04/03/2026
DON’T FORGET!! Weigh-in for pigs, sheep and goats is this 🗓️Saturday April 4th
📍Hood Park
🕰️7 am to 10am.
The Drifting Diner, LLC will be there serving food!
We will run weigh-in the same as last year. Please see attached map.
Everyone will ENTER through the front gate and EXIT through the back gate.
🐖🐑🐐Everyone will follow the pink line and the lines will split at the cattlemen’s booth.
🐖If you are weighing any of the pigs on your trailer you will follow the yellow line (normal weigh in procedure).
🐐🐑If you are not weighing pigs you will follow the blue line for tagging only.
Both lines will be collecting DNA for State Fair.
🐑🐐ALL sheep and goats will follow the yellow line.
DNA Collection
Market Animals only
Exhibitors must have an envelope with the following information or they will go to the back of the line. Exhibitor name, address, county, 4-H or FFA chapter and species.
Any animal going to the MO State Fair will need DNA pulled at weigh-in!
Rule Reminders
No PeeWee animals weigh in. They are responsible for getting their own EID Tags.
Swine, sheep, and goats exhibitors can weigh-in three animals per species but only show 2 animals per species at the fair.
We suggest that all hogs be in the 0-95 pound range at initial weigh-in
Lambs may be wethers or ewes. They must be under 1 year of age, with a full set of baby teeth, and no sign of permanent teeth. Lambs must be castrated prior to the initial weigh-in.
Only wethers may be shown in the market class. Goats must be less than 1 year of age, have baby teeth intact, te**es removed.
