PHOTOS: Colorado State Fair Opening Day

A look into the first day of the Colorado State Fair in Pueblo, Colo. on Friday, August 25, 2023. (Gabi Broekema)

The first morning of the Colorado State Fair stared with a market hog competition in the Colorado State University Pavilion on Friday, August 25, 2023. (Gabi Broekema)

Market hogs lined up to show off at the first day of the Colorado State Fair in Pueblo, Colo. on Friday, August 25, 2023. (Gabi Broekema)

A worker of the Great American Petting Zoo jumps out of a pen after corralling a goat into it during the first day of the Colorado State Fair in Pueblo, Colo. on Friday, August 25, 2023. (Gabi Broekema)

Allison Plumb, 9, awaits the final scoring for her rounds alongside her hog Wendy during the first day of the Colorado State Fair in Pueblo, Colo. on Friday, August 25, 2023. This was her first time running the hog at the state fair. (Gabi Broekema)

Rabbits sit in cages in the Small Animal building during the first day of the Colorado State Fair in Pueblo, Colo. on Friday, August 25, 2023. They will have their own competition on Saturday, Aug. 26, 2023. (Gabi Broekema)

Market hogs lined up to show off at the first day of the Colorado State Fair in Pueblo, Colo. on Friday, August 25, 2023. (Gabi Broekema)

Slabs of meat are cooked on an enormous grill during the first day of the Colorado State Fair in Pueblo, Colo. on Friday, August 25, 2023. (Gabi Broekema)

The fair rides took off for their first rides of the Colorado State Fair in Pueblo on Friday, Aug. 25, 2023. (Gabi Broekema)

Nicholas VanderPutten, 4, has grown to love the Great American Petting Zoo of the Colorado State Fair in Pueblo, Colo. on Friday, August 25, 2023. In previous years of attending the fair, he was too terrified to even go near the pen, but now he cautiously pets the array of animals. (Gabi Broekema)

Market hogs lined up to show off at the first day of the Colorado State Fair in Pueblo, Colo. on Friday, August 25, 2023. (Gabi Broekema)

The fair rides took off for their first rides of the Colorado State Fair in Pueblo, Colo. on Friday, August 25, 2023. (Gabi Broekema)

Children tentatively pet the animals in the Great American Petting Zoo during the first day of the Colorado State Fair in Pueblo on Friday, Aug. 25, 2023. (Gabi Broekema)

Visitors of the Colorado State Fair enjoy burgers and other fair food at Colorado State Fairgrounds in Pueblo, Colo. on Friday, August 25, 2023. (Gabi Broekema)

Owner of the Pual Bunyan Lumberjack Show Lee LeCapitan goes saws a log during his show on the first day of the Colorado State Fair in Pueblo, Colo. on Friday, August 25, 2023. (Gabi Broekema)

Jarrett Carleo, 3, of Grand Junction blocks out the round noise of the chainsaws during the Paul Bunyan Lumberjack Show at the Colorado State Fair in Pueblo, Colo. on Friday, August 25, 2023. He attended the show with his father Luke and sister Abby who was luck enough to get a chainsaw-carved mini chair for free during the show. (Gabi Broekema)

A scene from the Paul Bunyan Lumberjack Show at the Colorado State Fair in Pueblo, Colo. on Friday, August 25, 2023. (Gabi Broekema)

The crowd of the Paul Bunyan Lumberjack Show received ‘beaver chips’ from the show’s owner Lee LeCapitan during the first day of the Colorado State Fair in Pueblo, Colo. on Friday, August 25, 2023. (Gabi Broekema)