An excellent project for beginning 4-H beef members. Topics include selection, feeding, diseases, handling facilities and safety. Members may have a steer or heifer as their project animal. Record keeping is an important aspect of all beef projects. This project is for older 4-H beef members and is designed to be taken over several years.
Members choose a market animal for their project.
The animal may be shown or rail-graded. Members choose a heifer or continuation heifer as their project animal. For senior members who have completed the Beef Heifer. This project provides information on maintaining a breeding herd. The project animal can be a heifer or a continuation heifer.