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Quality Counts e-learning• Each building represents a unit.

• The 5 units take the learner from the home to the show.– Project Purpose– Food Safety– Animal Facilities/Selection – Daily Care– Preparing for Show

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Quality Counts e-learning

• Each unit includes– Learning material– Interactive activities– Scored games– Character building scored questions– Thought provoking bonus questions– Fun facts

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We’re proud to bring you an interactive experience that’s second-to-none…because QUALITY COUNTS!

Today’s Feature Presentation is:

Project Purpose:Why Should I Have a Livestock Project?

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Welcome to the Quality Counts Cineplex!

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Please turn off your cell phones so everyone can enjoy the show.

First, a few words from our sponsors…

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Welcome to the Quality Counts Cineplex!

Come in and have a seat!

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Both 4-H and FFA were founded to help youth develop:

• Leadership skills• Life skills• Social skills• Emotional skills • Physical skills

All the skills that lead to career success!

Wow, they do a lot.

4-H and FFA are proud to sponsor Texas youth livestock projects!

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4-H Mission

Prepare youth to meet the challenges of childhood, adolescence and adulthood, through a coordinated, long-term, progressive series of educational experiences that enhance life skills and develop social, emotional, physical and cognitive competencies.

Click the logo to learn more about 4-H, or click Next to continue.

What does it mean?

I’m not sure. Let’s click the

logo.

4-H and FFA are proud to sponsor Texas youth livestock projects!

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4-H Mission

Prepare youth to meet the challenges of childhood, adolescence and adulthood, through a coordinated, long-term, progressive series of educational experiences that enhance life skills and develop social, emotional, physical and cognitive competencies.

Click the logo to learn more about 4-H, or click Next to continue.

What does it mean?

I’m not sure. Let’s click the

logo.

4-H and FFA are proud to sponsor Texas youth livestock projects!

To make the best better, I pledge my head to clearer thinking, my heart to greater loyalty, my hands to larger service, and my health to better living for my club, my community, my country, and my world.

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Quality Counts Cineplex presents:

The 4-H Pledge

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Producers are consumers too. We all expect the food we eat to be safe.

When you care about your fellow consumers and understand the responsibility of producing safe products you become a better citizen.

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Food Safety

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Following label instructions

Any of the products you give your animal through feed, water or injection may effect the meat from your animal.

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Food Safety

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The food supply continuum is the series of processes food products move through on their way from the producer to the consumer.

Food Supply Continuum

Click on each segment of the continuum to learn more.

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The food supply continuum is the series of processes food products move through on their way from the producer to the consumer.

Food Supply Continuum

Click on each segment of the continuum to learn more.

Producer

A producer is the person responsible for raising a healthy animal.

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The food supply continuum is the series of processes food products move through on their way from the producer to the consumer.

Food Supply Continuum

Click on each segment of the continuum to learn more.

Transportation

Transportation carries the animal from the farm to the market. Livestock haulers play an important role in food safety and meat quality by the way they treat and handle the animals.

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Keeping your animals comfortable reduces stress on them. This helps to keep them healthy.

There are several ways to help keep your animals comfortable.

Select the livestock type that you own to learn more.

Animal Facilities

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Roll over various pieces of equipment in the barn to see what they are used for.

Animal Facilities

Sheep need 20 sq. feet of space per lamb.

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Roll over various pieces of equipment in the barn to see what they are used for.

Animal Facilities

When the outside temperaturerises above the level of sheep’ comfort zone, fans keep the sheepcool.

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Roll over various pieces of equipment in the barn to see what they are used for.

Animal Facilities

Animals need clean bedding. When the outside temperaturedrops below the level of the sheep’scomfort zone bedding such as straw can keep sheep warm. A dry bed acts as insulation for theanimal. This decreases the amount of energy an animal needs to use to keep warm.

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Animal Facilities

Points

Your friend is raising an a livestock animal for show. You notice that she never cleans out the animals pen. She also does not clean out the water. All she does is make sure that her animal has feed. You also notice that there are straw bale strings in the pen.

What should you do?

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Animal Facilities

Points300

Choose one:

o You ignore it. It is not your animal anyway.o You tell her that she should give her animal fresh water everyday, that she needs to make sure that her pen is clean and that she needs to pick up loose strings or halters in the pen. You offer to help her so that she can learn how to do it properly. You tell her that you will help her for a week but after that she will need to do it. o You clean the pen for her and water the animal for her. You do not think she will do it anyway.o You tell your friend that you are going to tell her leader and parent’s on her. You are going to tell them that she does not take proper care of her animal and should not be able to have one.

Submit

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Animal Facilities

Choose one:

o You ignore it. It is not your animal anyway.o You tell her that she should give her animal fresh water everyday, that she needs to make sure that her pen is clean and that she needs to pick up loose strings or halters in the pen. You offer to help her so that she can learn how to do it properly. You tell her that you will help her for a week but after that she will need to do it. o You clean the pen for her and water the animal for her. You do not think she will do it anyway.o You tell your friend that you are going to tell her leader and parent’s on her. You are going to tell them that she does not take proper care of her animal and should not be able to have one.

The percentage of corn grown in United States eaten by livestock is 80%.

Did you know…

Animal Facilities:

FUN FACT

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Summary• Quality Counts is a tool to teach youth

about livestock projects.

• We want to ensure every youth has the opportunity and access to the program.

THANKSTHANKS for helping to make Quality Quality CountsCounts one of the most widely taught programs in Texas FFA and 4-H.