4-H-er thread!

waddles99 · Nov 23, 2016

shadow rabbit10 said:
I think it depends on the club, but I've always thought 4-H taught a variety of useful skills other than animal-related ones. My club was very big on promoting community service and education. 4-H is how I got most of my community service hours actually. The whole club was always very involved in community service and we would always make it one of our yearly goals to reach a certain amount of volunteer hours. Leadership was also a big part of my club. Even when someone wasn't an officer we would still assign older members leadership tasks to gain experience. Every year my club would do a non-animal related educational display at the fair (usually environmental) and we would assign a member to coordinate it. I did this for about 3 years and I gained a lot of leadership and organizational skills through it. I also held various officer positions over the years. I don't know if I would have gained these leadership skills without 4-H. Every club is different, and some are very animal-focused, but I know my county, especially my rabbit club, was always big on promoting service, leadership, and other skills. We even have a public speaking requirement for every member.

Weird....that could not be further from my experience. It depends on the county, I guess.

MagpieDucks · Nov 28, 2016

I got Reserve Champion on my magpies and got GC in Junior Showmanship at the county fair in August!

waddles99 · Nov 29, 2016

ViolinPlayer123 said:
I got Reserve Champion on my magpies and got GC in Junior Showmanship at the county fair in August!

Reserve champ what? Pigeon?

MagpieDucks · Nov 29, 2016

waddles99 said:
Quote: Ducks

waddles99 · Nov 29, 2016

ViolinPlayer123 said:
Ducks

Ah. I know there are such thing as magpie pigeons but have never heard of the ducks. I don't really do any other types of poultry besides LF chickens. At our fair there are only probably 5 ducks, if that, so the class is extremely easy to win let alone get reserve in.

I Love Layers · Dec 26, 2016

Already preparing for 2018 or maybe even 2017 fairs!

For county I'll take other birds too but this is just my cochin list

henny1129 · Dec 26, 2016

I Love Layers said:
Already preparing for 2018 or maybe even 2017 fairs!

For county I'll take other birds too but this is just my cochin list

Awesome!

waddles99 · Dec 26, 2016

I Love Layers said:
Already preparing for 2018 or maybe even 2017 fairs!

For county I'll take other birds too but this is just my cochin list

Always good to be prepared. I generally never have no idea what I am going to take to shows. Whatever is in condition and I think has a shot I'll take.