Los Alamos County 4-H Program Has Busy Week Ahead At Two County Fairs!

Adalene, one of many members of the Los Alamos County 4-H program, will be showing Chickens, Turkeys, Lamb and Goats at the Rio Arriba County Fair. She has been showing at various jackpot shows this summer across Southern Colorado and Northern New Mexico. Some of her achievements so far have been Reserve Champion Novice Showman Lamb, and Grand Champion Novice Showman Goats. Courtesy photo

Archer has been enjoying 4-H especially his projects for baking, woodworking, and archery. He baked a homemade cherry pie for the homemade delights contest at the Rio Arriba County Fair this year. Courtesy photo

BY LENA ZIELIE
Los Alamos County 4-H

The Los Alamos County 4-H program has a busy week ahead of us. We started the week setting up the fairgrounds on Sunday, followed by Monday July 29 is the Homemade Delights contest at the Rio Arriba County Fair. 4-H and FFA members from Los Alamos and Rio Arriba County competed in 10 different classes showcasing their Baking skills. The Winners of each class will have the opportunity to create a gift basket of their Baked Goods to sell at the Fair Auction Saturday Aug 3.

Tuesday-Friday our Los Alamos 4-H members along with those of Rio Arriba 4-H and Mesa Vista FFA will be at the Fair Grounds in Abiquiu, showing their animals, where the top animals in each market class will be eligible for the Livestock Auction. The Fair ends Saturday with a day of showcasing all their hard work, the morning starts the Mesa Vista Fundraiser Pancake Breakfast, followed by the Round Robin Showmanship Contest where the top showman from each large animal species compete for the overall title. The night ends with the Livestock and Homemade Delights Auction starting at 5pm.

Our Los Alamos 4-H members will also be exhibiting all of our indoor project exhibits at the Los Alamos County Fair which is open to the public for viewing Aug 2 & 3 in the 3rd floor of the Mesa Library. The 4-H projects on display are competing for the opportunity to represent Los Alamos County at the NM State Fair at Expo NM in September.

The families of Los Alamos 4-H invite everyone out to come out and enjoy either fair, come up to see our livestock, and attend our Showcase and Auction Night on Saturday. Come see what 4-H is and what these kids have been working on this past year.

If you are interested in learning more about 4-H and the program here in Los Alamos, please reach out to the NMSU Extension office at loslamos@nmsu.edu OR call (505) 662-2656.

Below are some more of our 4-H members, and a little about what they will be showing this year at the State and County Fairs:

Thor will be showing Chickens, Lambs and Goats for the first time this year at the Rio Arriba County Fair. Courtesy photo

Liam will be showing a chicken and a rabbit this year at the Rio Arriba County Fair. Courtesy photo

Kayleigh will be showing a Chicken Layer Pen, a Rooster, a Rabbit Meat Pen and a Single Rabbit this year. She will also be entering a yeast bread and scones into the Homemade Delights Baking contest. Courtesy photo

Conner will be showing a Chicken Layer Pen, Single Chickens, a Rabbit Meat Pen, and Single Rabbits this year. He will also be entering Brownies and a Blueberry Loaf with Lemon Glaze into the Homemade Delights Baking contest. Courtesy photo

Lillian this will be her 3rd year showing chickens at the Rio Arriba County Fair, and has entered her photography exhibits at the Los Alamos Fair. Courtesy photo

Chloe will be showing her chickens for the 4th year. She raises bantam and standard chickens, selling the eggs throughout the year to help offset her costs. She entered a Pineapple Banana Hummingbird cake this year for Homemade Delights. Courtesy photo

Maliyah has been busy with her goat Hedwig. This is her first year showing goat and has been busy practicing her showmanship skills and teaching her goat to brace. She also entered apricot empanadas for Homemade Delights. Courtesy photo

Sylvia is a junior 4-H member this year and continues to enjoy her poultry project as well as her sewing, baking, and rifle projects. She will be showing 2 of her favorite chickens at the Rio Arriba County Fair. Courtesy photo

Cora will be showing a Lamb and Goat this year at the county fair. Her focus has been goats this summer. She won Champion Goat Showman in her age bracket at 3 of her shows this summer. Courtesy photo