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, 2025.

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.

 

Bees LOVE 4-Her’s Clover! and Beekeepers Love 4-H

4-Her’s interested in Beekeeping? Apply for their scholarship!

• Seeking motivated, mature youth in 4-H
to apply for GCBA scholarship
• Scholarship is a 4 body hive kit,
mentoring, and more!
• Full information and requirements
found at: https://
gcba.ohiostatebeekeepers.org/
welcome/gcba-4-h-beekeepingproject/
• Applications due March 10, 2023

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