Stock show thank yous due April 1

By Sam Waller

Checks for animals sold at this year’s Shackelford County Youth and Livestock Show will be distributed April 8, but exhibitors have a checklist of tasks to complete before being paid.

Checks will be distributed from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. at the Albany Visitors Center parking lot.

Before claiming their money, students must have thank you notes written and ready to mail by April 1. Thank you notes must be placed in stamped, addressed envelopes and certified by Albany FFA advisor Chris Beard or Shackelford County extension agent Kelsey Bell.

Exhibitors must also pay all outstanding balance due the stock show and clean pens for animals kept at the FFA barn by April 1. Beard said several exhibitors still owe for entry fees, project animals, FFA dues, meat/fruit/cookie sales, feed, gilt health papers and bleeding, and/or barrow health papers for the Fort Worth stock show.

April 1 is also the deadline to submit applications for Shackelford Youth and Livestock Association memorial scholarships. Seniors may obtain scholarship applications from their FFA advisors and submit them to Jenny Scott at the Albany Junior/Senior High School library.

Also in April, animal tags for spring, summer and fall shows must ordered. Steer tags for Spring 2023 are $20, while heifer tags for Fall 2022 are $15. Orders must be placed by April 23.

State Fair of Texas pig tags are $15 and must be ordered by April 30.