4 H Display Education Board Ideas Beef
The 4-H Beef Cattle project area consists of three project manuals. Each manual covers three years of activities.
- In Bite Into Beef (Beef 1), you will identify breeds, locate beef parts, judge, halter break a calf, fit a steer, show a calf, recognize a healthy animal, select feed ingredients, and shop for beef and beef by-products.
- Here's the Beef (Beef 2) provides challenging activities related to leg structure, oral reasons, feed ingredients, behavior, nose printing, parasites, fitting, ethical issues, beef carcass composition and retail meat cuts.
- Leading the Charge (Beef 3) encourages more in-depth learning about selection and judging, feeding, careers, health and reproduction, and meats and marketing.
If a member completes the 9 years of project manuals, they can work with their county Extension professionals to determine their learning opportunities for their remaining 4-H years.
Scoresheets
Each year, 4-H members should complete 7 activities in the project manual as well as the planning pages at the beginning of the manual.
There are not separate documents with the scoresheets for beef cattle project series. Scoresheets can be located inside the Record Guides on page 2.
Record Guides
Youth who has selected a Beef Cattle 4-H project typically are raising an animal as part of their project work. A project record guide is part of the animal science project experience. If you enroll with an animal, you will need to select the Breeding Livestock Record Guide (4-H Beef Heifer/Cow) or Market Livestock Record Guide (Feeder Calf or Market Beef) to accompany this project. Record guides are available in both a print and electronic format.
Paper Record Guides
Market Livestock Record Guides (ages based on Jan 1st of current 4-H year)- Ages 8-10 – Beginner Market Livestock Record Guide
- Ages 11-13 – Intermediate Market Livestock Record Guide
- Ages 14-20 – Advanced Market Livestock Record Guide
Breeding Livestock Record Guides (ages based on Jan 1st of current 4-H year)
- Ages 8-10 – Beginner Breeding Livestock Record Guide
- Ages 11-13 – Intermediate Breeding Livestock Record Guide
- Ages 14-20 – Advanced Breeding Livestock Record Guide
For most species, the supplement records are lifetime production records, so the 4-H member updates these each year that an animal is a part of their project. Members will need to complete a supplement sheet for each animal included in their record guide. These supplement records will be available online only.
- Individual HEIFER/COW Record
Electronic Record Guides
Beef-less Beef Cattle Project
If you enroll in this project area without an animal, check with your local Extension professional for approval and guidelines.
Exhibit Ideas
- Most youth in this project area will exhibit an animal at a livestock show.
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Poster, Story, and/or Model on one of the following topics:
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Beef 1 - identifying breeds, locating beef parts, judging, halter breaking a calf, fitting a steer, showing a calf, recognizing a healthy animal, selecting feed ingredients, and shopping for beef and beef by-products.
- Beef 2 - beef quality assurance, nutritional needs, beef digestive system, safety and ethics, beef judging, and grading beef.
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Beef 3 - selection and judging, feeding, careers, health and reproduction, or meats and marketing.
- Examples of Blue Ribbon Exhibits
How Do I Sign Up?
When you get to the CLUBS tab of the enrollment, you will want to ADD PROJECT.
For Beef Cattle, you should search for:
- RECORD GUIDE - BREEDING LIVESTOCK / BEEF HEIFER/COW YEAR 1 - BITE INTO THE BEEF
- RECORD GUIDE - MARKET LIVESTOCK / MARKET BEEF YEAR 1 - BITE INTO THE BEEF
- RECORD GUIDE - MARKET LIVESTOCK / FEEDER CALF YEAR 1 - BITE INTO THE BEEF
Project Videos
Coming soon!
Related Events & Camps
No events available at this time.
Animal Health & Quality Assurance (AH&QA)
Youth exhibitors required to complete the online quality assurance training must do so starting April 1st and no later than June 30th in order to exhibit at any fair, festival or show taking place the remainder of that calendar year in West Virginia.
Source: https://extension.wvu.edu/youth-family/4h/projects/4h-animal-science-projects/4h-beef-cattle-projects
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