4-H Poultry Judging

Poultry judging trains people in decision making skills related to the evaluation of chicken and egg production. This judging team is open to 4th thru 12th grade 4-H members.

Team members learn:

How to evaluate and define the differences in live chickens
How to evaluate and grade the quality of eggs
How to evaluate and grade poultry carcasses
How to give oral reasons

Members will judge two classes of live birds, one class of poultry carcasses, one class of eggs to be candled determining market class, one class of broken out eggs determining market class, one class of eggs to determine exterior egg quality and members will have a class to identify carcass parts.

Please contact Dan Owen at (931) 433-1582 if you are interested in learning more about 4-H poultry judging.