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4-H Goat projects help youths master many skills With Kentucky among top goat producers, more you are adding goat projects By Tony Rose, Adair County Youth Extension Agent The next Adair County 4-H Goat Club meeting will be on January 2, 2007. This meeting will be held at the Adair County Cooperative Extension Service located at 409 Fairground Street and will start at 6:00pm CT. With Kentucky among the top states in goat production, more youth are adding goat projects to their 4-H Youth Development activities. Dairy and meat goat projects enable youth to master numerous important skills. Participation in these projects helps youth learn about many aspects of production, management and marketing, gain independence, network with youth and adults, and share their 4-H youth development knowledge with others. Youth will continue to benefit from the practical and life skills learned through 4-H youth development, as they make career decisions and become productive citizens who contribute to their communities. While selecting, caring for, showing and marketing livestock, youth develop and practice many skills. These include observing, thinking logically and critically, making decisions, planning, organizing and communicating. Members also learn to prioritize resources such as time and money; establish long-term goals and accept differences of opinion. In the market goat project, a 4-H member buys a young kid, feeds and cares for it, fits and grooms it, shows it and finally sells the goat. Youth learn about breeds, health care, grooming, production, reproduction, management, showmanship, marketing and careers. A 4-H member who selects a dairy goat project also feeds, cares for, fits, grooms and shows goats. In addition, the member exhibits breeding goats (bucks and does), but these aren't sold. Instead, the 4-Her keeps the goats and continues to care for them to produce milk and kids. Youth can keep goats to show, sell to market or sell to other members as project animals, and sell the does' milk. Dairy goat project topics focus on selection, body parts, breeds, management, records, safety, disease prevention, feed ingredients, grooming, showmanship, exhibiting and judging, giving oral reasons, delivering a kid, caring for a newborn, performing management practices, health problems and disease and hay quality. In this project, youth also learn to determine body condition scores, develop a herd calendar and formulate a ration. 4-H members reveal the knowledge and skills they developed by planning a judging contest, evaluating a herd and selecting a breeding system. Materials for 4-H goat projects have many experientially-based activities. For more information on all 4-H youth development projects, contact your Adair County Cooperative Extension Service. If you have any questions, please contact Tony Rose at the Adair County Cooperative Extension Service located at 409 Fairground Street or call at (270) 384-2317. Educational programs of the Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service serve all people regardless of race, color, age, sex, religion, disability, or national origin. This story was posted on 2006-12-22 12:06:03
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