EDDY COUNTY 4-H GREEN SCENE

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1 EDDY COUNTY 4-H GREEN SCENE April 2015 EDDY COUNTY STAFF Allison Leimer, 4-H Agent Woods Houghton Ag Agent Robin Kincaid Admin. Assistant Robyne Angelovic Admin. Assistant 1304 W. Stevens Carlsbad, NM Phone: Fax: Toll Free: New Mexico State University is an equal opportunity employer. All programs are available to everyone regardless of race, color, religion, sex, age, handicap, or national origin. Eddy County Government, NMSU, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture cooperating to put knowledge to work. Hello Eddy County! Allison s Alley Spring is finally here! Although I think its been getting a little too warm for me this early in the year! Spring also brings the beginning of fair season, so I hope you are all getting prepared! At Home Ec School, one of the community service projects was to make dog leashes and dog toys for the local animal shelters. If anyone has any fabric that you do not plan on using for anything, bring it to the Extension Office! Even a fabric you may think is ugly can be used in the dog leashes and toys and they will still turn out pretty great! I am going to start asking that you RSVP to workshops/programs that the Extension Office is organizing. Quite a few times we have arrived prepared to have a great workshop, only to have nobody show up or to have a couple members show up. If less than 5 members RSVP to a workshop or program, I will be cancelling it. However, no RSVP s are needed for the Cloverbud Crew group! If there are any parents who would like to be project leaders, please give me a call! If you have any ideas on workshops or projects you would like to see put on, please let me know! Strong people don t put others down, they lift them up. ~Michael P. Watson

2 PAGE 2 EDDY COUNTY 4-H GREEN SCENE 4- H Council Updates! Thank you to everyone who attended the 4-H Council meeting last month! We had over 30 members help make 31 Easter Baskets for Grammy s House in Artesia. They were very appreciative of the baskets and the 4-Her s who bought the supplies and assembled them! Congratulations to the new Council Secretary: Reagan Van Soest The Talent Show that was scheduled for April 18th has been cancelled. Eddy County Steer/Heifer Jackpot - is cancelled due to the Sullivan s Stock Show University being a two day event. Participating in the Stock Show University will count as a council event. I will be at the clinic, so find me to sign in! Eddy County Contest - Saturday, May 16th. We will set up contests for those who wish to attend District Contest. Please let me know which contests you are interested in participating in! Attending District & State Events also counts as a Council Event! Paper Clover Drive - participating for at least 1 hour at the drive at Tractor Supply (I will have a sign in sheet at the counter, sign it after your hour (I will be trusting you to complete the hour!) Next Council Meeting: April 13th at 6:00 pm at the Extension Office Steer Tagging Dates! Monday, April 6th, 4:00-6:00 pm Henry McDonald s Place - Off of G R Howard Rd, Loving, NM Going towards Loving from Carlsbad, turn left onto Hwy 31. Then turn right onto S. Donaldson Farm Rd. Then turn right onto G R Howard Rd. There are a bunch of old tractors lining the driveway. Old hay barns can be seen and pens are painted white. Thursday, April 16th, 4:30-6:00 pm Artesia Carlsbad Jim Bob Burnett s Pens - Corner of 13th and the Roswell Highway, Artesia, NM Goat, Sheep, and Swine Tagging Dates! Tuesday, May 26th, 5:30-8:00 pm; Fairgrounds Thursday, May 28th, 6:00-8:00 pm; at the Ag Farm (on Peach Lane) Saturday, May 30th, 7:00-9:00 am; Desert Willow Vet Clinic: 512 E. Fiesta Dr., Carlsbad, NM

3 PAGE 3 EDDY COUNTY 4-H GREEN SCENE Livestock Ownership Deadlines April 1st: Beef Cattle May 15th: Dairy Cattle May 20th: Sheep, meat goats, swine, breeding rabbits, & breeding poultry July 1st: Broilers, Fryer and Baker Rabbits Project Add/Drop Date is May 1st!! You must be enrolled in the project to exhibit in that project at the fair!!! PROJECT BOOK ORDERS!!! If you are ordering a project book/materials for your 4-H projects, you MUST PAY before we can order and send them to you. If you selected that you want a project book in 4-H Online, but have not yet received them, it is most likely because you still need to pay. Please contact Robyne at the office if you have any questions!! Horse Certificates Horse Certificates need to be done every year or renewed every year with approval of the County Agent. The horse certificate is a form similar to a registration form. You can find it on the 4-H website under Forms and Publications. They are due on May 1st to the Extension office. I also have a fillable pdf of the horse certificate, Cloverbud Crew! The next Cloverbud Crew meeting with be on April 9th at 6:00 at the Extension Office! Please note that this Cloverbud Crew meeting time is a week earlier than usual due to steer tagging! Hope to see you there! *April 9 - Terrariums (CHANGED DATE)* May 21 - Guinea Pigs June 18 - Making projects to enter at the fair! Head on out to Tractor Supply to donate $1 to the Eddy County 4-H Program!! Thanks for your support!!!

4 PAGE 4 EDDY COUNTY 4-H GREEN SCENE AROUND THE COUNTY Artesia Pig Sale Livestock Sales Saturday, April 4, 2015: Show at 10:00 am; Sale at 1:00 pm: Eddy County Fairgrounds Contact Wes Ivans: Cox Show Goats Annual Sale Saturday, April 4, 2015: 11:00 am. Any questions call Mandy at Rogers Maley Show Goats Spring Sale Saturday, April 4, 2015: 9:00 am. R649 N. 13th Lake Arthur, NM Set price pens, you choose For more information, contact Kristy Maley: AROUND THE STATE Fryer/Baker Rabbits Contact Dewayne Avery: Sandoval Livestock Sale Saturday, April 11, 2015: View Livestock 9:00am - 11:00am. Sale begins at 11:00am. Santa Fe County Fairgrounds: 3229 Rodeo Road Dowell Show Lambs Sales Round 1 Sale: Sunday, April 12th in Tucumcari. Sale will feature lambs born December 15 - February 15 Round 2 Sale: Saturday, May 16th in Tucumcari. Sale will feature lambs born February 16 - March 16 s.dowell49@hotmail.com Alamogordo Pig & Lamb Sale Sunday, April 12, 2015: Otero County Fairgrounds Blandford Farm Goats Live Auction Saturday, April 18, 2015: 7:00 am, 10:00am 3500 Hermanas Grade SW, Deming, NM 88030; Contact Janice Blandford: Metzger Show Pigs & Boar Goats - Dunlap Show Lambs 1st Sale: Saturday, April 4th: 1:00 pm at the farm 1 3/4 miles west of Estancia on HWY 55 2nd Sale: Saturday, May 2nd: 1:00 at the farm 1 3/4 miles west of Estancia on HWY 55 For more information: WARREN WAYNE RANDI TRAVIS JERRY ROWENA HOME TODD OR MICHELLE DUNLAP LAMBS Luna County 4-H & Deming FFA Pig, Goat, and Lamb Sale Saturday, May 9, 2015: 12:00PM, Southwestern NM State Fairgrounds; Deming, NM Jack Blandford:

5 PAGE 5 Ashes and I will be having a booth at the Earth Day Celebration at the Carlsbad Museum & Art Center!! Come visit us and the other organizations that will be there! EDDY COUNTY 4-H GREEN SCENE Sullivan s Stock Show University!! When: May 2nd & 3rd: Registration: 8:00-8:30 am on Saturday Where: Eddy County Fairgrounds, Artesia Professors: Jeff Sargent, Dan Sullivan, Mike Cone, Kolby Cone, and Matt Copeland What: Hands On Experience!! All students, from beginner to advanced showmen, will be split-up into small groups with a professor. All Stock Show U programs are complimentary provided by Sullivan Supply **Bring your calf, chute, show box with products, clippers, fitting mats, blower, extension cords, generators or any other equipment or products you would need for a show and learn with hands-on experience! ** Pre-registration encouraged! To pre-register for these programs go to ww.sullivansupply.com/ssu_clinic_schedule.html ** GRAD Program directions, hotels, schedule of events, etc., can also be found on our website, **For more information on the ARKANSAS, NEW MEXICO, LOUISIANA & TEXAS Stock Show University GRAD Program, contact Dan Sullivan at or dsullivan@hillsboro.net. 4-H Livestock Record App You can now organize your market livestock project information on your iphone or ipad and send customized reports to your ! Track your individual livestock project animals Track participation in events, meetings, shows, contests, and more Record animal weights, feed, and health and monitor average daily gains Enter project income, expenses, and assets to generate financial statements Use photos to customize each 4-H er and animal Export reports to analyze in spreadsheets, create graphs, or use in your record books!! Download the 4-H Livestock Record App to help you keep records for your 4-H projects!

6 4-H Horse School When: June 8, June 12, 2015 (registration 10:00 am - 1:00 pm) Where: New Mexico State Fairgrounds: Albuquerque, NM What: There will be a great group of talented, knowledgeable, and committed instructors, over multiple disciplines, to provide students with a quality education on horses and horsemanship. Members will have riding instruction twice a day and will have the opportunity to attend a variety of workshops. Cost: $250 per person (with or without a horse). Includes 4 nights lodging, 11 meals, and stall space for one horse plus arena fees. Chaperones will pay $100 to help defray the cost of meals and lodging without a horse. All parents/chaperones attending horse school will need to be screened volunteers. Dog School Registration DEADLINE is April 15th! When: June 12-14th (registration starts at 8:00 am.) Where: Bernalillo County Sheriff s Posse in Albuquerque, NM. Cost: $85/youth with dog; $18 for chaperone. Youth receive instruction in Obedience, Rally-Obedience, Agility, and Showmanship with their dogs. Beginning and intermediate/advanced levels. There will also be demos with Carting Dogs, Freestyle (Dancing) Dogs, Tracking Dogs, and Herding Dogs. Third day is a dog show for the youth. Dog/Horse/Livestock School 4-H Council Application At the last 4-H Council meeting it was decided that the 4-H Council will pay for half of a New Mexico State 4-H School. These schools include Dog School, Horse School, and Livestock School. If you are interested in attending any of these schools (livestock school is not offered this year), you must submit a paper explaining why you want to attend the school. This can include goals, what you would like to or hope to learn, if you will take any learned lessons back to your fellow club members, etc. There will be up to 5 scholarships awarded to 4-H members for a State 4-H School. Please send your applications to me by May 1st in order to be considered for the scholarship.

7 County/District Contests County/District Contests are a way for 4-H members to showcase and compete in an area(s) of their choice! All of the members usually have a ton of fun preparing and competing in the contests. The contests include: Air Rifle, Archery. Clothing Revue, Consumer Decision Making, Crops Judging, Entomology Novice and Junior, Favorite Food Show, Home Economics Bowl, Home Economics Skill-a-thon, Horse Bowl, Horse Judging, Horticulture, Land Judging, Livestock Judging, Livestock Skill-athon, Meats Identification, Parliamentary Procedure, Poetry, Presentations Agriculture, Engineering, General, Livestock, Clothing, Foods and General Home Economics, Public Speaking, Rifle, Wildlife (may change). Many of the contests have an ID portion and an exam portion. Judging contests include giving reasons, and the bowls are like quiz bowls! Please let me know what contest you are interested in participating in!! Once I have an idea of what teams we can set up, I will organize practices! 4-H Leader News National Volunteer Week April 12-18, H Leaders Thank You! Somewhere between the sternness of a parent and the comradeship of a pal is that mysterious creature we call a volunteer 4-H Leader. These leaders come in all shapes and sizes, and may be male or female. But they all have one thing in common - a glorious twinkle in their eyes! 4-H Leaders are found everywhere - at judging contests, 4-H meetings, fairs, and community service activities. They always are preparing for, sitting through, participating in, or recuperating from an event of some kind. They are tireless consumers of muffins, experts at taking knots out of thread and spend hours on the telephone, , facebook and other communication methods! A 4-H Leader is many things - an artist making a float for the Fourth of July, a doctor prescribing for an underfed calf, a counselor at camp, a lawyer filling out reports, and a shoulder to cry on when that dress just won't fit. Nobody else is so early to rise and so late to get home at night. Nobody else has so much fun with so many boys and girls. We can't do without them. They receive no salary and we can never repay them. They are angels in aprons, saints in straw hats. Their only reward is the love of the youth they work with and the respect of the community. But when they look around them at the skills they've taught, and the youth they've influenced, there's an inner voice from somewhere that says, "Well done." Author Unknown

8 EDDY COUNTY 4-H GREEN SCENE PAGE 8 Calendar of 4-H Events April 1 New Enrollment DEADLINE April 6 Steer Tagging - Loving April 9* Cloverbud Crew (CHANGED DATE) April 13 4-H Council Meeting - Carlsbad April 16 Steer Tagging - Artesia, Fairgrounds April 20 State 4-H Dog School Registration DEADLINE April Youth Get Away May 1 Project Add/Drop DEADLINE May 2-3 Sullivan s Stock Show University May 11 4-H Council Meeting - Artesia May 16 County Contest May 21 Cloverbud Crew - Carlsbad May 26 Tagging - Artesia, Fairgrounds May 28 Tagging - Carlsbad, Ag Farm May 30 Tagging - Carlsbad, Desert Willow Vet Clinic June 8-12 State Horse School June State 4-H Dog School June 13 Southeast District Shooting Sports - Roswell June Southeast District Contest - Clovis June 18 Cloverbud Crew - Carlsbad July State 4-H Conference July 18 Eddy County Fair 4-H Indoor Entry July 19 Eddy County Fair Livestock Entry July Eddy County Fair If anyone is interested in attending one of these events, please give me a call! - Allison