Author: Mary Jane Little
Planning Unit: Animal and Food Sciences
Major Program: Equine
Outcome: Intermediate Outcome
This year I was invited to teach at multiple 4-H horse camps and field days. These horse camps and field days were held in Bowling Green, Liberty, and Winchester. I spoke on 4-H Horse Programmatic updates, distributed equine safety publications, answered questions regarding upcoming events, taught lessons on water and karst and how they correlate to making Kentucky the "Horse Capitol of the World", ran mock hippology stations, and administered horse judging practice. Over the course of these camps and field days this season the Kentucky 4-H Horse Program impacted 1,022 youth and volunteers. A verbal evaluation was given at the end of each session, and from those results we determined that 89% of youth claimed to have learned something new and 98% of participants indicated they found the content engaging, relevant, and overall satisfied with the session.
At the end of the camps and field days, I asked participants if they would be interested in showing their horse at the Kentucky State Fair 4-H Horse Show and/or participating at the Kentucky 4-H State Horse Judging and Horse Contests. The number of declared horses for the horse show has increased by over 100 this year.
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