The Bacon Maker Classic returned to the Ontario Pork Congress on June 20, 2024, for the first time since 2019.
The 4-H swine show had 28 members who registered and 26 brought their pigs to Stratford for the show.
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All the pigs coming to the show had to be tested the week before for Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea and Deltacoronavirus. A Danish entry is a common way for farmers to make sure that outside materials don’t enter their barns and a type of Danish entry was used at the show. Anyone entering the show area where the pigs were housed had to put on biosecurity boots, after stopping at a bench that kept outside shoes without covers on one side, and people wearing biosecurity boots on the other.
Watch Kelly deBruyn and Lauren Ball, who both started in the Oxford 4-H Swine Club when they were nine, talk about what one needs to know about showing pigs.
