Colorado 4-H Project E-Record Selector
4-H Livestock Projects - Swine
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Market Swine
This project is for member’s ages 8-18 years old. This project is designed for those members who want to learn more about the swine industry by directly caring for a pig. Members will accomplish the following learning experiences:
- Learn about raising pigs
- Learn to accept responsibility by having an animal to care for regularly
- Learn the principles of animal nutrition and how to balance rations to feed your animals
- Learn to care for, train and handle animal safely
- Learn how to take care of equipment
- Learn how to select meat-type pigs
- Learn how to protect the health of swine and proper feeding methods
- How to show your animal
- Learn the principles of livestock judging through participate in county judging program
- Exhibit animal on tour, achievement day, or at a fair
- Explore the career opportunities in the pork 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
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
