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Warren County 4-H Newsletter: April 20 2022
Upcoming Dates:
April 23: Goat Clinic, 9 am, Building A
April 25: First-Year Dog Training, 7 pm, Event Center
April 27: Poultry Clinic, 6 pm, Event Center
May 2: Food & Fashion Clinic, 6:30 pm, Event Center
May 2: Hog, Market Goat, Market Lamb 4-H Online Upload Due, 4:30 pm
May 2: Market Goat & Market Lamb County Born Forms Due, 4:30 pm, Extension Office
May 5: Final Quality Assurance, 7 pm, Event Center
May 6: G & K Speed Show, 6 pm, Fairgrounds,
May 9: Small Animal Clinic, 6:30 pm, Event Center
4-H Online Animal Uploads
If you are showing a Market Goat, Market Hog, or a Market Lamb, you must register it using 4-H Online, v2.4honline.com, by May 2nd. There are less than 10 animals registered with only 12 days until the deadline, please upload these!
A hard copy of county-born paperwork for goats and lambs is due to the Extension office by May 2nd. Copies of these forms can be found on our website at warren.osu.edu
If you are showing a Horse or a Dog you must register it on 4-H Online by June 1st.
Please use the following help sheets to help you complete this process:
2022 Department Royalty
After your application has been submitted and the application is closed, you will receive a text message from Sr. Superintendent Dana Bullock to schedule your mandatory in-person interview on Tuesday, May 10th.
This application will close on Friday, April 29th at 5:00 PM. No late applications will be accepted.
Applications can be found at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe-ipV9wTCCpDbNxeGlHp6PxQzOZ3BlbInPNkAIOJO8di2eMg/viewform?usp=sf_link
Warren County Junior Fair
Warren County Livestock Judging Team
Practice for the Warren County 4-H Livestock Judging Team is scheduled to start on May 5th at 6:30 p.m. at the Extension office (320 E. Silver Street, Lebanon) The team meets almost every Thursday in May, June, and early July. The Ohio State Fair Judging Contest is on July 28, 2022. Anyone, with an interest in joining the team, needs to send an email to Greg Meyer at meyer.213@osu.edu so that you can be added to the email list.
About the Program
The Warren County 4-H Livestock Judging Program is respected throughout the state. Our teams have won state competitions and have competed well at national contests. We expect to place highly when we go to contests. The Ohio State Fair contest is our priority. Top placing senior teams at the Ohio State Fair are selected to represent Ohio 4-H at National livestock judging contests. Past Warren County 4-H teams have represented Ohio 4-H at contests in Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. In 2011, a team of Warren County 4-Hers finished tenth at the National 4-H Livestock Judging Contest at the North American International Livestock Exposition in Louisville. In the past four years, five Warren County 4-H members were selected for the Ohio 4-H All-Star team which represented Ohio 4-H at the National Contest in Louisville, KY.
Eligibility
Open to any Warren County 4-H member. The teams are divided into divisions by 4-H age. Seniors are 14 years and older and juniors are 13 years and younger. Experience with livestock and livestock judging is not required to participate in this program. We will teach you what you need to know to compete in livestock judging contests.
Urban Immersion Project
Who: Teens ages 15-18 (by the date of the trip)
Where: Washington, DC
When: Friday(6am), September 2nd – Monday, September 5th, 2022
Cost: $170
Teens ages 15-18 are eligible for this 4-day service-learning experience that will build skills and abilities to prepare youth for success in a diverse workplace as well as build a cultural understanding of those who are different. This experience will not be about shopping or sightseeing, although we will visit some monuments and historic sites.
Application Deadline: Friday, July 15th, 2022. The application can be found at https://warren.osu.edu/program-areas/4-h-youth-development/urban-immersion-projec
The state is also hosting Ohio 4-H Special Needs Camp on June 17-19 at Canter's Cave 4-H Camp. Camp applications and more details can be found at https://4hcanterscave.osu.edu/home/experience-it/special-needs-camp
Franklin Aggies
The Franklin Aggies have been busy! The club has been helping the community in various different ways this year.
- In the last 2 meetings, the club members signed cards with inspirational messages for residents of Enclave Senior Living Community in Springboro.
- After the last meeting, the club helped the New Vine Community Church hide Easter eggs for their egg hunt later that day.
- The Saturday before Easter, Kevin Lawson and a willing crew picked up trash on State Route 48.
- Some bunnies stuck around after Easter to hop over to BeeHive Homes of Springboro. The club members and their parents enjoyed the smiles on the residents' faces as they petted and held the furry critters.
4-H Clover Crusaders
The 4H Clover Crusaders had a meeting on Sunday, April 10th. They had K-9 officer Michael Sechrist and his German Shephard, Banshee, from the City of Mason Police Department visit to talk about their adventures together. Banshee gets his name from the popular ride at Kings Island because Kings Island donated the money to purchase and train the dog for the program. K-9 officers are officers that are trained to work with dogs. Dogs can help to sniff out missing persons and track down explosive devices. Banshee is a bomb-sniffing dog. Drug-sniffing dogs are taught to recognize the scents of two or three chemicals while bomb-sniffing dogs, like Banshee, are taught the scents of over twenty materials used to make bombs! This can create havoc in their owner’s house since many of the chemicals they are taught to sniff out can be found in common household cleaners. Banshee was trained in Germany so some of his commands are given in German. Banshee is Sechrist’s first police dog and Mason City Police is the only place Banshee has ever worked. So they both started this journey together. The 4H Clover Crusaders were offered the chance to ask several questions. They got to pet Banshee and also got to see inside Officer Secrist’s cruiser.
Please see the flyer below concerning the upcoming clinic on May 14! All are welcome! Also, the following weekend, May 21, we will be conducting a milking demonstration at the Annual Rod’s Project fundraiser at the Clinton County fairgrounds. We hope to have some dairy kids explain to the public how to milk a cow even if they don’t do any of the milkings. More to come. Please try to get on the Zoom meeting Monday at 7. Natasha Neal has put together a good presentation on what to know concerning project books and other items. Hopefully, by the time you read this, we will have all the cattle in place for everyone to start working with them. Van Beek Natural Sciences-Livestock will be donating T-shirts for all the dairy kids to wear for showmanship! Please forward size requirements to Natasha so they can get them ordered. This is very generous of them and I hope to send them many pictures!!
OSU Extension, Warren County
Email: stevens.1068@osu.edu
Website: warren.osu.edu
Location: 320 East Silver Street, Lebanon, OH, USA
Phone: 513-695-1311
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WarrenCounty4HProgram