Colorado 4-H Project e-Record Selector
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Breeding Turkey
This project is for member’s ages 8-18 years old. This project is designed for youth who have little or no experience raising poultry. Members will accomplish the following learning experiences:
- Learn about poultry and egg parts
- Learn about poultry breeds
- How to care for and handle your birds
- How to select pullets
- Showing poultry
- Learn about egg production
- How to recognize a healthy flock
- Learn about skeletal structure of birds
- How to select and judge broilers
- Learn about pecking orders
- How to prevent diseases and make an egg candler
- How to build a budget
- How to organize a judging clinic
- How to manage a laying flock
- How genetics influence poultry characteristics
- How to handle poultry products safely
- How to process chickens for food
- Learn about advances in biotechnology
- Career in the poultry industry
Step 4:
The items listed below are your project requirements. Select each in turn to access a Word Document. Once you have your document, please save it to your hard drive or other media before entering information.
- Colorado 4-H Livestock Project Tip Sheet [ coming soon ]
- Livestock Horse E-Records
(For additional pages of the E-Record, click here to access the Master E-Record page and look at the "single pages".) - 4-H User Guide for Livestock/Horse e-Records
- Breeding Poultry Record
Completion of Project:
- Completed Livestock/Horse E-Record
- Completed Meat Quality Assurance Requirements
Additional Information:
Coming Soon:
- Youth Livestock Website
- Colorado 4-H Livestock/Horse Judging Sheet
- Colorado 4-H Livestock/Horse Judging Fact Sheet
- Colorado 4-H Meat Quality Assurance Fact Sheet
- Colorado 4-H Livestock Primary Care Guidelines
