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4-H Youth Development Home » Calendar & Events

Livestock Project Events

Area Animal Science Days - Series of four day-long events held around the state in June where youth in the beef, dairy, horse, sheep and swine projects increase their decision making skills and knowledge of animals through judging and grading experiences. Events include evaluation of dairy cattle, horses and meat animals; dairy showmanship contests; hippology (the study of horses); and oral reasons workshops. In addition, each site offers a variety of workshops for small animal projects, which may include rabbits, poultry, dogs, cats or llamas.

State 4-H Livestock Evaluation Contest - Competition of top teams selected at Area Animal Science Days. Champion teams from this event will represent Wisconsin at National Evaluation Contests. Junior Competition also.

State 4-H Meats Contest Annually held the third weekend in February on the UW-Madison Campus at the Muscle Biology Lab. Includes meat cut ID, ranking of carcasses and meat grading.

Livestock Quiz Bowl - Livestock Bowl is a quiz competition where all the questions are about beef, sheep, swine, and meat goat topics and students use a buzzer in order to answer the questions.  Teams compete in a double elimination format by giving oral answers to questions posed by a moderator.  Each match has both an individual and toss-up question round.  The teams are divided into three age divisions
Registration and rules for Quiz Bowl

Animal Welfare Contest- This contest allows 4-H and FFA members (teams of 3 or 4 members or compete individually) to develop the skills to critically examine a situation to gather unbiased information, and use that information to make a subjective but educated assessment of welfare quality in a fun and competitive atmosphere.  The youth competition is based on materials that members have access to through enrollment in the various livestock projects.  The youth will evaluate scenarios individually and also in a team category.  Teams will be asked to answer a set of questions regarding the scenarios.
Registration and rules for Animal Welfare Contest

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