Photos from the 2011 Rock County 4-H Fair taken by Gazette photographers.
Caleb Thunberg, left, and Erich Albrecht of Rockford, Ill., tear down tents Monday at the Rock County 4-H Fairgrounds in Janesville. The fair ended Sunday night. Fair attendance for the week totaled 73,985 visitors.
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Photo By: Lukas Keapproth
Not all the Mutton Busters at the Rock County 4H fair had good luck. 4 year old Wesley Egan made an early exit off the back of his sheep during the Sunday event.
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Photo By: Bill Olmsted
Emma Bussan, 8, takes a tumble from her mount during the Mutton Busting event at the Rock County fair.
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8 year old Maddie O'Leary shows good form as she rides a sheep around the arena at the Rock County 4H Fair's Mutton Busting event.
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Tim O’Connell hangs on during the bareback riding event during the Three Hills Rodeo at the Rock County 4-H Fair in Janesville on Saturday.
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Photo By: Lukas Keapproth
Mackenzie Nickels of Plymouth 4-H poses with her Jersy cow, Basil, who won the award for Supreme Champion at the Rock County 4-H Fair Saturday afternoon.
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Rachel Gerbitz of LaPrairie 4-H trims the top line on her dairy heifer Andi while preparing for the dairy show on Friday.
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Kennedy Lee, 7, of Janesville, smiles after being burried in corn kernels by friends from the LSS Child's First Daycare Center at the Ag Business of Rock County tent at the Rock County 4-H Fair on Friday.
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Jim Raymond of M&I Bank makes a bid during the Rock County 4-H Fair Meat Animal Sale on Friday.
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Courtney Burdick holds a sign with pictures of her champion dairy and her reserve champion rate of gain entry as auctioneer Ryan George recognizes a bid during the meat animal sale at the Rock County 4-H Fair on Friday.
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Marianne Teubert and her daughter Felicia, 8, dodge puddles as rain comes down steadily at the Rock County 4-H Fair on Thursday.
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Emily Saari, 17, reacts after her father, Robert, falls into the pool during a log rolling exhibition at the Rock County 4-H Fair on Thursday.
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Austin Lynd poses with his champion steer at the Rock County 4-H Fair
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Hannah Shilts, 16, poses with her winning goat, Alice, at the Rock County 4-H Fair
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Skylar Cousin devours a slice of cherry pie during the eating contest at the Rock County 4-H Fair on Thursday.
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Natalee Lynd of Bradford 4-H and her grand champion barrow "Steven" at the Rock County 4-H Fair.
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Jessica Duoss of Milton FFA and her grand champion market lamb "Rock" at the Rock County 4-H Fair.
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Carl Strich deals to sisters Molly and April Wellnitz while playing Euchre to pass time at the Rock County 4-H Fair in Janesville on Wednesday.
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Lexia Olsen, 12, and Cheyanna Becherer, 14, practice their roping skills at the Rock County 4-H Fair in Janesville on Wednesday
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Shyann Hubanks brushes soap suds on her cow at the Rock County 4-H fair in Janesville on Wednesday.
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Ella Johnson, 13, Sara Malmanger, 13, Gabbi Olson, 13, and Abby Platts, 12, all from Janesville, enjoy the Ferris wheel ride at the Rock County 4-H Fair on Wednesday.
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Photo By: Lukas Keapproth
Baylin Crull, 7, of Evansville, is showered in kernels of corn at one of the play areas at the Rock County 4-H Fair on Wednesday.
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Rock County 4-H Fair King Grant Francis of Newark Pioneers 4-H and Queen Sydney Beaty of Milton 4-H on Tuesday.
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Hannah Koehn, 11, of Milton 4-H, pets Nala, her sister Haley's Jersey dairy cow, at the Rock County 4-H Fair on Tuesday.
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Morgan Wywialowski, 6, hoses off her friend Suzanne Henning's heifer Blackcap at the Rock County 4-H Fairgrounds on Friday.
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Bill and Linda Dooley watch some of the action at the Rock County Fair from their front porch on E. Memorial Drive in Janesville. They have been fair neighbors for 49 years.
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Devin Witte, 8, of Bradford 4-H Cloverbuds gets a nibble on the nose from a Nigerian dwarf goat that belongs to his brothers Dylan and Dalton while sitting in the pen with his friend Chris Spears, 8, also of Bradford 4-H Cloverbuds at the the Rock County 4-H Fair on Tuesday.
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Sarina Smith of the Clinton 4-H Club staples up a four-leaf clover decoration at the club’s goat barn display Monday in preparation for the Rock County 4-H Fair, which starts today.
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Bethany Sly, right, of Avon 4-H gets help from her sister Kayla as they herd her gilt crossbred pig into a trailer after the breeding show Monday at the fairgrounds.
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Niel Swarts of North American Midway out of Jackson, Miss., has a birds-eye view of the Rock County 4-H Fairgrounds while assembling the giant Ferris wheel Monday.
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Fair board member John Quinn puts some finishing touches on one of the new Rock County 4-H Fair ticket booths that he built for this year's fair.
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Tyler Long, 18, carefully creates the wooden sides of his pirate ship cake using a chocolate and vanilla marbled fondant at The Cake Box in Orfordville. Long, a member of the Center 4-H Club, is working on a project for the Rock County 4-H Fair, which begins Tuesday.
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Photo By: Lukas Keapproth
Using protective gloves and under the watchful eye of his mother, Kyle Long, 9, pours hot wax into cups of shredded paper to create firestarters as a 4-H project. Kyle and his brothers, Ryan and Tyler, all participate in the Rock County 4-H Fair with projects.
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Ryan Long, 11, works on his leaf collection for a Rock County 4H fair project. Ryan and his brothers Kyle and Tyler, all participate in 4H from their rural Orfordville home.
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