Scramble night allows hard working 4-h'ers to blow off some steam

[August 03, 2018]  By midweek of the Logan County Fair, 4-H competitions are about half-way over, and it's a good time to blow off some steam with wholesome fun. What better than to take cluster of kids and a herd, flock, drift, trip or drove of animals and turn them loose together telling the kids go catch one.

Scrambles night is a bit more organized than that; but the thrills, spills, dives and dodges provide barrels of fun to watch each year and this year was brought much hilarity to all, even the competitors.

Children are organized by age groups with youngest turned out to catch a chicken. The younguns quickly learn just how fast a flighty, wily hen can be, and for that matter, the hen might be thinking the same of the kids, "Boy she's quick! He's faster than I thought."

Next up, older kids try to harness a 'kid,' not a kid child, a goat.

Then pre-teens must muster their will power, and coordinate their brain and muscle power to wrangle a remarkably slippery, and heavy, greased pig over to a check-point. Absolutely not an easy task. Those pigs just seem to slip away and it's start all over, all the while getting more greasy and slippery all over.

Last up, maturing teens harness a calf, we're talking some bulk-a-tude here, which they can later take home to raise for next year's 4-H competition.

The evening includes a spot of alumni fun and games, and 4-H Scholarship presentations.

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