As per the CCHA membership form and the CCHA sign up sheet:  In order to receive Year End Awards you must volunteer 6 hours per show season. Four of the six hours may be worked by others appointed by you; but as of 2010, you will be responsible to work two hours of your volunteer time, personally.   It is your responsibility to have those hours recorded at the Show Office before the end of each show.

Please, pre-register using the membership form

Welcome to the new year, welcome to the new show staff and its officers, and welcome to the 2010 show season.  Get ready for the first show in the park in March.

Here are the changes that you will need to know about: 

Volunteer time will continue to be six hours required for year-end awards; however, two of those six hours will have to be logged- in and worked by the exhibitor.  As usual, log- in will be done in the show trailer.  Just let the staff know who is working and a start/stop time. 

The show staff requires that Classes 1-7 MUST BE be signed up by 7:45 AM. The show will start promptly at 8:00 AM.

Also, show staff requires that all tack changes must be written on the sign-up sheet.  The announcer will announce a five-minute tack change, based on the information.  Otherwise, the one minute gate call will apply.  If you have not requested a tack change, the gate will be closed and you will not be allowed to enter the ring.

The class sheet will have a few changes….

ADDED:  Games 4H Barrel Class.

DELETED:  Junior Eq. Over Fences  2'

ADDED:  Adult Hunter W/T, Junior W/T

DELETED:  Western Trail Class

ADDED:  Western Parents and Grooms

Is your hay suitable for horses? Steve Foster, extension educator with the University of Nevada-Reno, offers these guidelines for evaluating hay:

• Horse hay should be 10-17% moisture and about 10% crude protein. Crude protein is not likely to be a limiting part of the diet except in lactating mares, foals or performance horses, which require higher
  levels.

• Hay with an acid detergent fiber (ADF) value of 30-35% is good for horses. The lower the ADF value, the more digestible the nutrients in the hay. Hay at 45% or more ADF is of little nutritional value. Neutral detergent fiber (NDF) levels should be 40-50%, and most horses won’t eat anything above 65%.

• Equine feed analyses provide non-fiber carbohydrate (NFC) estimates to help select feed for horses that show sensitivity to starches and sugars and measure digestible energy (DE) in the hay. For a light working horse, DE should be about 20 Mcal/day, and most hays range from 0.76 to 0.94 Mcal/lb of DE. Calcium and phosphorus ratios can vary among
  different types of hay. An adult horse in a maintenance phase should have a calcium-to-phosphorus ratio of 3:1 to 1:1.

• Rained-on hay may be fine for horses in spite of the color. Green is ideal but overrated. Green is an indication of Vitamin A content and means that the hay has not been rained on prior to baling. Actually, rained-on hay (unless it received a lot of rain over several days) is only slightly lower in nutritive value than hay that was not rained on. That loss in value is usually due to more leaf loss due to more handling to dry the hay for baling. If it isn’t moldy and it tests okay, it should be fine to feed because horse owners should be supplementing for the vitamins that tend to be lost in rained-on or older hay, anyway.

Contact your local extension agents for help testing hay! It only costs about $10

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Carolina Classic Horseman's Association
139 Country Place Road
Wilmington NC 28409
(910) 799-9257 * (910) 352-2923