(Photo by Amber Phipps) Kaydence Roush presents her poultry which won Grand Champion at the Washington County Fair on Labor Day weekend. She walks in the ring with the chicken in her arms as buyers observe and decide if they want to bid.

The Washington County Fair wrapped up its final day on Tuesday with the livestock sale and Fast Traxx event in the evening.

The livestock sale went in order of lamb, goat, chickens, dairy feeder calves, rabbit, steer, and turkey. Results for the livestock sale can be found in today’s paper.

For each group of livestock, there was a premier exhibitor, grand champion, and reserve champion.

Kaydence Roush, 12, won the title of Grand Champion Market Chickens and sold them at Tuesday’s livestock auction for $1,300.

This was her fourth year raising chickens and showing them at the fair. Roush also competed for the overall showmanship title on Monday, facing competitors from other categories.

(Photo by Amber Phipps) Grand Champion Market Chicken, Reserve Champion and Premier Exhibitor sit in their cages on display while the goats are auctioned. Zoey Hindel won Premier Exhibitor Market Chicken at the fair and her chickens were sold for $775.

“I felt really good about winning grand champion since I put a lot of work into these chickens,” said Roush.

She said her family has a barn in the backyard where they raise them.

“I wasn’t expecting it but I was confident and I just knew they were really good chickens because of how they looked,” she said.

She said that she’ll be showing milk goats at the Barlow Fair in September and she plans to show chickens again at the Washington County Fair next year.

“The kids worked really hard on raising these animals so it was difficult for some of them to see their animals go,” said Board President Ron Offenberger.

(Photo by Amber Phipps) A young girl at the Washington County Fair leads her goat into the show arena to get in line for the livestock auction on Tuesday. The auction began at 1 p.m. to conclude the final day of the county fair.

This marks Offenberger’s second year as board president. He said it was his first time being involved in the livestock sale process because he participated in the auction as a bidder last year.

“I was the one in the ring directing the kids on where to take their animals depending on what option the bidder wanted,” he said.

The bidders could decide on if they wanted it processed for them, to find their own processing company, or keep the animal and decide later.

He said the Fast Traxx event Tuesday evening was also a success, especially with the weather.

“We really had excellent weather and the fact that it wasn’t super hot definitely got people out to the fair this year,” said Offenberger. “It rained last year on Saturday and it was really disappointing, so this year was much better.”

Board Treasurer Emily Griffin said Monday that they had 10,000 people attend during the weekend and the weather played a huge part in that. She said that since it wasn’t super hot or rainy like it’d been in the past, more people showed up.

They both agreed that one aspect of the fair that needed to be evaluated was the parking situation.

“It’s hard to say what exactly we’ll end up changing for next year but the parking definitely needs to be changed,” said Offenberger. “We might spray paint lines in the field so that there’s some organization.”

He said that a recurring issue this year was that people were parking closer to the gates and not leaving any spaces for handicap. He said there were also a few times that someone would park weirdly and end up blocking off access to an area which resulted in even less parking spaces.

“There isn’t enough room for everyone to come and go if people aren’t parking correctly, and we try to keep people closer in those fields but the handicap needs to be the closest to the gates and everyone needs to accommodate that,” he said.

Overall, the fair was a success according to the board and they’re excited to start planning for next year. For more information, go to www.washcountyfair.com