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NOTE: This project fills up quickly. Priority for this project is given to members that HAVE NOT taken this project before. It is the same curriculum covered every year.
Poultry Project
Poultry Project
In the Poultry Project, youth get hands-on experience learning how to care for chickens. Kids will explore everything from choosing healthy birds and feeding them, to understanding their behavior and collecting eggs. Along the way, they’ll learn responsibility, record-keeping, and how animals contribute to our food system.
Learning Goals
Learn the basic needs of poultry: food, water, shelter, and space.
Practice safe handling of chickens.
Understand egg production and how to care for eggs.
Explore breeds and their different purposes (egg-layers, meat birds, show breeds).
Develop responsibility by feeding and cleaning regularly.
Share what they’ve learned through presentations, record books, or posters.
Have fun and Make Friends
Age: 5-19
Limit: 10 members
When: 1st Thursdays, Oct - Apr 5:30-7:00pm
Where: Leader's house near Vannoy Elementary
Cost: free for members
Project Leaders: Vanessa and Paul Grazzini
10 fun facts about chickens
Chickens are living descendants of dinosaurs.
Chickens aren't completely flightless.
Chickens can dream.
Chickens have better color vision than humans.
Chickens have complex communication.
Chickens have great memories.
Chickens bathe by covering themselves in dirt.
Chickens have a pecking order.
Egg shell color can be determined by the hen’s earlobe.
Chickens are very intelligent animals.
A Project Leader will contact you with event locations, dates and times. If you do not hear from your project leader and your youth membership has been approved by county, please contact Redwood 4-H Enrollment Coordinator at 4hredwoodenrollment @ gmail.com (remove spaces around @ ).
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