Eastern Region - 4-H

Judging Manuals/Study Material

Judging Teams are designed to train young people in decision making skills. If you are interested in participating on a judging team, please contact your local county Extension office.

The following judging manuals are to used as an aid in training for judging teams. Others will be available soon. Check the Judging Team Info page for information and results.

Hormel Livestock Judging Scoring System

Judging Team Grade Eligibility

Clothing Judging, Junior High, Publication 1491

Clothing Judging, Senior High, Publication 1442

Tennessee 4-H Dairy Judging Manual

Food and Nutrition, Junior High, Publication 1555

Food and Nutrition, Senior High, Publication 1556

Forestry Contests Rules and Regulations

Land Judging Manual, Publication 727

Plant and Seed ID, Publication 1046

Poultry Judging, Publication 750

Sheep Judging and Evaluation Manual, Publication 1142

Wildlife Judging Manual (National Wildlife Habitat

Evaluation Program Manual)

For individual chapters of this manual go to: http://whep.org

Wildlife Judging Quiz; Wildlife Judging Key

Information from the 2008 Judging Team Trainings

LifeSkills: powerpoint, pdf

Livestock Judging: Introduction and Evaluation; Resources

Meat Identification Judging

Outdoor Meat Cookery

Wildlife Judging

Poultry Judging and Chick Chain Inservice - September 13, 2007

This link connects you to all the information presented by Kelly Robbins.

http://animalscience.ag.utk.edu/AgentDownloads/PoultryProject.htm

Horse:  

http://animalscience.ag.utk.edu/SharePoint.html (go to 4-H Horse Project link) (Agents only)

http://www.4hhorse.umd.edu/resources/horsejudging.html (several horse judging manuals can be accessed from this site)

http://aged.ces.uga.edu/Games/horse_judging.htm 

http://animalscience.tamu.edu/academics/equine/online-judging/archives/index.htm (great site includes several horse judging videos which can be easily accessed thru the web)

http://www.judging101.com/  (you must subscribe to this one)