Madison and Culpeper 4-H members teamed up for the 2009 VA Poultry Federation Youth Convention on April 24 at the Rockingham Co Fairgrounds. This was the largest contest in many years with over 200 4-Hers and FFA members participating. The poultry judging contest consisted of judging exterior and interior qualities of market eggs, grading both chicken and turkey carcasses, identifying poultry parts, and placing 2 classes of production hens along with oral reasons for those placings.
Contest Results: Madison-Culpeper Junior A Team – 1st place team; Madison-Culpeper Junior B Team – 3rd place team and Madison-Culpeper Senior Team – 3rd place team
Overall High Point Juniors: Nathaniel Sides/Madison 1st place, Anna Maria Eakins/Madison 2nd place, Tim Hughes/Culpeper 3rd place and Simeon Koranek/Madison 4th place
Overall High Point Seniors: Micah Koranek/Madison 2nd place, Rebekah Yowell/Madison 7th place.
The M/C Team B did not place any individuals in the top ten but the team included: Sarah Hughes/Culpeper, Bryan Jarrell/Madison, Sarah Jarrell/Madison an d Elizabeth Koranek/Madison. Mary Quinn Eakins/Madison Senior 4-Her assisted in coaching the team and served as a contest proctor in the FFA division of the contest. Because Mary Quinn has been a member of the VA state poultry judging team she is no longer eligible to participate as a contestant so she has put her skills into coaching.
Afternoon activities included: the Poultry Carnival. touring Tyson’s processing plant or the VA Department of Agriculture’s Lab in Harrisonburg, a necropsy workshop and an embryology workshop.
Club leaders and chaperones accompanying the 4-Her’s were Laurie Hughes, Cherie Jarrell, and Norma Sides.
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