Hog Calling Contest Planned for Dixon May Fair

By Karen Spencer
Dixon May Fair Marketing Director

What could be more country fair fun than the annual Hog Calling Contest at the Dixon May Fair, now in its 11th year?

Anyone can enter from the 3-year old little girl with the pigtails (get it?) to adult veteran callers such as seven-time champion caller Nick Stacy.

Two 4-H raised hogs will be on hand for the test while contestants have just one minute and a microphone to persuade the porkers to cross the stage to them.

“They can’t entice them with food,” Donnie Huffman, emcee says. “They must use their voice.”Hog calling over the past decade has ranged from snorting, oinking and flopping down in the sawdust (to get their attention) to plaintive calls of "Soo-eey" and "Here, piggy, piggy," and “Here, Bacon Bits."

Youngsters have also created pig poetry and pig songs.

The contest is scheduled for 2:30 on Friday May 10th. The Hog Calling is judged on creativity, originality, audience response and hog response. Age groups are 3-5: 6-13, 14-17 (or still in high school) and adults, 18 and over.

Registration will begin at 2 p.m. There is no entry fee, in the first-come, first-served competition.

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