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Fayette County 4-H News

WHAT’S INSIDE:

Pg 2 Fair Info & Mandatory Swine Meeting

Pg 3 Livestock ID Help Sheet

Pg 4 Omelet Brunch Work Schedule & Other Events

Pg 5 Save the Dates & Other Opportunities

Pg 6 Leader Info

Pg 7 Clover Kids

Pg 8 Club Meetings & Calendar of Events

March 2020

The 18th annual 4-H Omelet Brunch will be held on Sun-day, March 15 with serving from 9 am to 1 pm at the Dance Pavilion located at the Fayette County Fair-grounds.

Tickets may be purchased from a 4-H member or at the door for $8. The menu will include a made-to-order ome-let, all you can eat pancakes, applesauce, coffee and milk. A silent auction will also take place during the brunch with the winners announced at 1 pm.

Supporting the omelet brunch is very important and all monies raised benefit each member’s program develop-ment fee, fund educational workshops and the Fayette County 4-H program.

Reminder to clubs: Auction items may be brought to the office before noon on Friday, March 13, to the fair-grounds between 9 and noon on Saturday, March 14 or between 8 and 8:30 am on Sunday, March 15.

Michele Kelly, CYC

2020 Fair Theme Changed

“Strive for Gold”

I’m sorry for the change but according to Haley Jones,

Leadership & Civic Engagement Specialist with Iowa 4-H

Youth Development. “We had to make this slight change

from the original “Go For the Gold” due to the Official

Olympic Committee informing us that we could not use

that theme.

While frustrating and untimely, we do what we do best in

Extension, and we come up with a Plan B and remain

flexible. Our State Council worked hard and fast to come

up with a new theme and logo ideas that would not stray

too far from their original ideas.”

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Animal ID Limits

Below are numbers from the State 4-H Office about the number of animals you may ID in 4-H Online. Remem-ber, these are the number of animals you may identify, not the number of animals you may show at the Fayette County Fair. Please refer to the Fayette County Fairbook for the number you may show at the fair.

Breeding Beef 10 Market Beef 10

Dairy Cattle 20 Meat Goats 20

Dairy Goat 20 Sheep (weighed) 30

Dog 4 Breeding Sheep 15

Horse 5 Swine 40

2020 Livestock County Fair Requirements

There are six important things to remember if you are planning to exhibit animals at the 2020 Fayette County Fair.

1. Weigh-in—Market Beef in December, Swine on March 28, Sheep & Meat Goats on May 2.

2. Livestock identification is due in 4-H Online by May 15 for animals that were not required to be weighed. Paper copies must be turned in to the Extension Of-fice by noon on May 12.

3. YQCA (Youth Quality Care of Animals) certification is required for all 4-H and FFA members who intend to exhibit animals that could enter the food supply.

4. Fair entry is due on or before June 15 for all animals, including Clover Kids.

5. A copy of registration papers must be turned in by June 15 for all animals showing in registered classes.

6. Share-a-Project forms are due by May 15 for individ-uals showing livestock they do not own.

Fayette County Broiler Project

Plans are underway for the 13th annual Broiler Project open to Fayette County 4-H and FFA members and Clover Kids.

Registration forms for the broiler project can be found on the Fayette County 4-H website under County Fair Forms or from club leaders. Enrollment deadline is April 15. Youth participating in the broiler project need to obtain their own sponsors. Sponsorship this year is $30 for 25 chicks and first bag of feed.

Weigh-in & Fair Information Swine Weigh-in — Saturday, March 28, 8-10 am, Fayette County Fairgrounds, West Union Sheep & Meat Goat Weigh-in — May 2, 8-10 am, Fayette County Fairgrounds, West Union

County Fair Dates — July 21-25, 2020

County Fair Theme — “Strive for Gold”

Iowa State Fair Dates — August 13-23, 2020

Mandatory Swine Meeting

A meeting for all swine exhibitors (both

4-H & FFA) will be held Thursday,

March 5, beginning at 7 pm in the

meeting room at the Extension Office.

Attendance of the exhibitor and one

parent/guardian is required as we address fair changes,

discuss the use of ractopamine and more.

4-H Meeting Attendance

We are halfway through the 4-H year. Have you, the

4-H member attended meetings faithfully or are you lack-

ing a few? Just a reminder that attending meetings

throughout the year is important in order to be able to

show at the county fair. If you are wondering where you

stand with attendance, ask your club leader.

Livestock ID’s Due May 15

Livestock identification will be done though 4-H Online. https://iowa.4honline.com for breeding beef, horses, dairy, dairy goats, dogs, bucket/bottle calves and breed-ing sheep.

Identification is due in the system by 11:59 pm, Friday, May 15. For help entering non-weighed species, please check out the insert page on ID’ing livestock found else-where in the newsletter.

Those turning in paper copies, must have ID forms to the Extension Office by noon on Tuesday, May 12. If you have questions, please ask in advance.

FFA members ID forms will be sent to advisors. Youth are encouraged to obtain copies and return prior to the May 12 noon deadline.

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SAVE ENTERING LIVESTOCK ID’S ONLINE IS EASY! HERE’S HOW:

Log in to 4-H Online Log at https://iowa.4honline.com Enter family email address and password. This will take you to

the member list which includes all of your family members enrolled in 4-H: members and leaders.

Click “Edit” to the right of the member listed. You will then be sent to that member’s Personal Information Screen.

On this screen, click on the box that says Animals/Livestock and go to your animal ID screen.

If you identified any dairy cattle, dairy

goats, horses, breeding meat goats or dogs

last year, those animals will be listed at the

bottom of the animal list screen and may be

reactivated.

Photos

Horse photos are required to be uploaded

for ID purposes. You may also upload pho-

tos of your dairy cattle and dogs.

You will then see a drop down box any previously entered animals listed in a manner similar to the picture. Select the animal

you want to enter and click the add button (hidden in photo by drop down).

Note: Youth will not be able to enter market weigh-in

animals (beef, sheep, meat goats, swine). This infor-

mation will be entered by county staff. All market ani-

mals being shown at the Iowa State Fair will need to be

verified after this has been completed. Please refer to

the Livestock Verification Help Sheet for more infor-

mation on this process.

This will take you to the corresponding entry screen for your animal. Note that some selections will activate extra entry

fields. (Example: selecting Registered will in some cases show a Breed drop down box. Enter the information requested and

click the save button. All animal ID’s must be submitted no later than May 15, 11:59 p.m.

Questions??? Contact the Fayette County Extension Office 563-425-3331 or email Judy at jmohlis@iastate.edu or

visit the website at http://www.extension.iastate.edu/4h/page/4honline-information-families-and-leaders

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Save the Date: Poultry Workshop

A poultry workshop will be held Tuesday, April 14 at the fairgrounds from 5:30-7 pm. More infor-mation will be sent to poultry exhibitors.

Pre-registration is required as there will be door prizes for the youth attending. Parents are also encouraged to at-tend. Minimum 10 participants (youth and adults) or workshop will be cancelled. An expert from Cargill Animal Nutrition will be hosting this educational seminar to help poultry project members (and their families) truly understand the nutritional needs of their birds, and what to look for/prioritize when select-ing a diet for show birds. We will also discuss best prac-tices on how to prepare for show day and have a suc-cessful fair.

4-H Camps Coming

in Summer 2020

4-H members…Come join us for tons of fun, adventures galore, and lifelong friendships

from northeast Iowa. Summer 4-H Camps will be held at Pine Bluff 4-H Camp located near Decorah. Junior 4-H members (grades 4

th -6

th) will have two camps to choose

from with the dates being:

June 18-19 or July 28-29

Register for camp on the Fayette County 4-H website at https://www.extension.iastate.edu/fayette/4h with signup deadline being April 15. Space is limited.

Wanted: 4-H Camp Counselors

Attention High School 4-H Members!

Do you like the outdoors?

Are you up for adventures with junior 4-H members?

Then being a 4-H camp counselor may be for you. We are looking for 9th-12th grade 4-H youth counselors to provide leadership in partnership with 4-H staff at the Regional Pine Bluff 4-H Camps. Both junior camps are 2 days and one night. Junior camps will be June 18-19 or July 28-29. Sign up for one camp or both. Contact your County Youth Coordinator for more information. Applica-tions will be available on the Fayette County 4-H website at https://www.extension.iastate.edu/fayette/4h. Dead-line to apply is April 15.

Omelet Brunch Work Schedule

Saturday, March 14 Set-up 9-11 am — County 4-H Council Sewing Club Independent Members Sunday, March 15 9-10 am — Bethel Generators Harlan NRG 10-11 am — Fremont Friends Oelwein Cool Clovers 11 am-Noon — Eden Outer Limits Growing Greener Through 4-H Windsor Sparkplugs Noon-1 pm — Fayette Firecrackers Pleasant Valley Sharpshooters Scott Hot Shots 1-2 pm (Clean-up) — Banks Go Getters Eldorado Eagles Harlan-Fremont

4-H Archery Event

An archery event open to all 4-H members 4

th grade and older will be held at the in-

door range located in the Stephens Build-ing at the Fairgrounds on Saturday, March 7 from 9-11 am.

Pre-registration is required by calling the

Extension Office 563-425-3331 by Thurs-

day, March 5. Parents are encouraged to attend and

stay with their child. Release forms must be signed by

the 4-H Participant and a parent/guardian. Due to liabil-

ity concerns this archery shoot is only open to Fayette

County 4-H members and they MUST be signed up by

4:30 pm March 5 to attend.

Volunteers Needed

Volunteers are needed Satur-

day, April 12 to assist with the

Fayette County Food Bank

from 8:30 am-noon, at Crossfire

Church, West Union.

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Save the Dates: State Youth 4-H Conference and Animal Science

Round-Up

Tuesday, June 30-Thursday, July 2, ISU Campus, Ames

Communication, Foods Fair and Clothing Event

Judging Day

Tuesday, July 7, 9 am, United Methodist Church, Fayette.

State Conference Scholarship

Interested in attending State 4-H Conference?

Scholarships are available through Iowa 4-H Foundation with application forms found at htttp://www.extension.iastate.edu/4h/iowa4hyouthconference at the bottom of the right hand column.

Youth from Fayette County must have completed schol-arship forms filled out, signed and returned to the Exten-sion Office by June 1.

Fair T-shirt Design Contest

The Fayette County t-shirt design contest is open to all county 4-H and FFA members. The shirts will be green with white lettering this year. The design must have the year 2020 and the 4-H & FFA words or symbols and fit on an 8 1/2 by 11 sheet of paper.

Please write your name on the back of your entry and turn it into the Extension Office by May 1. Contest winner will receive the choice of a free t-shirt or $5.

“Strive for Gold” is the theme for the 2020 Fayette County Fair.

Traveling or Transporting 4-H Members

If you are traveling with 4-H clubs or transporting mem-

bers, other than your own family members, please take

note. Those serving as drivers must be properly screened

by contacting the Extension Office for the proper paper-

work.

Once filled out all paperwork must be submitted back to

the Extension Office a minimum of 7 business days, prior

to event date to allow for screening to be completed.

Save the Date: Equine Workshop An Equine Workshop will be held Tuesday, June 2 from 5:30-7 pm at the fairgrounds. More information will be sent to horse exhibitors as the date gets closer. Pre-registration will be required as there will be door prizes for youth attend-ing. Parents are also encouraged to attend. Minimum of 10 partici-

pants (youth and adults) or workshop will be cancelled.

An expert from Cargill Animal Nutrition will be hosting an educational, interactive seminar to help equine project members (and their families) learn how to decide on a diet that is best suited for their individual horses’ needs. Hands on lessons on Body Condition Scoring (BCS) and Topline Evaluation Scoring (TES) will be given. We will also discuss the importance of quality forage and how to understand good vs bad, and how to decide on a diet based off of your forage and what it may or may not pro-vide.

2020 4-H Summer Adventure Trip is June 11-12

Join us for 2 days and 1 night for the 2020 4-H Interme-

diate Summer Adventure

Trip. Youth will be staying

overnight at a motel in Dav-

enport. The adventure starts

at the Herbert Hoover Presi-

dential Library in West

Branch. Then travels to the Quad Cities to get behind

the wheel of innovation at the John Deere Pavilion, have

some fun at Michael's Fun World amusement park, dis-

cover new things at the science museum and much

more! This fun and educational experience is open to all

4-H members currently in 6th, 7th and 8th grades. The

trip will be June 11 & 12. Registration deadline is April

15. Registration forms are available on the county web-

site or by contacting the Extension Office.

4-H Animal Science Roundup Applications

The online application form is up on the Animal Science Roundup page, https://www.extension.iastate.edu/4h/animalscienceroundup. Animal Science Roundup is held as part of State 4-H Conference, June 30 – July 2. Spe-cies included for 2020: Beef, Dairy Cattle, Horse, Poul-try, Sheep, Swine, Goat (Meat and Dairy). Online appli-cation deadline is Wednesday, April 15.

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Pre-Meeting Activity

Pencil Drop

Activity from Chris Cavert, FUNdoing Fridays, a weekly

email I receive that includes great team building activities.

Supplies:

• Pencil

• String

• Empty Water bottle

Take a pencil and attach two pieces of string around the eraser part of it.

Divide your group into two teams and tie one piece of the string around the waist of one of the team members and the other string around the waist of the other member.

Then find a water bottle and have both teams try to lower the pencil inside the bottle without using their hands. Teamwork and collaboration are the two main themes of this team building activity.

Once completed remove the string from each person’s waist and move to the next pair of youth until all have completed the task.

Program Fee Payment

Reminder to club leaders and treasurer’s that program fee payment is due to the Extension Office. Statement with amount due and youth who completed the enroll-ment process by the deadline was sent to the leaders in mid-December. Leaders were asked to discuss pay-ment options with club members and submit approved form or money to the Extension Office by January 31, 2020.

Club Programs

A club program is needed from Oelwein Cool Clovers. Please turn in a copy asap. Club members are not properly covered by insurance without meeting dates/events on file at the Extension Office. Please get these turned in asap.

Changing or Cancelling Club Meetings

If a club meeting or event is added, cancelled or

changed from what was submitted in the club program,

back in December 2019, please contact Michele either in

a text message OR email. This includes ALL events in-

cluding cancelling meetings due to weather, changing a

club meeting location or as simple as changing a meet-

ing time. If an event is held but not listed in the program

book and something happens the club members and

volunteers involved are not covered by insurance. This

is VERY IMPORTANT to be sure our youth and volun-

teers are properly covered by insurance.

4-H Leaders Meeting

All leaders are encouraged to attend the Annual Volun-teer Training and 4-H Leaders Meeting will be held on Tuesday, March 3 beginning at 7 pm at the Extension Office.

Agenda items include: fair schedules (Clover Café & Patrolling), support needed for clubs; upcoming dead-lines and more!

CLOVER KIDS CONNECTION FIND US AT: EXTENSION.IASTATE.EDU/4H/FAYETTE

Clover Kid Families,

Clover Kid Day Help Needed!

Interested in helping with the annual Clover Kid

day? A committee meeting will be held on Tuesday,

April 7 beginning at 6 pm at the Extension Office.

All interested persons, high school and older, are

encouraged to attend and assist with this fun filled

and educational day.

Clover Kid Day

The annual Clover Kid Day will be held on April 18 at

the Opera House in Fayette and is open to all

Fayette County Clover Kids. More information will

be sent to enrolled Clover Kids in late March/early

April.

Lucky Charms

Supplies Needed:

• Two 2-liter bottles

• Tape

• Lucky Charms cereal

Prep:

Fill a 2-liter bottle with Lucky Charms cereal (or get

this bag of marshmallows and just use the marshmal-

lows) then tape the filled bottle to another empty 2-

liter bottle.

How to Play:

Make sure all of the Lucky Charms are in one of the

bottles. Give the taped together bottles to the player

and when you say go, they must shake, shake, shake

the bottle to get all of the Lucky Charms to the other

bottle. First person to get all of the Lucky Charms

from one bottle to the other wins!

Four Leaf Clover Hunt

Supplies:

• Little Dixie cups – 10 per team

• Non-clear liquid of some sort,

Lucky Charms, or other St. Patrick’s Day inspired

edible item

• 4-leaf clover sticker

Prep:

Fill 10 little Dixie cups per team playing with a non-

clear liquid of some sort, Lucky Charms cereal, or

something else that says “St. Patrick’s Day.”

On the bottom of one little Dixie cup (per team, so if

you have five teams = 5 cups), put a 4-leaf clover

sticker. Don’t put anything on the others.

Line all of the cups up in a group on one table before

the game.

How to Play:

Players must pick one cup and eat/drink the contents

in it then look at the bottom of the cup to see if they

found a 4-leaf clover. If they didn’t, they must con-

tinue picking and consuming cup contents until they’ve

found one. First player to find a four-leaf clover

wins!

Scrunchy Shamrock Art

https://www.firefliesandmudpies.com/scrunchy-shamrock-art/

Supplies:

• Green tissue paper, variety of colors and cut

into small squares

• White tissue paper (optional and only needed if

youth are interested in turning 4-leaf clover

into the 4-H clover)

• Scissors

• Craft glue

• Pencil with an eraser

• Shamrock or 4-leaf clover template on heavy

cardstock or cardboard to help with curling of

the paper

1. Invite your child to cut out the shamrock or a 4

- leaf clover, if they would like.

2. Scrunch a small square of tissue paper around

the eraser end of a pencil as shown in picture

below.

3. Holding the pencil around the tissue paper, dip

the tissue paper covered end into glue.

4. Press the tissue paper onto the shamrock and

release.

Repeat directions 3 and 4 until the shamrock is

completely covered with tissue paper.

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March

1 — County 4-H Council Meeting, 1:30 pm, Ext. Office

2 — Fayette County 4-H Scholarship applications due

3 — Annual Statewide Volunteer Training & Leader Meeting, 7 pm, Extension Office

4 — 4-H Foundation Board Meeting, 7 pm, Ext. Office

5 — REQUIRED Swine Exhibitor Meeting, 7 pm, Exten-sion Office

7 — Archery Event, 9-11 am, Stephens Bldg., Fair-grounds

7 — YQCA Face to Face Training, 10 am & 1 pm, Ex-tension Office

10 — 2020-21 Citizenship Trip to Des Moines

12 — YDC Meeting, 7:30 pm, Extension Office

14 — 4-H Omelet Brunch Set-up, 9-11 am, Dance Pa-villion

15 — 4-H Omelet Brunch, 9 am—1 pm, Dance Pavilion

17 — Extension Council Meeting, 7:30 pm, Ext. Office

22-28 — 4-H Nation: Citizenship Trip, Washington DC

28 — 4-H/FFA Swine Weigh-in, 8-10 am, Fairgrounds

Michele Kelly

Fayette County Extension and Outreach

County Youth Coordinator

Email: kellymd@iastate.edu

Phone: 563-425-3331

Banks Go Getters: March 8, 6:30 pm, UMC

Bethel Generators: March 15, TBD, Dance Pavilion

Dover Clovers: March 1, 4 pm, Leader’s home

Dynamite Clovers: March 8, 5:30 pm, Maynard Comm Hall

Eden Outer Limits: March 15, 9 am, Tiedt home

Eldorado Eagles: March 8, 1:30 pm, Holy Name Church

Fayette Clovers: March 8, 2 pm, Fayette Library

Fayette Firecrackers: March 15, Omelet Brunch

Fremont Friends: March 1, 9:15 am, IC Church

Growing Greener: March 7, 8 am, Steinlage’s

Harlan Fremont: March 8, 7 pm, Maynard Comm Hall

Harlan NRG: March 8, 1-3 pm, Westgate Community Hall

Oelwein Cool Clovers:

Pleasant Valley Sharpshooters: March 1, 4 pm, Elgin Legion Hall

Scott Hot Shots & Clover Kids: March 1, 1 pm, Stanley Fire Station

Shooting Sports: Archery Event, March 7, 9-11 am, Stephens Bldg.

Windsor Sparkplugs: March 1, 6 pm, Hawkeye Legion

In accordance with Federal law and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) civil rights regulations and policies, this institution is prohibit-ed from discriminating on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, age, disability, and reprisal or retaliation for prior civil rights activity. (Not all prohibited bases apply to all programs.)