4-H Youth Development

General Information

Morgan County 4-H Informational Brochure:

• Welcome to Morgan County 4-H

Required Forms for most 4-H activities/events:

• Medical Information & Release version 2019. (This 4-H form is turned-in for most 4-H events)
  
• Medicine Form  version 2019.
  
• Code of Conduct Form  version 2019 (This 4-H form is completed once a year)
• 4-H Annual Enrollment Card  (This 4-H form is completed once a year.) updated for 2021.
  • NEW: On-line Enrollment now available for all 4-12 grade Morgan County students! 
    
    • You don't need to complete any more paper enrollment forms!
      
    • Use this link to fill-in some basic info about you: Morgan County 4-H Enrollment Registration
  • Standard Enrollment with paper registration form: Cloverleaf 4-H (grades 4-6); Junior 4-H (Junior-grades 7-8); (Senior-grades 9-12)  Enrollment Card
   

What's Going on in Morgan County?

• Horse Club
• Home School 4-H Club
  
• Judging Events:
  >>On This Page
  • Consumer Judging
    
  • Dairy,
    
  • Horse, 
  • Livestock,
    
  • Poultry,
    
  • Wildlife,
• Knowledge Quiz Bowls:
  
  • Diary
  • Horse
• Newsletters
• State Congress
  
• State Council (9th-12th Grades)
  
• Showing Livestock with Morgan County 4-H
• Fundraising

Newsletters

Cloverleaf 4-H

• Clover News--
  
  • November/ December 2021
    

Morgan County 4-H Home School Club

• An educational, fun club for home schoolers!  Join our club meetings held at the Morgan County Extension/4-H Office, 440 Hancock Street, Madison, GA
  
• Meeting Dates - > First Monday of each month during the school calendar.  Time: 2:30-3:30 pm
  

            Contact:  Janet Woodard, 706-342-2214.   

• Georgia 4-H Home Based Education Resources
  

Georgia 4-H Centers schedule events specific for home based families to participate in activities for overnight or day field studies.

>Rock Eagle 4-H Center – 706-484-2899 - http://www.rockeagle4h.org/

Saturday @ the Rock- Takes place on the third Saturday of each month offering different topics such as; Watershed Studies, etc. Open to everyone. For more info check:  Community Programs at Rock Eagle 4-H Center

Morgan County 4-H Project Clubs

4-H Horse Club-

Have fun learning about horses. This equine club meets the 2nd Monday of each month during the school calendar year. You don't need to own a horse to be a member!  4th - 12th Grade.

• Learn horse care
• Learn training techniques
• Participate fun field trips
• Perform Community Service projects

   Upcoming Important Dates

• Horse Lease Forms due:  sample horse leasing form is available here:  Sample Horse Leasing Form
  

Contact the 4-H Office (706) 342-2214 for more information.

Judging and Team Events:  Learn More  (you will be taken to new page)

• 4-H Cotton Boll and Consumer Jamboree (Consumer Judging)
  • Become a savvy consumer and made good decisions on spending your money!
  • Learn about cotton and its impact on Georgia
  • Call Mrs. Janet or Mrs. Cagle for more details: 706-324-2214.
    

• Dairy Judging
  • We will be forming a team in the Spring!  Call for more information:  Shannon Cagle (706) 342-2214

You will be able to identify cow breeds and evaluate classes of dairy animals and back-up your ranking choices with oral reasons.   

• Horse Judging and Hippology

This contest is open to all 4-H'ers from all over Georgia ages 9-19.  Contest is in Spring. See more info under our Morgan County Horse Club listed above.

• Poultry Judging
  
  • Call for more information:  Shannon Cagle (706) 342-2214

        As a poultry team member you will examine eggs and judge their quality and be able to candle them to assign a quality grade.  You will be able to evaluate live chickens to judge their ability to be a good laying hen.   

• Wildlife Judging Team.  Call Janet Woodard (706) 342-2214 for more information. 
  

  

>Team members will learn about wildlife habitat and risk
>Identify risks and damages
>Learn common wildlife and Fisheries Food

• Livestock Judging
   >Team members will:  acquire better knowledge of livestock and develop skills in choosing good livestock, identifying breeds and classes of livestock, study and judge beef cattle, hogs and sheep.
  
  • No animals are required to participate
    

4-H Educational Events and Civic Engagement

• 4-H State Council:  This annual meeting is where the elections of Georgia 4-H State Officers occur as well as multiple events, competitions and training for any current 8th-12th grade 4-H member.
  
• 4-H State Congress, is the premiere competitive and recognition event for high school age Georgia 4-H’ers.  Held each year in Atlanta, State Congress is a four-day event that hosts various contests, recognizes 4-H scholarship recipients, and honors state 4-H winners in a variety of projects and competitions.

Knowledge Quiz Bowl Opportunities

• Dairy Quiz Bowl- Youth participating in 4-H Dairy Quiz Bowl receive a better knowledge of dairy-related topics and learn to demonstrate that knowledge in a competitive and thought-stimulating environment. They also receive important life skills, such as confidence, independence and compassion. They have the opportunity to strengthen their decision-making and leadership skills in an environment which allows contribution to a group effort, encouraging teamwork and collaboration with a diverse group of peers.
  
  
• Horse Quiz Bowl- The Georgia 4-H Horse Quiz Bowl contest is in January 2021 in Morgan County. Teams of either four or five members from one county compete in a game show type format and answer questions related to equine subject matter. Teams are practicing now:  Tuesdays from-4:00-5:00 pm.  You can ride the school bus to our office.  Contact the school for details.
  

Each contest consists of double elimination tournament style matches where two teams compete at a time. A county can bring up to two senior and two junior teams to the area contest. Junior (4-8 grade) and Senior (9-12 grade) 4-H members are eligible to compete in Horse Quiz Bowl. Members of the winning senior division team become master 4-H’ers and go on to compete at Western National Round Up in Denver, CO.

For specific details call Lucy Ray, Morgan County Extension: 706-342-2214.

District Project Achievement-Public Speaking and Presentation Skills Competitions

Learn More

Youth Leadership Programs  

• Leadership In Action
• Certified 4-H Teen Leaders- Next Training, To be Announced, 2018.  

Livestock Showing with Morgan County 4-H

Showing Livestock with Morgan County 4-H (tri-fold brochure)

• If you are interested in showing livestock with 4-H we have show teams for the following:
  • Market Goats
  • Breeding Ewes
  • Breeding Does
  • Market Hogs
  • Registered Beef
  • Commercial Dairy Heifers
  • Poultry

Call our 4-H office to sign-up.  706.342.2214.

Fundraising

Morgan County Fundraiser CAmpaigns

Pre-Order Only Fundraisers.  All proceeds support Morgan County 4-H Programs and Activities

• Vidalia Onion: (Spring) Mid-March-Early May.  Pick-up is as soon as the onions are dug.
  

• Fruit Tree and Bush Sale: (Late summer-Early Fall) Just in time to plant! Pick-up is usually the first Friday-Sat am in November

Thank you for your support!