Poultry
Description
Poultry is a statewide 4-H project. It features curriculum that
will guide you through the project. For a copy contact your County
4-H Office or order online at: Extension
Publications.
Poultry 1
This beginning project is aimed at grades 3-5. It’s not necessary that you own an animal. Activities include identifying poultry breeds, parts of a bird, and parts and functions of eggs; cooking eggs; designing a brooding arrangement for chicks; handling poultry; selecting pullets; fitting and showing poultry; and more.
BU6363, Scratching the Surface
CIR878, From Egg to Chick
MA, Meat Animal Project Record
Poultry 2
This intermediate project is aimed at grades 6-8. Learn to observe a healthy flock, identify parts and functions of a bird’s skeleton, discover how an egg is formed, select and judge broilers, determine peck order, select hens for egg production, imprint with chicks, prevent poultry diseases, and more.
BU6364, Testing Your Wings
4H281, Poultry for Fun & Food
A2880, Chicken Breeds & Varieties
MA, Meat Animal Project Record
Poultry 3
This advanced project is aimed at grades 9-12. Learn to organize a judging clinic, manage a laying flock, mount a chicken skeleton, discover qualities of eggs, handle poultry products safely, process a chicken, explore poultry-related careers, and more.
BU6365, Flocking Together
MA, Meat Animal Project Record
Waterfowl
Learn about waterfowl breeds and parts, brooding and rearing, handling, sexing waterfowl, selecting and preparing waterfowl for market, selecting and managing breeder flocks, incubating and exhibiting waterfowl, and more.
A3311, Raising Waterfowl
MA, Meat Animal Project Record
Turkeys
Learn about buying poultry, preparing a brooding area, rearing range turkeys, feeding and watering, lighting, preventing diseases, marketing and processing turkeys, and more.
NCR060, Raising a Small Turkey Flock
MA, Meat Animal Project Record
Bantams
Discover the value and purpose of bantams, and their characteristics, breeds, and varieties. Learn how to get started raising bantams, secure breeding stock, select and mate bantams, incubate and rear their young, feed and house them, protect them from diseases and parasites, fit and show them at your county fair, and more.
NCR209, Bantams
MA, Meat Animal Project Record
Pigeons
Learn about the buying, behavior, feeding, banding, record keeping, housing, handling, training, grooming and exhibiting of pigeons, and more.
4H135, Pigeons
Poultry Leader
BU6366, Poultry Group Activity Guide
4H500, I’m a 4-H Project Leader. Now What Do I Do?
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Events
Want to learn more about Poultry? Try the links below.
Poultry Project Training
Many counties hold local training for members and leaders in
their favorite project areas, including poultry. Watch your county
4-H Family newsletter or contact your county Extension office for
details.
Wisconsin 4-H Area Animal Science Days
Series of four day-long events held around the state where youth
in the beef, dairy, horse, sheep and swine projects increase their
decision making skills and knowledge of animals through judging
and grading experiences. Events include evaluation of dairy cattle,
horses and meat animals; dairy showmanship contests; hippology (the
study of horses); and oral reasons workshops. In addition, each
site offers a variety of workshops for small animal projects, which
may include rabbits, poultry, dogs, cats or llamas.
Wisconsin 4-H and Youth
Conference
If you’re in grades 8-10, check out the next Wisconsin
4-H and Youth Conference, scheduled each June at the UW-Madison
campus. The conference offers educational seminars in most areas
of 4-H. Contact your county Extension office for details.
Wisconsin State Fair
Annual 11-day event held in August at State Fair Park, West
Allis, WI. Events include the Avian Quiz Bowl, a contest that tests
knowledge of avian anatomy and physiology, poultry management, chicken
breeds and varieties, and eggs and egg products. Teams of three
or four members compete head-to-head in a game-show format.
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Related Links
There’s so much more to learn in the 4-H Poultry Project.
Just follow these links!
American Bantam Association
Site with information on bantam chickens and ducks, with many
links to bantam chicken services and products.
American Egg Board
AEB’s goal is to improve the demand for shell eggs, egg
products, as well as spent fowl throughout the United States.
American Poultry Association
APA promotes the standard-bred poultry industry and encourages
poultry shows as “the show window of our industry, an education
for both breeders and public, and a means of interesting young future
breeders in taking up poultry.”
Bantam
Roost
Housing ideas and plans for small flocks of poultry.
Egg Nutrition Center
This site is for egg lovers, egg producers and processors, nutritionists
and health care providers, and anyone who wants to learn more about
eggs and good nutrition.
National Chicken Council
Source of information on chicken nutrition, cooking tips, and
current statistics.
National 4-H Curriculum
Visit this site for updated National 4-H Curriculum information including new titles. Purchase curricula by accessing the online order form.
National Turkey Federation
At this site you’ll find everything you want to know about
turkey, from recipe and preparation tips to cooking demonstrations.
Oconto County 4-H Project Resources
This web site provides links for many animal science projects
including links for fun project ideas on bantams, pigeons, poultry,
turkeys and waterfowl.
Poultry
Connection
Site includes a large list of hatcheries.
Poultry Press Newspaper
Poultry Press is a monthly publication for those who raise,
show or have an interest in poultry. This site provides articles,
merchandise, as well as subscription information.
Poultry
Science Club
For UW-Madison students with an interest in poultry. Meetings
are held monthly. Activities include trips to Atlanta for the International
Poultry Expo (each January) and to St. Paul for the Midwest Poultry
Convention (each March).
National 4-H
“Embryology in the Classroom” Project
Features classroom hatching projects and classroom experiments
in poultry science for elementary and middle school youth.
University of Nebraska, Lincoln County 4-H
Interesting embryology information, including photos and movie
clips on incubating and candling eggs.
U. S. Poultry & Egg
Association
The Association is the world’s largest poultry organization.
It represents the entire industry as an “All Feather”
association, including producers and processors of broilers, turkeys,
ducks, eggs, and breeding stock, as well as allied companies. The
Association sponsors the International Poultry Exposition.
UW-Extension
Animal Sciences: Poultry
Site with information on newsletters, resources, events, and
links to poultry sites.
UW-Madison
Steenbock Library Resource Guide: Poultry
Guide to links for many poultry-related sites.
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Project Support
For more information on the 4-H Poultry Project, contact the following:
Cooperative Extension
Media Collection
This lending library features several resources on poultry.
UW-Extension County 4-H
Offices
This is your link to a list of Wisconsin County Extension Offices.
Select the county of your choice.
UW-Extension
State Specialist: Ron Kean
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