March 2017 Newsletter

Bent County 4- H

Bent County 4-H

What to Look For: Volume 6, Issue 3, March, 2017

State 4-H News

www.colorado4h.org

Project Resources

StateFairExhibitReq.pdf.

We’re on Facebook, look for Bent County Extension updates.

County News

1. MQA

2. March 7 Council Meeting

3. Shooting Sports Information

4. 4-H Schedule

5. Market Beef Tagging Info

6. Livestock Chart

Opportunities and Deadlines Mar 7 4-H Council, 7 p.m., Mc Clave Mar 17 Bent County MQA Mar 17-19 District Retreat & Officer Election April 1 4-H Scholorship Deadlines April 14 4-H Council/Easter Community Service April 14 Add/Drop Deadline April 21 4-H Horse Project Workshop

Meat Quality Assurance (MQA) Meat Quality Assurance is a hands-on training for live-stock and horse project members that focuses on proper animal handling, nutrition, health and more. To show at the Bent County Fair, breeding and market exhibitors are required to attend MQA training the first two years they show livestock and then again at the beginning of their Intermediate (age 11) and Senior (age 14) years. MQA training will be Friday, March 18 at McClave School Cafe-teria from 9:30-11:30 am. If you cannot attend this date you may participate in other Colorado MQA sessions. Complete all paperwork at MQA training to document your attendance. If you think you are required to attend, but are not on the list, please call the Extension Office so we can con-firm whether you need to attend.

Pork Quality Assurance State and national swine exhibitors must be certified in Pork Quality Assurance. Our MQA is designed to com-ply with PQA standards, with a few differences. If you want to complete PQA certification at the Bent MQA, please contact our office by March 14.

Members who must attend MQA in 2017:

Anointed Brown

Avery Hemphill

Brett Jones

Colby Ebright

Corbin Jagers

Cordell Reisch

Cutter Nichols

Denton Willbanks

Garret VanDyke

George Maes

Grady Ebright

Hailey Ebright

Hailey Ebright

Hannah Bender

Hope Mitchell

Jimmi Boyd

Joel Reyher

Jorji Ratzlaff

Joseph Hawkins

Justin Reyher

Kasen Malone

Kree Wallace

McKayla Kiniston

McKenzie Kiniston

Morgan (Tuff) Kelley

Pace Wallace

Riggin Van Campen

Roree Willbanks

Ryan Bronniman

Sierra Noecker

Sierra Reisch

Tayton Coulter

Trinity Brown

Weston Morgan

Windsor Leighty

Bent County March 2017

4H Council Bent 4-H Council will meet March 7 at McClave Church. Council representatives from each club should be at this meeting. Remember you must attend at least one council designated activity in order to be eligible to show at the Bent County Fair. A list of 4-H dates is in this newsletter; activities that fulfill this requirement have an asterisk.

Shooting Sports Notes The 4-H Shooting Sports programs in Bent, Crowley, Kio-wa, Otero and Prowers Counties have agreed that mem-bers may attend practices in each of these counties. Mem-bers must have two safety meetings and a hunter safety card in order to practice in Bent, Crowley, Kiowa, Otero or Prowers Counties, participate in the Bent County Shoot or go to the State 4-H Shoot. You may attend safety meet-ings in any of these counties to fulfill this requirement. Shooting Sports members will receive an email with safety meeting dates. The Colorado 4-H Shooting Sports Program requires the use of trained and certified 4-H instructors at the county level to operate a live-fire range or to conduct any class in which firearms or archery equipment are handled. Bent County Certified leaders are Ben and Cin-dy Miller. To shoot at the Trap Club, you must first pay trap club fees. The trap club requires all fees be paid through Ben and/or Cindy Miller. All members can, of course, practice on their own.

Hunter’s Safety Class

Colorado Parks and Wildlife is sponsoring a Hunter’s Safe-ty Class at the Las Animas Fire Station March 21, 23 and 24 at 6 pm and March 25 at 8 am. Register at: https://register-ed.com/programs/colorado/98-colorado-hunter-education-course?. There is also a class in Rocky Ford the following week.

Scales for Sale Bent County Fair is selling their hog and sheep crate WW Paul mechanical scales. The scales will be available for viewing at small animal tagging on May 4. Sealed bids are accepted at the Extension Office until close of business May 8. Thanks to McClave FFA for making them look so great!

Club Meeting Dates March 8 Clever Clovers, 7 pm, Extension Office March 13 Western Prairie, 6 pm, Extension Office April 2 Blue Ribbon Winners, 3 pm, McClave Church

Non-terminal Colorado State Fair Swine Show Colorado State Fair has announced that the 2017 Market Hog show will be a non-terminal show.

Thank You! Thanks to all who helped with 4-H promotions in Las Ani-mas: Tayton and Tyler Coulter, Alicia and Sam Deather-age, Jerome Ethridge, Mary Lou, Ceeley and Cylen Turner, Linda Smith, Kree and Pace Wallace. Your work paid off; we are up to 107 Bent County 4-H members!

2017 Bent County Fair

Beef Tag-In February 25 Small Animal Tag-In May 4, Hog Nominations due May 8

Fair Weights

Suggested Tag-In Weights Days on Feed Minimum Floor Plan paid to

Beef 600-800 150 Steer: 1000#

Heifer: 950# 1400

Lamb 60-85 82 100 160

Southdown Lamb 50-75 82 85 160

Swine No Beginning Weights 225 290

Goat 25-60 82 55 110

All Weights in Pounds

Colorado State University, U.S. Department of Agriculture and Southeast Area (Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, Kiowa, Otero and Prowers Counties) cooperating. Extension programs are available to all without discrimination.

March 1 Enrollment Deadline to show at the Bent County Fair March 7* 4-H Council, 7 p.m., McClave Methodist Church March 16 MQA, Cheyenne County March 17 MQA, Bent County March 17-19* District Retreat: Ages 13-18, Divide March 19* District VI Spring Meeting at District Retreat March 20 MQA, Baca County March 21 MQA, Prowers County March 22 MQA, Otero/Crowley Counties March 23 MQA, Kiowa County April 1 4-H Scholarship Applications due April 14 4-H Council, Easter Bunny Community Service, 12 noon, Las Animas April 14 Project Add/Drop Deadline April 21 Horse Project Workshop, 9 am, Bent County Fairgrounds Preregistration required. May 2* 4-H Council, 7 p.m., Mc Clave Methodist Church May 4 Sheep, Goat Tagging/Weigh-In, Fairgrounds May 8 Hog nominations due to Office June 6* 4-H Council Meeting, 7 p.m., Extension Office, Las Animas June 14-15* Caballeros & Clovers Camp June 15* Cake Decorating & Creative Cooks Contests, Rocky Ford, 6 p.m. June 20-23* State 4-H Conference, CSU, Fort Collins June 25-July 2* Citizenship Washington Focus, Washington DC July 13* Performing Arts & Demonstration Contests, Kiowa County, 6 p.m. July 20* 4-H Council Meeting, Las Animas July 20* Bent County Fair Clean-up July 22-29 Bent County Fair August 14 Colorado State Fair Exhibits Due in Office August 25-Sept 4 Colorado State Fair September 5 Council Meeting— Officer Elections, 7 p.m., Extension Office, Las Animas October TBD* Council Meeting October 2-8 National 4-H Week October TBD* Achievement Program, McClave November 3-5 Dare to be You 4-H Camp *Designated Council Activities to meet member in good standing requirement for fair participation.

Council Reimbursement Policy When 4-H Council sponsors all or part of the cost of an activity, the participant needs to pay the entire fee with registration. After attending the event, an oral or written report must be given to council. Council will then reimburse the budgeted amount as specified in council policies. Due to the high cost, an exception is given for the CWF delegate.

Bent County March 2017

Bent County March 2017

Wow! We tagged in 28 Market Beef for the Bent County Fair. Please check the information below for accuracy; let us know by April 1 if any corrections are needed.

2017 Bent County Market Beef Tagging & Weigh-in

Exhibitor Name: Steer/ Heifer Description:

Born & Raised

State Fair Tag #

Beg. Weight

Hannah Taylor S black 65 754

Hannah Taylor S black 66 828

Holly Morgan S black x 67 1071

Ken Cox S black with white feet x 68 920

Weston Morgan S black x 69 839

Tuff Kelley S red 70 802

Jake Trujillo S blue roan x 71 782

Erin Wright H red/white x 72 786

Erin Wright S black x 73 743

Erin Wright S black x 74 919

Maggie Chase S black x 75 781

Maggie Chase S black x 76 833

Sara Reyher S black x 77 616

Justin Reyher S black x 78 856

Joel Reyher S black x 79 902

Reyher Family S black x 80 916

Jake Davis S black x 81 625

Jake Davis S black x 82 596

Denton Willbanks S yellow x 83 926

Denton Willbanks S black x 84 1118

Brander Nichols S black/white x 85 798

Roper Nichols S black/white x 86 680

Dacey Corsentino S black x 87 763

Cutter Nichols S black x 88 792

Jorji Ratzlaff S black x 89 976

Mitch Garcia S black/ white face x x 90 662

Mitch Garcia S red/white x x 91 567

Mitch Garcia S black/white face x x 92 470

Southeast Area

4-H Newsletter

Colorado State University, U.S. Department of Agriculture and Colorado counties cooperating. Extension programs are available to all without discrimination. The information given herein is

supplied with the understanding that no discrimination is intended and no endorsement by Colorado State University is implied.

Southeast Area Office 411 North 10th Street

Rocky Ford, CO 81067 719-254-7608

Baca County 700 Colorado Street Springfield, CO 81073 719-523-6971 coopext_baca@mail.colostate.edu

Cheyenne County Box 395 Cheyenne Wells, CO 80810 719-767-5716 coopext_cheyenne@mail.colostate.edu

Kiowa County Box 97 Eads, CO 81036 719-438-5321 coopext_kiowa@mail.colostate.edu

Prowers County 1001 South Main Lamar, CO 81052 719-336-7734 coopext_prowers@mail.colostate.edu

Bent County 1499 Ambassador Thompson Las Animas, CO 81054 719-456-0764 coopext_bent@mail.colostate.edu

Crowley County 613 Main Street Courthouse Annex Ordway, CO 81063 719-267-5243 coopext_crowley@mail.colostate.edu

Otero County Box 190 Rocky Ford, CO 81067 719-254-7608 coopext_ otero@mail.colostate.edu

Important 4-H Dates

March

March 1st - Enrollment Deadline for Baca, Bent, Crowley, Kiowa, Otero & Prowers

March 16th - MQA - Cheyenne County

March 17th - MQA - Bent County

March 17th-19th - South Central District Retreat

March 20th - MQA - Baca County

March 21st - MQA - Prowers County

March 22nd - MQA - Otero/Crowley County

March 23rd - MQA - Kiowa County

March 24th-26th - Shooting Sports Leader Training - Pueblo

March 28th - Area Agents Gone for AgFest

April

April 1st - 4-H Scholarship Deadlines

April 2nd-7th - 4-H Agents Gone to Meeting

April 14th - Add/Drop Deadline for SEA

April 24th-28th - Area Agents Gone for AgFest

Conference & Camp Scholarships The District VI 4-H Senate has voted to provide scholarships for district 4-H members to attend state, regional, and district events. For Dare to Be You and Caballeros & Clovers 4-H Camps one scholarship will be offered for each county. For LDC, Youth Fest, District Retreat and State Conference two scholarship maximum will be offered for the whole district. A deposit for the registration amount will be held, but will only be deposited if the scholarship winner does not attend. Due dates for scholarships will be adver-tised in the newsletter. There is an application that must be completed. You can get the application from your local extension office.

Daniel Kasza Memorial Scholarship All District VI (Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, Kiowa, Otero, and Prowers Counties) graduating seniors are encouraged to apply for the Daniel Kasza Memorial 4-H Scholarship. One $750 scholarship will be awarded to an eligible applicant. Criteria and applications are now available from SE Area Extension Offices and on the area website, and are due April 1. Contact Kaye, kmkasza@yahoo.com or 719.829.4208, for more information.

Colorado 4-H Foundation Scholarships

The Colorado 4-H Foundation has a scholarship application program that awards over 20 scholarships to Colorado 4-H members. These scholarships all require 4-H membership, but focus on different fields of study and interest. The scholarship application can be found on the 4-H Foundation website at http://co4hfoundation.extension.colostate.edu/benefits/colorado-4-h-foundation-scholarships/. The deadline to submit application is April 1st.

Add/Drop Deadline

Members wishing to either add or drop a project have until April 14th to do so. All additions and drops must be done in writ-ing, on the appropriate form, and signed by both the member and their parent/legal guardian. Add/drop forms are availa-ble at the Extension Office. Remember, you must be enrolled in at least one project to maintain your 4-H membership, and to par-ticipate in 4-H activities.

New Southeast Area Website The Southeast Area Extension has a new website. Check out http://sea.extension.colostate.edu/ for Southeast Area related information.

4H Online – Email Blasts

From time to time the State office will be sending emails directly to the 4-H members. It is the easiest and most effective way to communicate important State events and requirements. We know that not everyone particularly enjoys the extra emails and there have been requests to be unsubscribed. It is important to know that if you do that, you would not receive any re-enrollment emails or information the County office sends directly to you. Please do not “unsubscribe.”

State Fair Exhibit Requirements

The 2017 State Fair Exhibit Requirements have been updated. You can find them at http://www.colorado4h.org/project_resources/StateFairExhibitReq.pdf. Please be sure to refer to the exhibit requirements when you are planning on your project, as this is what it will be judged on at both county and state fair.

Caballeros & Clovers 4-H Camp

Do YOU have what it takes? Hone your survival skills at the 2017 Caballeros & Clovers Camp. Who: 4-H members ages 8-12 by December 31st, 2016 When: June 14th-15th, 2017 (Starting at 10:00 am on the 14th and ending at 2:00 pm on the 15th) Where: Colorado State Fairgrounds, Pueblo Cost: $25 (Includes meals, workshop materials, and a t-shirt) What to Bring: Sleeping bag and pillow, comfortable clothes and shoes, swimming suit, a water bottle, and snacks to share ( a

more specific list will be sent out following registration) This year’s camp will feature a number of exciting activities including:

Food Preservation Team Building Campfire Cooking (S’mores!) Mapping First Aid And so much more!

Registration opens April 1st in 4HOnline, closes on May 19th and is only open to the first 100 youth. For more information, contact your local CSU Extension Office. Youth wishing to apply to be a counselor should also contact their local Extension Office.

Colorado State Fair Livestock Show Updates New for 2017, the market swine show will no longer be terminal. In other words, those swine that do NOT qualify for the junior livestock sale will be allowed to go home with the exhibitor. Retinal scanning will still be required for all market beef, market sheep, and market goats to be nominated for the show. Market swine will still turn in ear notches. There is a $5 fee per head for retinal scanning. You will be responsible for making arrangements with your extension agent to get your animals retinal scanned.

Meat Quality Assurance All 4-H members in breeding and market beef, sheep, swine, goats, poultry, rabbits, dairy animal and horse projects must complete Meat Quality Assurance training the first two years they show livestock, and then again when they change age divisions. You may attend any MQA in the area; be sure to sign in and complete the quiz so your county will know you attended. The hands-on learning stations will be used again with changes in the stations. This is a come and learn-by-doing training that will take approximately an hour to complete. Parents and leaders are strongly encouraged to attend. Plan to attend one of these sessions:

March 16th - Cheyenne County - 4 to 6 p.m. - Cheyenne County Fairgrounds Community Building

March 17th - Bent County - 9:30-11:30 a.m. - McClave School Cafeteria

March 20th - Baca County - 6-8:30 p.m. - Baca County Fairgrounds Minnick Building

March 21st - Prowers County - 5-7 p.m. - Granada Gymnasium

March 22nd - Otero/Crowley County - 5-7 p.m. - Ark Valley Fairgrounds

March 23rd - Kiowa County - 5-7 p.m. - Kiowa County Fairgrounds Community Building

Meat Judging

Have you ever wondered where on an animal the steaks you eat at home come from? How about how to cook that steak or how to choose the best steak for your dinner? You're in luck! Baca County 4-H is starting a Meat Judging Program in conjunction with Southeast Area Extension. Meat Judging will be a great opportunity to learn and compete as a team at local and regional events. Fol-low this link to watch a short video about Meat Judging and Baca County’s new program as well as read the program overview and expectations http://baca.extension.colostate.edu/4-h/4-h-meat-judging-team/. Meat Judging is available for all ages 8-18! If you are interested in participating and joining the team, contact Mallory Sikes in the Baca County Extension Office, (719)523-6971 or Mallo-ry.sikes@colostate.edu. A list of scheduled practices are listed below as well as the State Contest. We also plan to practice in April and travel to at least one out of state contest before May. We would love you have you join us and hope to hear from you soon! Do not hesitate to contact Mallory with any questions you may have.

Friday – March 10th, 3:00 -5:00 p.m. Baca County Extension Office

Friday – March 24th, 3:00 -5:00 p.m. Baca County Extension Office

Saturday – May 6th, State 4-H Contest, Fort Collins, Colorado

Horse Judging

A horse judging team has started in Otero County, and is open to all Southeast Area Counties. Regular practices will start in March, and run the 1st and 3rd Wednesday’s at 6:30 p.m. For more information contact Marlena Griesse in the Otero County Extension Office, 719-254-7608 or Marlena.Griesse@colostate.edu.

Livestock Judging Field Day

A livestock judging field day is scheduled for Saturday, March 18th at the Morgan County Fairgrounds in Brush. The field day in-cludes evaluating beef, sheep, swine, and goats. The field day is $10 per participant (includes lunch). Registration starts at 8:30 a.m. and the program starts at 9 a.m. For more information contact Marlin Eisenach at 970-542-3543.

Shooting Sports Leader Training

Several leader certification workshops have been scheduled around the state in the next few months. If you are interested in becom-ing certified in one of the SS disciplines, contact your local extension office for information. Registration will need to be accom-plished through your local extension office or the 4-H online system. Go to the SS web-site: www.co4hshooting.org for more infor-mation.

March 24th-26th - Pueblo County

March 31st-April 2nd - Mesa County

April 7th-9th - Larimer County

April 28th-30th - Eagle County

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