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August 18, 2025 • 11 mins
On this edition of ACF 411, Russ is joined by three members of 4-H to talk about their projects at the fair!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, we're back to another edition of ACF four

(00:02):
one one, the official podcast of the Allen County Fair,
and I'm Rush Deck or your host, and we've got
three ladies, young ladies joining us here in the podcast Parlor.
And if you've never been to the podcast parlor at
the Allen County Fair, easy to find. We're on the
north end of the dairy barn in the old milking parlor,
So that's why we call it the podcast Parlor. And
we even have a cow here and he watches, she

(00:25):
watches all of our interviews and make sure we do
these rights. So I'm going to ask each one of
you to take a second introduce yourself and tell us
where you go to school and what projects you have
this year at the fair.

Speaker 2 (00:39):
I'm Riley Roverson. I go to Alan East and I
show pigs at the fair.

Speaker 1 (00:44):
And are you in the FFA there? I am, okay,
very good.

Speaker 3 (00:48):
I'm Harper Corbett.

Speaker 4 (00:49):
I also go to Alanie's and this year I'm showing
chickens and rabbits and goats.

Speaker 3 (00:54):
And then I also did a special interest project.

Speaker 1 (00:57):
Okay, we're going to come back to that. This is
a special project in a second.

Speaker 3 (01:00):
Yeah, I'm Sydney Rostoffert.

Speaker 5 (01:02):
I go to DULAS Saint John's and I showed canine
and special interest, all.

Speaker 1 (01:06):
Right, and are you at FFA in Dulas? Okay, so
in yours. So we've got three FFA years, right, and
a lot of different project categories represented today. So let's
start with the pigs, because that's gonna be tough, right, So,
so tell me about your pig.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
I have two pigs, and I have two crossbreads, and
one of them is a calico, so it's red, black
and white and it's a barrow. And then my other
one is a blue butt, so it's like white and
like a grayish blue color and it's a guilt.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
So and I only asked this because one of our
other guests brought this up with have you ever tried
to ride your pigs?

Speaker 2 (01:50):
No?

Speaker 3 (01:50):
I haven't.

Speaker 1 (01:50):
You haven't tried to do that?

Speaker 3 (01:52):
No, no.

Speaker 1 (01:53):
So it was last year's fair king when I asked
him his most embarrassing moment ever, and he told me
he was sitting on his on his hog backwards and
it took off with him on the back and he
realized he hadn't shut the gate.

Speaker 2 (02:07):
Oh yeah, my sister has done that before.

Speaker 1 (02:11):
I think she has that's why you didn't do it. Yeah,
all right, So when do when do you? When do
the pigs compete?

Speaker 2 (02:19):
We did today, So it's usually on the Monday and
the Tuesday with.

Speaker 1 (02:22):
And how to do I did?

Speaker 3 (02:24):
Okay, It's it's different every year. You never really know.

Speaker 1 (02:29):
Yeah, all right, all right, but you're having fun, right yeah?
Are any of you on the Junior fairboard as well?
All three are? So you guys. I mean, I'll due
respect to the Senior Fairboard, but you guys really run
this place, right.

Speaker 3 (02:43):
We do a lot.

Speaker 1 (02:45):
Okay, we a lot. So sitting next to you, we
have rabbits, chickens with the miss goats goats and.

Speaker 3 (02:55):
I did a special waunches project this year, all right.

Speaker 1 (02:58):
So raving chickens. That's a lot. Yeah, so you got
to go in the ring like three times.

Speaker 3 (03:05):
Yep.

Speaker 4 (03:05):
I had a show Saturday, Sunday and today.

Speaker 3 (03:09):
Wow, and I have one on Wednesday too.

Speaker 1 (03:10):
Which is the easiest project of the three, I'd have
to say probably chickens. And how long? How much? So
like with a swine, it's like a year long project about,
isn't it? Okay, it's a six months? How about the chickens,
how minute? How long is that?

Speaker 3 (03:27):
You only have them for a few months? Really they
grow pretty fast.

Speaker 4 (03:30):
So and rabbits all the same, You don't have them
for that long.

Speaker 1 (03:35):
Goats longer, I assume. Yeah, goats a little stubborn.

Speaker 3 (03:40):
Yeah, you could say that, and that's why.

Speaker 1 (03:42):
They talk about stubborn goats. Right, So what have you
ever wanted your goat to do that he wouldn't do
or she wouldn't do?

Speaker 3 (03:50):
Well?

Speaker 4 (03:51):
Today, I they were having a little trouble bracing, but
it's okay.

Speaker 3 (03:55):
We got we got over it.

Speaker 1 (03:58):
So what is that.

Speaker 4 (04:00):
Setting them setting them up for the judge to look at,
just trying to make them look their best.

Speaker 1 (04:05):
So that's when like their legs are supposed to beat
their same spots and yeah, all of those kinds of things.
Because we have a lot of people who listen to
podcasts and are like, I don't understand what you guys
are talking about.

Speaker 4 (04:14):
Why didn't know a lot either, because this is my
first year doing thought, so I was learning a.

Speaker 1 (04:19):
Lot, all right. So how about so rabbits I think
seem cool, right, I mean the rabbits just like they're there,
they're eating I don't know what they eat carrots. Yeah,
what do rabbits eat?

Speaker 4 (04:31):
Oh they have pellets, not so much carrots, but just yeah, it's.

Speaker 3 (04:37):
Like your regular feed.

Speaker 1 (04:38):
Can you actually train a rabbit to do anything? I mean,
can you make it stand or does it?

Speaker 3 (04:44):
Yeah? I'm sure you could.

Speaker 4 (04:46):
I haven't done any like tricks, but like you can
train it to like sit a certain way for depending
on your rabbit.

Speaker 1 (04:54):
Because a goat, could you I assume like kind of
like a swine project, you can sort of get them
to understand their and follow your lead or something like that.
And I mean, I know they don't want to, but
they will do it right, And I would assume a
goat's similar to that. But rabbits and chickens probably you
don't teach them anything.

Speaker 3 (05:11):
Yeah, no, not really.

Speaker 1 (05:13):
So how are they judged? How do you know that
this chicken is better than that chicken?

Speaker 3 (05:17):
Again?

Speaker 4 (05:18):
They feel them like when you flip them upside down.
If you brand of chicken show, you flip them upside
down or hold them by their legs, and the judge
feels their breasts.

Speaker 1 (05:27):
And so you hold the chicken upside down, ye, by
their legs And do they like that?

Speaker 3 (05:35):
Usually not?

Speaker 4 (05:36):
But if you do it slow enough and like not
flinging them around. They're usually don't freak out too bad.

Speaker 1 (05:42):
And you learn that, yep, because did you fling them
around first?

Speaker 3 (05:46):
I've watched people do it.

Speaker 1 (05:48):
Okay, lose it.

Speaker 3 (05:49):
People will sometimes lose a few chickens.

Speaker 1 (05:51):
So all right, and I forgot what what's your project?

Speaker 3 (05:57):
Canine and special interest canines? Dogs?

Speaker 1 (06:00):
Yes, something I understand. Okay, So now the dogs out
aren't out here all the time, are they?

Speaker 3 (06:05):
No?

Speaker 1 (06:06):
So when do you show dogs? When did the dogs first?

Speaker 3 (06:09):
Saturday?

Speaker 1 (06:10):
So we already missed it, right, how'd you do?

Speaker 4 (06:13):
I did?

Speaker 5 (06:13):
Okay? I placed in two of my events.

Speaker 1 (06:17):
And I'm like, these guys, you're not going to go
in and get a payday, are you?

Speaker 3 (06:21):
No?

Speaker 1 (06:21):
Well that kind of stinks. Don't you think the dogs
people should get a pay day?

Speaker 5 (06:26):
We get a little bit, but it's not quite as
much as like anything else.

Speaker 1 (06:31):
Okay, so yeah, you know, sometimes some it doesn't seem
like it's really equitable. Sometimes. I was talking to the
king the other day, King Sheldon, right, and I asked
him why he didn't get a crown and the queen
gets a crown, and he's like he didn't know, So
it's like you you don't get a payday. So there
we go. Whose project is the most fun? Cause you

(06:54):
guys know which I can tell your girlfriends whose project
is the most fun?

Speaker 3 (07:00):
I think? Riley says hogs.

Speaker 1 (07:03):
Yeah, why.

Speaker 2 (07:10):
I think it's fun because I don't know, you put
a lot of work in it. It does take a
lot of work, but like it really does pay off.
And I mean, pigs are just fun.

Speaker 3 (07:20):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (07:21):
Are you gonna do a pig again next year?

Speaker 2 (07:23):
Yeah? I think next year is gonna be a last year.

Speaker 1 (07:25):
Next year's your last year, sir. You a senior going
into your senior year. Okay, are you all back next year?
Are you gonna do same projects? Are you gonna do
something different?

Speaker 3 (07:36):
I think I'll probably do the same projects a lot.

Speaker 1 (07:39):
Of projects in your case.

Speaker 3 (07:41):
Right, I'm doing different projects too.

Speaker 1 (07:43):
What are you gonna do different?

Speaker 3 (07:45):
I'm doing hogs next year too?

Speaker 1 (07:46):
You are, yeah, all right? And you're from Delphis, right, yes?
So you know Troy Elwerk can set you up with
a hog. Oh yeah, yeah, he's like the hog guy.

Speaker 2 (07:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (07:56):
Yeah. I do want to talk about the special interest
project because we don't they don't get a lot of
publicity and you've got a special interest, correct, So tell
us about your special interest project.

Speaker 3 (08:09):
This year, I did a sewing project. So I sewed
a top and that's pretty fun.

Speaker 1 (08:17):
So so okay, so you were doing a sewing project
for people that don't understand special interest projects at the fair,
I mean it's the whole building of projects up on
the north end. What are some of the other categories
that people might be surprised that you can you know,
in four h you can do bottle you can do rockets, right,
you can.

Speaker 4 (08:37):
Yeah, there's tons, there's one that I did for a while.

Speaker 3 (08:41):
I don't do it any more.

Speaker 4 (08:42):
Right at sharpshooters where you can shoot all kinds of guns.
There's insects exploring outdoors, there's cooking, how to grow vegetables.
There's a whole bunch of stuff or even self determined
where you can make your own.

Speaker 1 (08:56):
So that's really kind of a neat part of four
eight because it's four h right, Yeah, So it's a
neat part of four h because it's really so folks
who maybe aren't out in the country, so maybe they
couldn't take on a swine project or a goat or
something they could do something else. They could do a
canine project. They could do rockets if they're into rockets,

(09:18):
they could sew, they could do all those other things.
That's probably how we end up with. I think you
all know Kelly, right, she really mean you can tell
me because she doesn't listen to these, so you could say, okay,
But I think Kelly was telling me fourteen hundred kids
this year projects out here. Oh so that's pretty incredible.

(09:39):
And so obviously we don't have fourteen hundred hogs and
cattle and all that stuff. So there's a lot of
special projects going on in there. How do those get
judged or is it by each category?

Speaker 3 (09:52):
Yeah, there's like.

Speaker 4 (09:53):
A separate judging day and depending on your project, you'll
go and get judged.

Speaker 3 (09:59):
They'll talk about your book, and.

Speaker 4 (10:00):
If you have to make something, you go over that,
and then all of the kids that took that same project.
Then they'll pick like somebody that will go to state
and they can show at state.

Speaker 1 (10:10):
Great. So if somebody's out there listening to the podcast
or they're watching the podcast, they've never been to a
county fair ever in their life. And I want to
each one of you to answer this, why should they
come out and see the Allen County Fair.

Speaker 2 (10:25):
I think the Allen County Fair is a very like
it's one of the in my opinion, the.

Speaker 3 (10:30):
Best fairs around here. It is.

Speaker 2 (10:33):
It has a lot of stuff and there's always a
lot of people here. There's like so many things to do.
Surely you can do games, rides, you can go watch stuff.
There's a lot of entertainment and I don't know, I
just think I've never been to a better fair personally.

Speaker 1 (10:50):
Okay, you're selling it really well.

Speaker 4 (10:55):
For me, the Allen County Fair is a part of
my year that I look forward to, like through school
and everything. There's so many things to do and see
so many people to me and even your friends. Oh yeah,
it's always my.

Speaker 3 (11:09):
Favorite week, all right for me. I think it's a
really good community thing.

Speaker 5 (11:15):
I feel like there's always somebody like in the barns
and everything and that'll be really friendly to you. And
if you like are new and you want to like
pet an animal, like, everybody's really friendly.

Speaker 1 (11:24):
And we'll let you do that, all right. So I'm
hoping everybody at Allan East and Delpha Saint John's is
listening or we're going to watch this podcast is Sydney
Harper and Riley thanks for coming in to the podcast
parlor today. Thank you, and we want to thank the
folks who make it work. So Alex Wolf is our
engineer making it work, and then and Decker back there

(11:46):
on is our videographer to make us look good on YouTube.
So thanks everybody, and we'll catch you again on the
next edition of ACF four one one
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