Carroll County
4-H Youth Making a Difference
Carroll County 4-H Members Shine
2007 Senior 4-H Champion
Shannon is a member of North Polo Pioneers 4-H Club in
Berryville. Her main project is raising goats. Her other interests
include horses, music, dogs and cats. She joined 4-H to be with her
friends and to find out more about it.
A goal of Shannon is to, by age 18, have 41 full-blood Boer does
and to be making enough money to put her through college. She
started out with 3 pigmy goats, and the family now has 142 goats,
many of which are full-blood Boers.
Shannon and her mom attended the National Meat Goat Association’s
Judging School in San Antonio, Texas for three days learning what
good conformation of a meat goat is supposed to look like.
They implemented rotational grazing for their herd and have saved
time and money as a result. Shannon has tried and succeeded in
learning proper care and maintenance and is now the primary
caretaker of the family’s goat herd.
She has supervised boys from the nearby Boy’s Ranch hired to do
farm chores. She writes down all feeding chores, animal locations,
and how to do about everything. In order to assure the herd is
disease-free, Shannon pulls blood and has done so over 300 times.
Her mom says she can pull blood as good as the vet can.
2007 Junior 4-H Champion
Adam is an active member of the Dry Fork/Metalton 4-H Club where
he serves as Vice-President. Adam enjoys helping the younger members
of his 4-H club with their fair projects. He will be in eighth grade
in the fall of 2007. He plays basketball on his school’s team, is
active in his church’s youth group and maintains a 4.0 grade level.
Adam has been raising and showing animals at the county level for
9 years. He has competed in numerous jackpots and has competed at
district and state levels. This year, he is showing a Hereford
heifer and a Hereford bull, both raised on his family’s farm in
south Carroll County. His bull has won several Breed Champion
Awards.
Adam enjoys hunting, particularly deer, turkey and squirrels. He
participates in the Carroll County 4-H Shooting Sports Club. He will
compete at the state level for the second time in June.
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4-H Community Clubs |
Berryville
Carrollton |
Dry Fork/Metalton
North Polo Pioneers |
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County-Wide Special Interest Groups |
Beef
Goat
Poultry Chain |
Sheep
Shooting Sports
Swine |
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