Shooting Sports Spring Instructor Workshop

The Spring Shooting Sports Workshop at Canter’s Cave 4-H Camp is now open. We are seeking new and current instructors to join us for a weekend full of learning, connection building, fun and much more to prepare them with updated teaching practices and policies to take to their county program! Passing along the information to your Shooting Sports Volunteers is greatly appreciated. Attached is a flyer you can send out or share. The registration link is below.

https://go.osu.edu/springssworkshop

The workshop is April 4-6 and the registration deadline is March 3. You can find information about this workshop on the state 4-H Shooting sports page (see link below). Junior Leaders are welcome to attend this workshop.

https://go.osu.edu/ssstatetraining

Spring Into 4-H

Save the Date! March 5 from 5pm-7pm at the Extension Office

Our Spring into 4-H showcase is your 4-H Club’s chance to share a hands-on activity with potential new members and families!

Contact the Extension Office to reserve your space and identify your activity – what great leadership and community service this would be!

 

Poultry Quality Assurance at Dayton Fancy Feathers Spring Poultry Show

 

SAVE THE DATE  – Ohio 4-H Poultry Quality Assurance will be presented during the Dayton Fancy Feathers’ Spring Poultry Show in Greenville, OH on April 26

For those exhibiting in the JUNIOR Show and/or Showmanship contest, this Quality Assurance training will be a great chance to get this important training checked off your to-do list.

 

Ohio 4-H & FFA Hockey Night

Hosted by The Ohio State University College of Food, Agriculture, and Environmental Sciences (CFAES) on Thursday, February 27 from 4:30-6:30pm in Columbus, this unique event connects 4-H and FFA Members with CFAES!

Pre-game Activities and tours include:

  • CFAES Campus Tour from student ambassadors.
  • Academic Program Fair, Majors & Careers Game: Connect with campus-based students and staff.

Grab some supper before the Buckeyes face Michigan at 8pm!

Space is limited, so register early! Use the following link to sign up: Register Now!

 

Backyard Poultry Online Course

 

Whether your flocks provides for your family or as a 4-H Project, this “cheep” online course is designed to provide you with the knowledge and resources necessary to take flight!

The Backyard Poultry Certification Course is self-paced and expected to take 2-3 hours. Modules include:

  • Getting Started
  • Brooding, Basic Husbandry, and Nutrition
  • Housing
  • Egg Production
  • Maximizing Health
  • Biosecurity

After completing this course, learners will be able to:

  • Identify rules and regulations relevant to raising backyard poultry
  • Source healthy birds to raise in their backyard
  • Apply concepts of basic husbandry, nutrition and housing of poultry
  • Explain how eggs are produced
  • Practice safe handling of birds and eggs
  • Recognize common health-related abnormalities
  • Describe the roles of veterinary care and biosecurity in poultry

To learn more check out – go.osu.edu/chicken or email Tim McDermott at mcdermott.15@osu.edu

4-H Fundraising Opportunity

Jasper Kitchen + Bar offers a Dine to Donate program every Monday with 10% of sales going to an area youth organization. If you’d like to learn more or schedule your own Dine to Donate, please check out this website – https://www.jasperkitchenandbar.com/dine-to-donate

You could email Melissa at jasperkitchenandbar@gmail.com