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4-H Record Book Portfolios
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- Project Record
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- Over half of your 4-H career is spent working on projects, and fittingly, over half of your record book is spent commemorating those projects.
- Section 1 provides a framework for planning, completing, and analysing each of your 4-H projects.
- How? Let's go through it step-by-step.
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- Note
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- When completing a project record for a project carried over from another organization (i.e. a school art project or the Supreme Beef program), the documentation from that organization may fit the criteria for a 4-H project record, and many people choose to submit that documentation as their section 1.
- This is acceptable, but the record book committee asks that you respect the judges' time by using the 4-H project record template, and not including extranneous information.
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- Requirements
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- Juniors (Ages 8-10)
- Intermediates (Ages 11-13)
- Seniors (Ages 14+)
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- Minimum # of Goals
- Two (2)
- Three (3)
- Four (4)
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- Project Description
- Addresses who, what, when and where of project qualitatively in less than 300 words.
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- Size and Scope
- Includes quantitative information pertaining to the materials and time required to complete the project. Financial Information and Market Summary sub-sections should be filled out if applicable to the project.
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- Knowledge and Skills Acquired
- Lists things learned in project.
- Lists things learned in project and addresses each goal.
- Lists things learned in project and demonstrates how at least 2 goals were met, as well as addressing all goals.
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- Exhibition Summary
- Lists exhibitions and placings from entire year.
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- Overview
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- Please just fill this box out.
- It's really not that hard, and I'd rather not waste the space (or the bandwidth) to explain in detail.
- If you really have questions, contact the Extension Office.
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- Goals
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- If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time
- Zig Ziglar
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- Goals provide direction for your 4-H project. If you've ever gone to any motivational leadership conference, you've heard about goals far more than you could ever care to, but the facts show the people with goals acomplish more. Great, you say, how do you make goals? I'm glad you asked.
- A goal is an objective or thing desired to happen with SMARTY attributes:
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- Specific
- A goal should only cover one area
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- - Bad Example
- - To walk my dog two miles every day this summer and teach her to fetch
- - Good Example
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- To walk my dog two miles every day
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- To teach my dog how to fetch
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- This goal needed to be split into two goals.
- Having more goals is great: just make sure that each goal stands alone.
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- Measurable
- Someone else should be able to objectively tell if you've met the goal or not.
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- - Bad Example
- - To shoot really well this year in .22
- - Good Example
- - To shoot an average of over 250 points over all my .22 practice shoots this year
-
- Measurable usually involves numbers or binary (true/false) statements.
- Notice how this example added a way of measuring (average) and a quantitative target (over 250 points).
- That is characteristic of measureable goals.
-
- What about To do better than last year?
-
- Invariably, record books are turned in each year with the goal "to do better than last year."
- Sometimes this is measurable, mostly it is not.
- It would be far better to identify exactly what you want to improve and find a way to measure that.
- If you do resort to this goal, you MUST keep your record book maticulously organised so that the judges can find how you did last year.
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- A
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- Achievable/Attainable
- You must be directly in charge of acomplishing the goal: it cannot depend partially on parents, animals, acts of nature, etc.
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- - Bad Example
- - To finish my market hog at a weight between 245 and 280 lbs.
- - Good Example
- - To learn how protein percentage in feed affects rate of gain in hogs
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- This does not mean that you cannot ask for help acomplishing your goals, but you do need to be in charge and take initiative for your goals.
- No human being can directly control an animal's behavior or weight, another persons opinions, or the weather.
- Make sure that your goals do not try to alter these things.
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- Realistic
- Your goals should be things you can actually acomplish with the resources (time, money) that you have.
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- - Bad Example
- - To make 20 saddles in the month of January
To carve one drink coaster by fair
- - Good Example
- - To complete two saddles by March of next year
-
- No 4-Her could have the money to buy materials for 20 saddles, or the time to make 20 saddles within one month: that is unrealistic.
- Difficulty can also play a role here.
- Making one coaster should not challenge anyone but a 1st-year leathercrafter, and would also be unrealistic.
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- T
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- Time-bound
- Set a deadline for your goals.
-
- - Bad Example
- - To breed half of my rabbit hutch
- - Good Example
- - To have bred half of my rabbit hutch by December
-
- Because record books are due annually, the defacto time-limit for all record book goals is the record book due date;
- so the time component isn't a deal-breaker.
- It really shows initative and professionalism, though, if you set a deadline before record books are due.
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- Why
- Every goal should have a bigger purpose or reason behind it.
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- - Bad Example
- - To volunteer for three leadership positions in the community this year (because I need another Youth Leadership goal for my record book)
- - Good Example
- - To volunteer for three leadership positions in the community this year (because I need to improve my public speaking and organizational skills)
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- How do you write SMARTY goals? Here's a way I like to do it:
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- - Get a blank sheet of paper and pencil (not your phone)
- - Write the project name and why you enrolled in that project at the top of the page
- - Write four or five things you would like to acomplish in that project (not SMARTY yet, if you can't make it that way)
- - Set aside your page for two months
- - For each of those things you wanted to do, write a SMARTY version
- - Add your new goals to your record book
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- I've found that, by writing down the goals early along with the why behind them, I will be more likely to acomplish my goals.
- Try it yourself, and I think you will, too.
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- Project Description
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- If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.
- Albert Einstein
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- Use the project description to explain what you did in the past year to someone who doesn't know anything about that subject.
- A good project description should read almost like a newspaper brief about your project.
- Like a good reporter, include information on the
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-
- -
- Who (parents, siblings, project leaders)
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- -
- What (leathercraft halter, market steer show, cooking recipe)
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- When (at fair, at the spring judging contest, at home all year)
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- and
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- Where (at Hansen arena, at home, at SAREC)
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- of your project.
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- Note
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- For many years, the role of the project description was very ambiguous.
- As such, there are very few record books that followed these guidelines, and most of the examples do not.
- Please use discernment when viewing the example project descriptions, and remember to use the reporter-like style when completing your record book.
- Who knows, then your book might wind up in the next set of examples.
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- Size & Scope
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- There's always a four-point-five percent margin of error, plus or minus.
- The Accountant in The Accountant (Short film)
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- The label "Size & Scope" has caused confusion for several generations of 4-Hers.
- Let's define these words to clear that up.
-
-
- - Size
- - is numbers, i.e. the number of hours spent, dollars invested, contest points earned, pounds of feed, etc.
-
- - Scope
- - indicates the varieties, different types, recipes, plants or animal breeds with which you worked.
-
-
- In short, Size & Scope is a quantitative analysis of everything you used to complete your project.
- Good Size & Scope sections vary widely depending on the project, but all of them record the items (physical or intellectual) used in the project, and the time and money spent on the project.
- Take a look at the examples for ideas to get you started.
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-
-
- Tip
-
-
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- Financial Information and Market Summary tables are provided under Size & Scope.
- They are not intended to serve as a full Size & Scope, but they may be useful to augment your existing data.
- Use them if you think they are appropriate to your project.
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- Knowledge & Skills Acquired
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- Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold.
- Proverbs 8:10 KJV
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-
- Knowledge & Skills Acquired serves two purposes.
- First, it allows you to address whether or not you met your goals.
- Second, it tells readers what you actually learned this year in your project.
-
-
- To complete Knowledge & Skills, create a heading for each goal you wrote.
- Write a paragraph (at least three sentences) explaining if you met the goal, how you met the goal (or why you did not meet the goal), and what you learned from the goal.
- After each goal is addressed, include paragraphs explaining anything else you learned about your project area.
- Remember that your readers might not know anything about your project area, so be sure to explain it in a way that a layperson can understand.
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- Exhibition Summary
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+ Section 1
+ ● Project Record
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+ Requirements
+
+
+ Juniors (Ages 8-10)
+ Intermediates (Ages 11-13)
+ Seniors (Ages 14+)
+
+
+ Minimum # of Goals
+ Two (2)
+ Three (3)
+ Four (4)
+
+
+ Project Description
+ Addresses who, what, when and where of project qualitatively in less than 300 words.
+
+
+ Size and Scope
+ Includes quantitative information pertaining to the materials and time required to complete the project. Financial Information and Market Summary sub-sections should be filled out if applicable to the project.
+
+
+ Knowledge and Skills Acquired
+ Lists things learned in project.
+ Lists things learned in project and addresses each goal.
+ Lists things learned in project and demonstrates how at least 2 goals were met, as well as addressing all goals.
+
+
+ Exhibition Summary
+ Lists exhibitions and placings from entire year.
+
+
+ Over half of your 4-H career is spent working on projects, and fittingly, over half of your record book is spent commemorating those projects.
+ Section 1 provides a framework for planning, completing, and analysing each of your 4-H projects.
+ How? Let's go through it step-by-step.
+
+
+
+ Note
+
+ When completing a project record for a project carried over from another organization (i.e. a school art project or the Supreme Beef program), the documentation from that organization may fit the criteria for a 4-H project record, and many people choose to submit that documentation as their section 1.
+ This is acceptable, but the record book committee asks that you respect the judges' time by using the 4-H project record template, and not including extranneous information.
+
+
+ Overview
+ Please just fill this box out.
+ It's really not that hard, and I'd rather not waste the space (or the bandwidth) to explain in detail.
+ If you really have questions, contact the Extension Office.
+ Goals
+ If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time Zig Ziglar
+ Goals provide direction for your 4-H project. If you've ever gone to any motivational leadership conference, you've heard about goals far more than you could ever care to, but the facts show the people with goals acomplish more. Great, you say, how do you make goals? I'm glad you asked.
+ A goal is an objective or thing desired to happen with SMARTY attributes:
+
+
+
+ S
+
+ Specific
+ A goal should only cover one area
+
+ - Bad Example
+ - To walk my dog two miles every day this summer and teach her to fetch
+ - Good Example
+ - To walk my dog two miles every day
+ To teach my dog how to fetch
+
+ This goal needed to be split into two goals.
+ Having more goals is great: just make sure that each goal stands alone.
+
+
+
+ M
+
+ Measurable
+ Someone else should be able to objectively tell if you've met the goal or not.
+
+ - Bad Example
+ - To shoot really well this year in .22
+ - Good Example
+ - To shoot an average of over 250 points over all my .22 practice shoots this year
+
+ Measurable usually involves numbers or binary (true/false) statements.
+ Notice how this example added a way of measuring (average) and a quantitative target (over 250 points).
+ That is characteristic of measureable goals.
+ What about To do better than last year?
+ Invariably, record books are turned in each year with the goal "to do better than last year."
+ Sometimes this is measurable, mostly it is not.
+ It would be far better to identify exactly what you want to improve and find a way to measure that.
+ If you do resort to this goal, you MUST keep your record book maticulously organised so that the judges can find how you did last year.
+
+
+
+ A
+
+ Achievable/Attainable
+ You must be directly in charge of acomplishing the goal: it cannot depend partially on parents, animals, acts of nature, etc.
+
+
+ - Bad Example
+ - To finish my market hog at a weight between 245 and 280 lbs.
+ - Good Example
+ - To learn how protein percentage in feed affects rate of gain in hogs
+
+
+ This does not mean that you cannot ask for help acomplishing your goals, but you do need to be in charge and take initiative for your goals.
+ No human being can directly control an animal's behavior or weight, another persons opinions, or the weather.
+ Make sure that your goals do not try to alter these things.
+
+
+
+
+ R
+
+ Realistic
+
+ Your goals should be things you can actually acomplish with the resources (time, money) that you have.
+
+ - Bad Example
+ - To make 20 saddles in the month of January
+ To carve one drink coaster by fair
+ - Good Example
+ - To complete two saddles by March of next year
+
+
+ No 4-Her could have the money to buy materials for 20 saddles, or the time to make 20 saddles within one month: that is unrealistic.
+ Difficulty can also play a role here.
+ Making one coaster should not challenge anyone but a 1st-year leathercrafter, and would also be unrealistic.
+
+
+
+ T
+
+ Time-bound
+
+ Set a deadline for your goals.
+
+ - Bad Example
+ - To breed half of my rabbit hutch
+ - Good Example
+ - To have bred half of my rabbit hutch by December
+
+
+ Because record books are due annually, the defacto time-limit for all record book goals is the record book due date;
+ so the time component isn't a deal-breaker.
+ It really shows initative and professionalism, though, if you set a deadline before record books are due.
+
+
+
+ Y
+
+ Why
+ Every goal should have a bigger purpose or reason behind it.
+
+ - Bad Example
+ - To volunteer for three leadership positions in the community this year (because I need another Youth Leadership goal for my record book)
+ - Good Example
+ - To volunteer for three leadership positions in the community this year (because I need to improve my public speaking and organizational skills)
+
+
+ You don't write the "why" in your record book, but if you have a good why, you will write better goals and be more motivated to acomplish those goals.
+
+
+
+ How do you write SMARTY goals? Here's a way I like to do it:
+
+ - Get a blank sheet of paper and pencil (not your phone)
+ - Write the project name and why you enrolled in that project at the top of the page
+ - Write four or five things you would like to acomplish in that project (not SMARTY yet, if you can't make it that way)
+ - Set aside your page for two months
+ - For each of those things you wanted to do, write a SMARTY version
+ - Add your new goals to your record book
+
+ I've found that, by writing down the goals early along with the why behind them, I will be more likely to acomplish my goals.
+ Try it yourself, and I think you will, too.
+ Project Description
+ If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself. Albert Einstein
+ Use the project description to explain what you did in the past year to someone who doesn't know anything about that subject.
+ A good project description should read almost like a newspaper brief about your project.
+ Like a good reporter, include information on the
+
+ - Who (parents, siblings, project leaders)
+ - What (leathercraft halter, market steer show, cooking recipe)
+ - When (at fair, at the spring judging contest, at home all year)
+ - and
+ - Where (at Hansen arena, at home, at SAREC)
+
+ of your project.
+
+
+ Note
+
+ For many years, the role of the project description was very ambiguous.
+ As such, there are very few record books that followed these guidelines, and most of the examples do not.
+ Please use discernment when viewing the example project descriptions, and remember to use the reporter-like style when completing your record book.
+ Who knows, then your book might wind up in the next set of examples.
+
+ Size & Scope
+ There's always a four-point-five percent margin of error, plus or minus. The Accountant in The Accountant (Short film)
+ The label "Size & Scope" has caused confusion for several generations of 4-Hers.
+ Let's define these words to clear that up.
+
+ - Size
+ - is numbers, i.e. the number of hours spent, dollars invested, contest points earned, pounds of feed, etc.
+ - Scope
+ - indicates the varieties, different types, recipes, plants or animal breeds with which you worked.
+
+ In short, Size & Scope is a quantitative analysis of everything you used to complete your project.
+ Good Size & Scope sections vary widely depending on the project, but all of them record the items (physical or intellectual) used in the project, and the time and money spent on the project.
+ Take a look at the examples for ideas to get you started.
+
+
+ Tip
+
+ Financial Information and Market Summary tables are provided under Size & Scope.
+ They are not intended to serve as a full Size & Scope, but they may be useful to augment your existing data.
+ Use them if you think they are appropriate to your project.
+
+ Knowledge & Skills Acquired
+ Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold. Proverbs 8:10 KJV
+ Knowledge & Skills Acquired serves two purposes.
+ First, it allows you to address whether or not you met your goals.
+ Second, it tells readers what you actually learned this year in your project.
+ To complete Knowledge & Skills, create a heading for each goal you wrote.
+ Write a paragraph (at least three sentences) explaining if you met the goal, how you met the goal (or why you did not meet the goal), and what you learned from the goal.
+ After each goal is addressed, include paragraphs explaining anything else you learned about your project area.
+ Remember that your readers might not know anything about your project area, so be sure to explain it in a way that a layperson can understand.
+ Exhibition Summary
+
+
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+Ever since I got my goats I have tested annually for Caseous Lymphadenitis (CL) and Caprine Arthritic Encephalitis (CAE). I had been told it was a good idea and saw many herds stating that they were CL and CAE negative. I never asked why it was so important to test for these. Here is why you should.
+Caseous Lymphadenitis commonly called CL
+CL is an untreatable disease that affects the lymphatic system of goats and other mammals. CL is caused by the bacterium Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis, it can show it’s self in lumps around the lymph nodes, by the neck, jaw, shoulder, flank, udder, and along the back of the thigh. They can also have internal abscesses on their lungs and livers as well. The bacterium is spread by the puss that comes out of the abscess and also can be spread by the goats coughing and the mucus from them coughing. When the bacterium enters it goes through the goat’s blood stream. The bacterium then works on destroying the lymph tissue. It can get into the lymph node and then fill it, not letting the lymph node or nodes work properly. The lymph system is very important to all bodies. The lymphatic system helps fight illnesses and bacteria. So CL compromises the system. When the immune system cannot work properly and therefore your goat can get even sicker an even die. CL can take 2 weeks to many months to be seen.
+Even though CL is untreatable, there is a vaccine. However it is not approved for lactating goats.
+Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis can infect humans as well. It is only thought to infect humans if they get the pus in their mouth, however this is not known for certain. So, always be careful when dealing with goats that have Caseous Lymphadenitis or the possibility of having it.
+Not all abscesses are CL. So do not worry too much if your goat gets a lump however treat it as soon as possible. If you think it might be CL you can take the goat to the vet and have the puss tested to check for CL. Remember the Lymph Node is usually were CL abides and is around the neck, jaw, shoulder, flank, thigh, and udder. Some abscesses such as those on the jaw can be caused by food stuck in their cheek. And other lumps can be caused by other infections or bugs bites or if they are in a pasture with branches they can get a lump from running into a tree to hard. And if your give an injection wrong that can leave a lump too. Whenever working with goats with abscesses it would be a good idea to wear gloves no matter what they have so you do not get sick too or pass on the infection to other animals you may have.
+Caprine Arthritic Encephalitis also called CAE or CAEV
+In 2007 up to 81% of Dairy goats had CAE.1 CAE is a disease that kills white blood cells in your goat, damaging and hurting their immune system. CAE shows itself by swelling around the knees, so knobby looking knees, and sometimes hardness in the udder. Some goats will not show any signs and still have CAE. On some goats if they do not have hair is missing on their knees it could mean they have CAE. Young goats who have CAE sometimes lean their head against a wall, because of inflammation of the brain stem and brain tissues. CAE is passed through colostrum, milk, and body fluids, (such as semen from bucks.)You can take the kids off their dams and pasteurize the dam’s milk and then feed it to the kids and you can cut down on CAE spreading. A goat can get CAE and not show any signs for month and years, in fact many goats never show any signs through their whole life. Currently there is no known cure or vaccine. And it is not known to be communicable to humans.
+Testing for CL and CAE is an important thing to do. Both are very painful for the animal and can cause production and longevity to go down not only for one goat but for your entire herd. Testing yearly would be a good idea if you take your goats to shows or you have a new goat in your herd or if the neighbor’s goat came over for a visit. If your herd is a closed herd in would not hurt to have them tested every 5 years just to make sure all is well as goats can be asymptomatic.
+The most common and reliable why to test for both CL and CAE is with blood testing. You can have your veterinarian draw the blood and send it to a lab for you. You can draw the blood yourself however people get a lot more false positives that way. You can sometimes get false negatives too so that is a reason why testing yearly is a good idea. You want NEGATIVES for both CL and CAE.
+I now know why I test for CL and CAE and am glad even though I did not know what they were that I tested for them. I hope to share this with many people who are having problems with CL and CAE in their herds all around the world.
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- - Over half of your 4-H career is spent working on projects, and fittingly, over half of your record book is spent commemorating those projects. - Section 1 provides a framework for planning, completing, and analysing each of your 4-H projects. - How? Let's go through it step-by-step. -
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| Project Description | -Addresses who, what, when and where of project qualitatively in less than 300 words. | -||
| Size and Scope | -Includes quantitative information pertaining to the materials and time required to complete the project. Financial Information and Market Summary sub-sections should be filled out if applicable to the project. | -||
| Knowledge and Skills Acquired | -Lists things learned in project. | -Lists things learned in project and addresses each goal. | -Lists things learned in project and demonstrates how at least 2 goals were met, as well as addressing all goals. | -
| Exhibition Summary | -Lists exhibitions and placings from entire year. | -||
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-- Please just fill this box out. - It's really not that hard, and I'd rather not waste the space (or the bandwidth) to explain in detail. - If you really have questions, contact the Extension Office. -
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-- If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time - Zig Ziglar --
Goals provide direction for your 4-H project. If you've ever gone to any motivational leadership conference, you've heard about goals far more than you could ever care to, but the facts show the people with goals acomplish more. Great, you say, how do you make goals? I'm glad you asked.
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I've found that, by writing down the goals early along with the why behind them, I will be more likely to acomplish my goals. - Try it yourself, and I think you will, too.
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-- If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself. - Albert Einstein --
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-- There's always a four-point-five percent margin of error, plus or minus. - The Accountant in The Accountant (Short film) --
- The label "Size & Scope" has caused confusion for several generations of 4-Hers. - Let's define these words to clear that up. -
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- In short, Size & Scope is a quantitative analysis of everything you used to complete your project. - Good Size & Scope sections vary widely depending on the project, but all of them record the items (physical or intellectual) used in the project, and the time and money spent on the project. - Take a look at the examples for ideas to get you started. -
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-- Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold. - Proverbs 8:10 KJV --
- Knowledge & Skills Acquired serves two purposes. - First, it allows you to address whether or not you met your goals. - Second, it tells readers what you actually learned this year in your project. -
-- To complete Knowledge & Skills, create a heading for each goal you wrote. - Write a paragraph (at least three sentences) explaining if you met the goal, how you met the goal (or why you did not meet the goal), and what you learned from the goal. - After each goal is addressed, include paragraphs explaining anything else you learned about your project area. - Remember that your readers might not know anything about your project area, so be sure to explain it in a way that a layperson can understand. -
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- - -Section 1 + ● Project Record
+Requirements
+| + | Juniors (Ages 8-10) | +Intermediates (Ages 11-13) | +Seniors (Ages 14+) | +
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| Minimum # of Goals | +Two (2) | +Three (3) | +Four (4) | +
| Project Description | +Addresses who, what, when and where of project qualitatively in less than 300 words. | +||
| Size and Scope | +Includes quantitative information pertaining to the materials and time required to complete the project. Financial Information and Market Summary sub-sections should be filled out if applicable to the project. | +||
| Knowledge and Skills Acquired | +Lists things learned in project. | +Lists things learned in project and addresses each goal. | +Lists things learned in project and demonstrates how at least 2 goals were met, as well as addressing all goals. | +
| Exhibition Summary | +Lists exhibitions and placings from entire year. | +||
Over half of your 4-H career is spent working on projects, and fittingly, over half of your record book is spent commemorating those projects. + Section 1 provides a framework for planning, completing, and analysing each of your 4-H projects. + How? Let's go through it step-by-step.
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+Overview
+Please just fill this box out. + It's really not that hard, and I'd rather not waste the space (or the bandwidth) to explain in detail. + If you really have questions, contact the Extension Office.
+Goals
+If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time Zig Ziglar+
Goals provide direction for your 4-H project. If you've ever gone to any motivational leadership conference, you've heard about goals far more than you could ever care to, but the facts show the people with goals acomplish more. Great, you say, how do you make goals? I'm glad you asked.
+A goal is an objective or thing desired to happen with SMARTY attributes:
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This goal needed to be split into two goals. + Having more goals is great: just make sure that each goal stands alone. ++ |
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+ Measurable+Someone else should be able to objectively tell if you've met the goal or not. +
Measurable usually involves numbers or binary (true/false) statements. + Notice how this example added a way of measuring (average) and a quantitative target (over 250 points). + That is characteristic of measureable goals. +What about To do better than last year?+Invariably, record books are turned in each year with the goal "to do better than last year." + Sometimes this is measurable, mostly it is not. + It would be far better to identify exactly what you want to improve and find a way to measure that. + If you do resort to this goal, you MUST keep your record book maticulously organised so that the judges can find how you did last year. ++ |
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+ Achievable/Attainable+You must be directly in charge of acomplishing the goal: it cannot depend partially on parents, animals, acts of nature, etc. + +
+ This does not mean that you cannot ask for help acomplishing your goals, but you do need to be in charge and take initiative for your goals. + No human being can directly control an animal's behavior or weight, another persons opinions, or the weather. + Make sure that your goals do not try to alter these things. + ++ |
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+ Realistic++ Your goals should be things you can actually acomplish with the resources (time, money) that you have. +
+ No 4-Her could have the money to buy materials for 20 saddles, or the time to make 20 saddles within one month: that is unrealistic. + Difficulty can also play a role here. + Making one coaster should not challenge anyone but a 1st-year leathercrafter, and would also be unrealistic. ++ |
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+ Because record books are due annually, the defacto time-limit for all record book goals is the record book due date; + so the time component isn't a deal-breaker. + It really shows initative and professionalism, though, if you set a deadline before record books are due. ++ |
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+ Why+Every goal should have a bigger purpose or reason behind it. +
+ You don't write the "why" in your record book, but if you have a good why, you will write better goals and be more motivated to acomplish those goals. + + |
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How do you write SMARTY goals? Here's a way I like to do it:
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- Get a blank sheet of paper and pencil (not your phone) +
- Write the project name and why you enrolled in that project at the top of the page +
- Write four or five things you would like to acomplish in that project (not SMARTY yet, if you can't make it that way) +
- Set aside your page for two months +
- For each of those things you wanted to do, write a SMARTY version +
- Add your new goals to your record book +
I've found that, by writing down the goals early along with the why behind them, I will be more likely to acomplish my goals. + Try it yourself, and I think you will, too.
+Project Description
+If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself. Albert Einstein+
Use the project description to explain what you did in the past year to someone who doesn't know anything about that subject. + A good project description should read almost like a newspaper brief about your project. + Like a good reporter, include information on the
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- Who (parents, siblings, project leaders) +
- What (leathercraft halter, market steer show, cooking recipe) +
- When (at fair, at the spring judging contest, at home all year) +
- and +
- Where (at Hansen arena, at home, at SAREC) +
of your project.
+Note
+Size & Scope
+There's always a four-point-five percent margin of error, plus or minus. The Accountant in The Accountant (Short film)+
The label "Size & Scope" has caused confusion for several generations of 4-Hers. + Let's define these words to clear that up.
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+
- Size +
- is numbers, i.e. the number of hours spent, dollars invested, contest points earned, pounds of feed, etc. +
- Scope +
- indicates the varieties, different types, recipes, plants or animal breeds with which you worked. +
In short, Size & Scope is a quantitative analysis of everything you used to complete your project. + Good Size & Scope sections vary widely depending on the project, but all of them record the items (physical or intellectual) used in the project, and the time and money spent on the project. + Take a look at the examples for ideas to get you started.
+Tip
+Knowledge & Skills Acquired
+Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold. Proverbs 8:10 KJV+
Knowledge & Skills Acquired serves two purposes. + First, it allows you to address whether or not you met your goals. + Second, it tells readers what you actually learned this year in your project.
+To complete Knowledge & Skills, create a heading for each goal you wrote. + Write a paragraph (at least three sentences) explaining if you met the goal, how you met the goal (or why you did not meet the goal), and what you learned from the goal. + After each goal is addressed, include paragraphs explaining anything else you learned about your project area. + Remember that your readers might not know anything about your project area, so be sure to explain it in a way that a layperson can understand.
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