Wyoming 4-H State Horse Camp
4-H Horse Camp is open to all Wyoming 4-H Club Members, Parents, 4-H Leaders, and Wyoming Extension Personnel. The educational programs presented at Horse Camp are designed to provide practical, hands-on training. The major emphasis of the camp is to improve safe riding and handling skills.
Horse Camp will be held in 2022, date and location to be determined. Registration is limited to 70 participants and is filled on a first-come, first-served basis.
Special Notes:
- In an effort to promote a safer, more educational environment for our youth, riding will be limited to youth and instructors only.
- Livestock Travel Brochure (Taking Horses Across County Lines)
Camp Objectives
All of the activities and presentations are designed to help accomplish the following:
- For the participants to enjoy themselves and have fun
- For the participants to learn and understand horse safety
- For the participants to enhance their horsemanship abilities
- To improve basic horse knowledge through skill-a-thons
- To improve the skills of 4-H Members in areas such as saddling, bridling, basic seat, balance, control turn on haunches, forehand, collection, and lateral flexion.
Registration TBA
Wyoming 4-H Livestock Judging Information
The 4-H livestock judging program helps youth build skills around self-confidence, decision making, analytical thinking, communication and team work. Youth learn to evaluate beef, sheep, swine and goats based on a set of visual appraisal points, which they learn through the teaching of volunteer leaders. Livestock judging includes a competition factor that provides the ultimate hands on approach to applying what the youth has learned in the classroom to a judging competition. They apply all of the life skills they have learned in one setting, making a decision and defending it through oral reasoning or question recall. The participants’ goals are to align their decisions of evaluating four animals as close to the officials’ placing as possible.
4-H Livestock Skill-a-Thon Information
The Livestock Skill-a-thon provides youth an opportunity to blend the knowledge they learn in the classroom with the hands-on skills they are learning from the care and exhibition of their animals, into one activity. Youth gain a comprehensive knowedge about animal science topics such as breeds of livestock, external parts, wholesale cuts, equipment identification, feed identification, quality assurance and evaluation. For senior members it includes additional stations on meat science, wool evaluations and reproduction. This fun competition is completed as a team of youth that work together relaying their information they have learned, along with completing an application scenario in a group think process.
Showcase Showdown
June 21-23, 2022
Laramie, WY
To register, click here: http://bit.ly/showcaseshowdown2021
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| Wyoming 4-H State Leadership Team The State 4-H Leadership Team is a seven-person team that represents Wyoming 4-H at all statewide events and activities. These functions include, state leadership team retreat, Showcase Showdown, Legislative Day, and the Wyoming State Fair. Team members are also involved in providing county or multi-county leadership workshops, assisting at all state 4-H contests and events, and representing 4-H at organizational meetings. Wyoming 4-H State Shoot ~July 7-10, 2022 ~ Douglas, Wyoming The Wyoming 4-H State Shoot is host to over 600 youth who showcase their shooting skills in seven different disciplines. The event takes place in Douglas, Wyoming. Check here in Spring of 2022 for an update.  |