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Requirements April 1930 until June 1948

1. Have a knowledge of incubators, foster-mothers, sanitary fowl houses, coops and runs.

2. Understand, through experience, rearing, feeding, killing and dressing birds for market.

3. Be able to candle and pack eggs for market; describe the differences, in candling, which distinguish the bad eggs from the good; and tell how eggs are graded.

4. Raise a brood of not less than ten chickens.

5. Report his observations and study of the hen, turkey, duck and goose.

OR

Comply with the 4-H Club or Home Project Requirements in Poultry Management as follows:

1. Own a pen of chickens.
2. Do all the work in its care and management as required in the project by leaders.
3. Keep accurate cost account records.
4. Exhibit poultry as required by state and county leaders in charge.
5. Make complete report at end of season or year as required by leaders in charge.

Requirements June 1948 until June 1952

1. Have a knowledge of incubators, foster-mothers, sanitary fowl houses, coops and runs.

2. Understand, through experience, rearing, feeding, killing and dressing birds for market.

3. Be able to candle and pack eggs for market, describe the differences, in candling, which distinguish the bad eggs from the good; and tell how eggs are graded.

4. Raise a brood of not less than ten chickens.

5. Report his observations and study of the hen, turkey, duck and goose.

OR

Comply with the 4-H Club or Home Project Requirements in Poultry Management.

Requirements June 1952 until January 1957

1. Have a knowledge of incubators, brooders, sanitary fowl houses, coops and runs.

2. Understand, through experience, rearing, feeding, killing and dressing birds for market.

3. Be able to candle and pack eggs for market, describe the differences, in candling, which distinguish the bad eggs from the good; and tell how eggs are graded.

4. Raise a brood of not less than ten fowl.

5. Report his observations and study of the hen, turkey, duck and goose.

OR

Comply with the 4-H Club or Home Project Requirements in Poultry Management.

Requirements January 1957 until June 1972

Complete the requirements in one of the following groups:

Rearing Pullets

1. Raise and take care of twenty or more chicks (straight run or pullet) for five months.

2. Keep records on all management practices (feed consumption, mortality, medications, vaccinations) and present them to your merit badge counselor.

3. Tell how to identify three poultry diseases common in your area and how you prevent your pullets from contracting these diseases.

4. Make one piece of equipment (waterer, feeder, brooder, for example) and put it to good use.

5. Describe the brooding house in which you raised your pullets. Explain how you provided for proper sanitation and ventilation.

Flock Management

1. Manage a flock (your own or a neighbor's) of ten or more pullets or hens for six months. Birds should be at least five months old at the start.

2. Keep daily egg production records and records on feed consumption and mortality. Turn these records in to your merit badge counselor.

3. Tell how to identify three poultry diseases common in your area and how you prevent your birds from contracting these diseases. Explain culling.

4. Make one piece of equipment (feeder, waterer, catching hood, roosts, for example) and put it to good use.

5. Candle, grade, and pack two dozen eggs for market.

Poultry Meat Production

1. Raise twenty or more broilers, fryers, roasters, caponettes, capons, turkeys, or ducks to market age.

2. Keep accurate records of feed consumption, mortality, weight gains, etc., and turn them in to your merit badge counselor.

3. Write a concise report on the management of your birds. Include information on brooding, housing sanitation, feeding, and disease control.

4. Make one piece of equipment (feeder, waterer, catching hook, disposal pit, for example) and put it to good use.

5. Kill and dress two birds for market.

* As a 4-H'er, complete a club project in this subject. Or as an FFA member, meet these or equivalent requirements through the FFA supervised farming program.