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Impact Report

For plan Youth Development (Cibola County)
Date November 1, 2010, 4:38 pm
For Objective Short-term Show short-term objectives
Impact Report This year Cibola County has 11 clubs, 1 of which is a new club. Cibola County has a total of 112 members enrolled in clubs, 94 4-H members and 18 Cloverbud members. There were 35 new enrolled members, 43 members were in there 2nd or 3rd year, and there were 34 4-H’ers that have been members for 4 or more years. The Agent spent a considerable amount of time in supporting Cibola county 4-H youth, parents and leaders with a variety of projects. By working on these projects youth are developing life skills and gaining a greater knowledge of the project subject matter. Cibola County 4-H youth showcase and complete their projects at Cibola County Achievement Day, Shiprock Fair, Ramah Navajo Fair, Bi-County Fair, New Mexico State Fair, and the Navajo Nation Fair. This past year in the county we had 12 market steers, 12 market sheep, 60 market swine, 14 market goats, 3 dairy goats, 2 pygmy goats, 4 breeding animals. There was also a good showing of rabbit and poultry projects. Home Visits The majority of youth in the Cibola County 4-H program are involved in livestock projects. The 4-H agent made visits too many residences to ensure progress of projects, weigh, offer suggestions, and assist with any questions. Projects seen while making these visits included market swine, market lamb, market steer, meat goat, dairy goat, pygmy goat, and poultry projects. Home visits make it possible to ensure that the project is progressing and will be successful. Livestock School The Agent along with 17 4-H members and 4 volunteers from Cibola County attended. There was 13 youth that attended pig school, 3 youth that attended steer school, and 1 youth attended goat school. Cibola County Achievement Day Cibola County Achievement Day is for the 4-H youth of Cibola County. It is a one day jackpot style livestock and indoor project show. There was an attendance of 50 4-H members from Cibola. Although, there is awards Achievement Day servers as a practice day for the youth for other fairs they will be attending. This day provides an additional opportunity for the agent to ensure that the projects are progressing properly, to make suggestions on project finish, and to offer showmanship tips. Bi-County Fair The Bi-County fair is for youth in both Cibola and McKinley Counties. The Fair runs five days and members exhibit their animals as well as indoor entries for the entire length of the fair. This was the 41st year for the Bi-County fair. There was an attendance of 85 4-H members from both Cibola and McKinley that exhibited 4-H animal projects. Of the 200 large animal entries, there were 58 entries that qualified for the Junior Livestock sale. There were 252 indoor 4-H projects that were exhibited by 4-H youth. This year the Bi-County Fair Junior Livestock Auction raised over $84,000 in sales and add-on’s (donations) to 4-H members whose projects qualified for the Junior Livestock sale. During each day of the fair the agent assisted the 4-H youth, assisted with conducting shows and preformed other needed jobs. State Events One member and a parent attended and participated in the Northwest/Northeast District 4-H Contest. This member competed in many various contests over the two-day period. One member participated in State 4-H Conference.