Our 4-H youth can work with breeding & market rabbits, breeding & market chickens, turkeys, ducks and/or pigeons. These projects deal with similar issues as our livestock projects but on a much smaller scale. Youth also learn about selection, care, and feeding of small animals, animal health, and importance of good record keeping. This gives them a well-rounded education about their animals and what it takes to raise them. All small animal projects require the youth to take the Youth for the Meat Quality Assurance (MQA) training that is provided each year.
The poultry project is designed to help you learn about chickens, turkeys and other poultry. Through your work in this project, you will acquire an understanding of scientific poultry management and marketing practices. You will gain business experiences and insight is not the values and principles of purchasing, marketing, financial record keeping and obtaining credit.
Starting Out, Beginner
Inspiring youth to:
Learning More, Intermediate
Exploring Depth, Advanced
Project Overview
Online Manuals
Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) Information
Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Outbreak in United States
Animal Care and Housing Form(PDF, 102KB)
Breeding Animal ID Form Instructions(PDF, 239KB)