitor Letter
• Horse Project Information/Registration Form 
• Permission to Participate
• Horse's Identification Form 
• Brown County will not be offering a PAS show in 2025. Youth wishing to qualify for the Ohio State Fair will need to attend a PAS show in another county. You can find PAS show dates and all other information on the state website here: https://ohio4h.org/animalsciences/horse/pas-qualifying-shows. 
  • PAS Qualifying Scores 2025 
  • PAS Form for Exhibitors going to other Counties to Qualify
• State 4-H Horse Calendar of Events
• 4-H Leasing Guidelines (A lease is required only if you are leasing your horse; this is just a guide)
• Body Condition Score
• EquiStep - Required for all horse exhibitors. This is an online course, and you must have a passing score to be eligible to exhibit. EquiStep must be completed by July 1st. 

Sheep

• Sheep Exhibitor Letter
• Sheep Information Sheets (Information Sheet & Brown County Born and Raised Sheep Information)

Leasing of breeding animals will be allowed, following the Ohio Department of Agriculture and the Brown County Fair guidelines.  
See the Breeding Animal Lease Information for all details by clicking on the following link(s):

• Lease Agreement INFORMATION
• Animal Lease - DAIRY 
• Animal Lease - BREEDING ANIMAL 

Reference your exhibitor letter for other specific project related information. 

Poultry 

• Poultry Exhibitor Letter
• Poultry Information Sheet 
• Poultry (Meat Chicken's only) Information Sheet - Bring with you to pick-up chicks
• 2025 Meat Chicken On-Line ordering link - http://go.osu.edu/poultry25  
• Traveling Home with chicks
  
  2025 Tag in for Ducks, Turkeys, Geese, Wildlife, and Fancy Chickens - August 23rd , 9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. 
  
  Reference your exhibitor letter for other specific project related information. 

Rabbit 

• Rabbit Exhibitor Letter
• Rabbit Information Sheet 
  
  ♦Tag in for Fancy Rabbits, August 23rd, 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. (Georgetown High School FFA area)
  ♦Tag in for Meat Rabbit, August 23rd, 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. (Georgetown High School FFA area)
  
  Reference your exhibitor letter for other specific project related information. 

Companion Animals  

• Companion Animal Letter
• Companion Animal Information Sheet
• Certificate of Vaccination for Cats and Ferrets
  
  Pet Rabbits ONLY must come to the August 23rd tag-in, 9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m., Georgetown High School FFA room.
  
  All other Companion animal projects do not have to come to tag-in but need to mail or turn in the above Companion Animal Information Sheet by September 1st.
  
  Reference your exhibitor letter for other specific project related information.

2025 Project Guides 

New for 2025 - each project or project area has a guide with helpful completion information. https://brown.osu.edu/program-areas/4-h-youth-development/project-completion-and-fair-requirements                                        

Clothing and Food & Nutrition

• Clothing Exhibitor Letter
• Food & Nutrition Exhibitor Letter
  •        'What's on your plate?' information sheet
  •        Place Setting Suggestion
  •        Sample Menu
  • Schedule your appointment for Sept.  project judging at HTTP://go.osu.edu/projectappointment 

Family Consumer Science & Related Projects

• FCS & Related Projects Letter
• Schedule your appointment for Sept.  project judging at HTTP://go.osu.edu/projectappointment 

Self-Determined

• Self-Determined letter 
• Schedule your appointment for Sept.  project judging at HTTP://go.osu.edu/projectappointment 

4-H Conservation, Engineering, & Miscellaneous (Dept. 18)

• Department 18 letter
• Schedule your appointment for Sept.  project judging at HTTP://go.osu.edu/projectappointment 

Field Crops and Gardening & Plant Science (Dept. 16)

• Department 16 letter