4-H Meat Animal Sale Private Treaty Update

The 4-H Meat Animal Sale is proud to have the support of local slaughterhouses. It has come to the attention of the 4-H Meat Animal Sale Committee that private treaty animals are pushing slaughterhouses to the limit of the number of animals that they can safely process at the conclusion of the Chautauqua County Fair. To ensure the best processing for each participant’s 4-H Meat Animal, the 4-H Office will no longer coordinate private treaty sales or schedule trucking for extra 4-H market animals that have not been sold at the 4-H Meat Animal Sale. 

Youth who participate in the steer, market goat, market lamb, or swine projects may only send the animal that has gone through the sale to the four slaughter facilities that partner with 4-H that remove the animals from the fairgrounds Sunday morning. Poultry are exempt from any of these policies as they are processed before the Fair. Youth will be permitted to make sale arrangements and select a processor of their choosing prior to the fair for extra projects animals not going through the meat animal sale. While at the fair, for sale signs and selling animals prior to the conclusion of the sale is prohibited. Youth or the buyer must make arrangements for the removal all animals not going through the meat animal sale after 3:00pm on the closing Sunday of the fair.

If you have any questions regarding this new rule please contact Kate Ewer at 716-664-9502 x212. 

Regional Slaughterhouses

Last updated November 27, 2018