1.        The following entries will be sold at Auction:

1. Forty (40) Markets Steers;
2. Forty (40) Market Hogs;
3. Ten (10) pens of Market Broilers (or 50% of number exhibited – not to exceed ten);
4. Ten (10) pens of Market Rabbits (or 50% of number exhibited – not to exceed ten);
5. Market Lambs (35% of number exhibited – not to exceed ten);
6. Grand and Reserve Champion and Thirteen (13) Commercial Heifers;
7. Ten (10) Market Goats (or 15 % of number exhibited);
8. Champion and Reserve Champion Food Items from the Home Economics Division (see Home Economics division Rule #3) – no more than one entry per exhibitor in the division.

2.        A seven percent (7%) Sales commission will be charged on all entries sold at the auction.

3.        All animals to be sold at auction must be entered in Market Swine, Market Lambs, Market Goats, Market Rabbits, Market Broilers, Commercial Heifers or Market Steer Divisions. Animals that qualify for and participate in the Auction Sale will not be eligible to show in the breeding divisions.

4.        No exhibitor will be allowed to show more than one entry in each sale division, including the following divisions: Market Swine, Market Lambs, Market Goats, Market Rabbits, Market Broilers, Commercial Heifers, Market Steers and Home Economics.

5.        All Market Steers, Market Goats, Commercial Heifers and Market Lambs exhibitors who had animals in the auction must be outside of the west end of the rodeo pens at 8:00 a.m. Saturday following the Friday night Youth Auction to load their animals.

6.        An Exhibitor may enter any or all seven-market divisions; however, if you have a Grand or Reserve Champion Commercial Heifer, she must sell. Each exhibitor may sell only two items in the sale. If an exhibitor qualifies more than two items for the sale, he/she must decide which items to sell by one hour after the conclusion of the Steer Show. If not, the Show President or Auction Buyers Chairperson will make the decision and notification will not be made to the exhibitor (Grand and Reserve will take precedence and class placing per species will be used in decision making). Exhibitors who desire to not sell their item in the Youth Auction Sale must notify Show President or Auction Chairperson by 9:00 p.m., on the Thursday night during the week of the show.

7.        The Division of Sale animals (Market Steers, Commercial Heifers, Market Swine, Market Broilers, Market Rabbits, Market Goats and Market Lambs) are open to the active 4-H members, Jr. FFA and FFA members that attend or live in Liberty County school districts from Tag-In till ShowTime, excluding those FFA and 4-H member living in Dayton Independent School District.

8.        To be eligible to sell a food item in the Youth Auction Sale, an exhibitor must be an active member of a 4-H Club, FFA Chapter or FHA Chapter in Liberty County, or enrolled in a high school or junior high school home economics class in Liberty County (excluding Dayton ISD students). Home Economic items in the Auction must pay a $ 20.00 auction and 7% sale fee (entry fee already paid will be deducted from the amount).

9.       Exhibitors of ALL sale items MUST be at a MANDATORY meeting in the rodeo arena stands at 6:00 p.m. Friday before the Youth Auction Sale. Failure to attend this meeting results in that sale item NOT SELLING.

10.     Note: All exhibitors who sell items in the youth auction must turn in a “THANK YOU” note to their sponsor (FFA exhibitors – Agriculture Science Instructor, 4-H Exhibitors – County Extension Agent) before checks will be released. The above mentioned sponsors will distribute checks to exhibitors.

11.     Check will not be issued until all the Auction funds are collected.

12.     Donations (to individuals or organizations) will be recognized at post time during the Auction