Kerr County Officials Participate In, Host Cowboy Breakfast at Courthouse to Kick Off Stock Show Season

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KERR COUNTY Sheriff Larry Leitha throws what would be one of the top 3 entries in the Cow Chip Toss contest featured as part of the Jan. 2 Cowboy Breakfast. The event hosted at the Kerr County Courthouse grounds signals the start of stock show season in the county. - Photo by Lisa Walter/Kerr County Public Relations

Before daybreak on Tuesday, Jan. 2, local county and city elected officials, 4-H and FFA students, their parents and supporters all gathered to mark the return of the annual Cowboy Breakfast to the grounds of the Kerr County Courthouse, 700 Main Street in Kerrville.

The annual event featuring a breakfast with coffee and orange juice offered such highlights as a cow chip toss contest and a goat milking contest to the amusement of participants and those watching from the crowd gathered around the flatbed trailer at the center of the action.

Kerr County commissioners and Kerrville City Council members competed in the Cow Chip Toss. After a three-way tie between Kerr County Sheriff Larry Leitha and Kerrville City Council members Jeff Harris and Brenda Hughes, there was a toss-off and Harris prevailed.

In the goat milking contest, the partnership between Security State Bank and Trust's David Vann and the Kerrville Daily Times' Chelsea Fore won after their yield of milk measured about 1" at the end of the 60-seconds of milking.

Rounds of project animal judging start bright and early Wednesday, Jan. 3, and will continue through Friday, Jan. 5. The county show will culminate in a 1 p.m. sale on Saturday, Jan. 6.

2024 Kerr County Stock Show Schedule:

Wednesday, Jan. 3
8 a.m. - Meat goat does and breeding sheep arrive
10 a.m. - Meat goat doe classification
10 a.m. - Breeding sheep papers turn in time
11 a.m. - Judging of meat goat does, with breeding sheep show to follow
11 a.m. - Market lambs and market meat goats to arrive
4 p.m. - Weigh-in of market lambs, with meat goats immediately following

Thursday, Jan. 4
8 a.m. - Judging of market lambs, with market meat goats judging to follow
Noon - Market swine, gilts, steers and heifers to arrive
5 p.m. - Cattle weigh-in and classification
5 p.m. - Classification and weigh-in of market swine, followed by the weigh-in of all pedigreed and non-pedigreed breeding swine (All swine must weigh in)
5 p.m. - Registered breeding gilt papers turn in time

Friday, Jan. 5
9 a.m. - Judging of market swine, with the breeding gilts show following 30 minutes after market show
9 a.m. - Judging of market steers with heifers following 30 minutes after the market show

Saturday, Jan. 6
10 a.m. - Buyer registration begins
11 a.m. - Buyer luncheon
1 p.m. - Kerr County Stock Show Sale