The Central Virginia Livestock Show will be held Saturday at the Lynchburg Livestock Market.
The livestock market is south of Lynchburg off of U.S. 29 on Livestock Road.
The show includes 4-H and National FFA Organization members from Amherst, Appomattox, Bedford, Campbell and Nelson counties.
The 4-H and FFA members have been feeding, watering, caring for and halter-breaking their animals since January.
There are 90 exhibitors in the show and they will exhibit 14 market hogs, 35 market lambs, 12 market steers, five cow-calf pairs, 31 market and doe goats and 30 registered and commercial breeding heifers. There will also be a stockman’s contest to test the livestock knowledge of the 4-H and FFA members and adults.
The market animals have been fed so that after the show, they will be sold to area farms, businesses and individuals.
After the sale, buyers will have the market animals taken to Peak’s slaughterhouse. A carcass show is scheduled for 7 p.m. May 6 at Peak’s. Interested market animal buyers can call Bill Seay at the Amherst Extension Office at (434) 946-9365.
The breeding classes are designed for animals that will be taken back to local farms and used for breeding stock. They will be judged based on their perceived value as a breeding animal.
The public is invited.
The schedule is:
8 to 9 a.m., swine showmanship
9 to 9:30 a.m., market hog show
9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m., beef showmanship
10:30 to 11 a.m., market steer show
11 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., heifer show
11:30 to 11:45 a.m., cow-calf show
Noon to 1 p.m., sheep showmanship
1 to 2 p.m., market lamb show
2 p.m. to 2:15 p.m., ewe lamb show
2:15 to 3:15 p.m., goat showmanship
3:15 to 4:15 p.m., market goat show
4:15 to 5 p.m., doe goat show
6 p.m., buyer and exhibitor dinner
7 to 8:30 p.m., market hog, steer and lamb sale
–– Submitted by Bill Seay
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