ideas for educational program

[prairiecomforts]

I am trying to grow the dairy goat project in our local county and regional 4H shows and have decided to host an Goat Educational Event in April. Here are some of the ideas for topics I want to talk about: Basic Goat Care/Feeding, Hoof Care, Breeding/Kidding, Good Health, and Goat Emergencies. There will be 4H members 5 to 19 and their parents and I am expecting younger siblings. Does anyone have any ideas for activites for the children afterwards. Since I am doing this myself - I have a pretty small budget. I am going to ask the local feed store for a donation of a bag of feed or something for a door prize. Any one else have any ideas on things that should be discussed?

[DocM]

This is what will be available at a goat conference in Oregon next weekend:

http://nwodga.org/2007_conference.htm
Scroll down to "topics"

This is what we covered at our own smaller goat learning day:
Topics:

Managing Parasites in the South & FAMACHA Eye Chart Teaching
What To Do Before the Vet Arrives
Care of the Pregnant Doe
Care of the New Kid
Cheese Making
DHIR Certification
Soap making
Goat Mineral Needs
Reading Feed Tags
General Goat Health
Do Your Own Fecal Exams
Beginning Goats
T-shirt painting and feeder building (I have the plans somewhere, I'll try to find them, edit this with the plan, it's a hanging feeder for hay/grain)
How the Judge Selects the Winner (Lots of showmanship practice)
Showmanship site: http://bouncinghoofs.com/showmanship.html
Made rope halters:
http://h1.ripway.com/mtdew999/halter.pdf
Youth Quiz-Bowl

For the quiz bowl, we used this 72 page quiz bowl document prepared by WSU. It's a big file, but feel free to download and use it.
http://h1.ripway.com/mtdew999/GoatQuiz.pdf

[annie716]

I attended a 4-H goat day with the teen that helps us make hay and got us started with the meat goats last year. It was a hands on at one of the leaders farms. The had the local vet present and gave vacinations, trimmed feet, were supposed to disbud but she didn't have any to do. The kids did everything w/ supervision from the leader. Goat bowl was very interesting, they had a large outline of a goat and one of the older girls went thru the body parts and how they should be for showing then each kid drew tags with a body part on it and had to put it in the proper place on the drawing. Very informative and might be something you could make into a group activity like pin the tail on the donkey!