G illespie County 4-Hers and FFA members know their way around a show ring. With the fall stock show season in full swing, hundreds of youth in the area compete in the numerous shows around the state.
Officially kicking off the 2025 stock show season for all of the county’s youth are the Gillespie County 4-H and FFA Livestock Show and Auction and the Harper Stock Show.
Harper’s Stock Show will be at the Harper Independent School District’s Show Barn starting Dec. 21. The Gillespie show will be Jan. 1-4, 2025, at the Show Barn at the Gillespie County Fair Grounds. For more information on the stock show schedule, the Gillespie County 4-H website can be accessed at Gillespie.agrilife.org.
Stock Shows
Gillespie County 4-Hers, Fredericksburg and Harper ISD FFA members will be competing in livestock shows around the state including the following:
• West Texas Fair and Rodeo in Abilene – Sept. 5-14, 2024.
• State Fair of Texas in Dallas — Sept. 27-Oct. 20, 2024.
• Heart O’Texas Fair and Rodeo in Waco — Sept. 25-Oct. 13, 2024.
• Harper Stock Show – Dec. 21, 2024.
• Gillespie County 4-H and FFA Livestock Show and Auction — Jan. 1-4, 2025.
• Sandhills Stock Show and Rodeo in Odessa — Jan. 2-11, 2025.
• Hill District Grandstand Show — Jan. 11-18, 2025.
• Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo — Jan. 17-Feb. 8, 2025.
• San Angelo Stock Show — Jan. 22-Feb. 16, 2025.
• San Antonio Livestock Exposition — Feb. 6-22, 2025.
• Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo —March 4-23, 2025.
• Rodeo Austin – March 14-29, 2025.
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