2010 4-H/FFA Youth Fair Round Robin Questions
Round Robin Goat Questions
Dairy Goat
1. What breed of dairy goat you are handling?
2. What is the general purpose of a dairy goat?
3. Where is the front cannon located?
4. What age should have freshened by?
5. Where are the withers located?
6. Where is the muzzle located?
7. Name three products are made with goat’s milk?
8. Name 2 dairy goat breeds besides the one you are handling?
9. What is the type of goat is this? Pygmy, Boer, Dairy
10. How many times a day does a dairy goat need to be milked?
Pygmy Goat
1. What color of pygmy are you handling?
2. What is the general purpose of a pygmy goat today?
3. Where is the pasturen located?
4. Where is the heart girth located?
5. Where is the crown located?
6. What do we use to trim hooves with?
7. Where did pygmy goats originate from?
8. What is the common number of kids can a doe have?
9. Would you need a milking pail for a pygmy goat?
10. In our county youth fair are pygmy goats allowed to show with horns?
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Meat Goat
1. What breed of meat goat are you handling?
2. What is the general purpose of boer goats?
3. Where is the loin located?
4. Where is the rump located?
5. Where is the back located?
6. What do you use to treat lice with?
7. Where did boer goats originate from?
8. What is an intact male called?
9. Name a cut a meat from a boer goat.
10. In our county youth fair what is the minimum weight for a market goat?
Dog Round Robin Questions
1. Name five ways dogs serve people:
2. Name the seven groups of dogs recognized by the American Kennel Club and name a
breed from each group.
3. Learn, correctly spell, and define the terms “purebred,” “registered,” “crossbred,” and
“mongrel.”
4. Why does a dog have or not have a tail? What is it used for?
5. Name three safety practices in caring for a dog.
6. Locate and identify the hock, loin, shoulder, and muzzle.
7. Explain the term “gestation.”
8. Name Internal and External parasites that are common in dogs:
9. Name four (out of eight) classifications that you may show as a 4-H dog member.
10. Basic Dog Showmanship scoring: as a handler in order to receive a perfect score of 25
points, what is the judge looking to judge you on? Please list all of them.
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Horse Round Robin Questions
Juniors:
1. Name three aids used in riding.
2. Name two kinds of good horse hay.
3. Locate and spell this part of the horse: withers
4. Locate and spell this part of the horse: fetlock
5. Locate and spell this part of the horse: pastern
6. Locate and spell this part of the horse: hock
7. Locate and spell this part of the horse: knee
8. Locate and spell this part of the horse: flank
9. Locate and spell this part of the horse: heart girth
10. Locate and spell this part of the horse: forearm
Intermediates and Seniors:
1. What is a "filly"?
2. Name two kinds of bits used by horsemen.
3. Spell the name and show where this unsoundness would be located: ring bone
4. Spell the name and show where this unsoundness would be located: curb
5. Spell the name and show where this unsoundness would be located: thorough pin
6. Spell the name and show where this unsoundness would be located: splint
7. Spell the name and show where this unsoundness would be located: side bone
8. What is meant by a "hand"?
9. What is meant by "sire" and "dam"?
10. What is meant by "conformation"?
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Rabbit Round Robin Questions
1. What are sore hocks and how would you cure them?
2. How can you tell if a doe is pregnant and when should you check?
3. What is the gestation period of a rabbit?
4. Why do you take the doe to the buck instead of putting the buck in with the doe when
breeding?
5. What is it called when a rabbit has babies?
6. What are the snuffles? How would you treat them?
7. What is the scientific name for the snuffles?
8. What is malocclusion?
9. What is coccideiosis?
10. What the difference between a rabbit and a hare?
Cavies Round Robin Questions
1. Name 7 breeds of cavies?
2. What is a baby cavy called?
3. Name the rosette breeds of cavies?
4. How long is a sows estrous cycle?
5. What is pregnancy toxemia?
6. How many toes are on the hind foot of a cavy?
7. Name two external parasites that infect cavies?
8. Name the cavy fur types?
9. What is the ideal body type for a cavy?
10. Where did cavies originally come from?
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Chickens Round Robin Questions
1. Name three breed of turkeys.
2. What is the uropyglal gland?
3. What is the age of a pullet that is used for production? For exhibition?
4. How many varieties of fowl exist?
5. Name three undesirable characteristics in fowl.
6. What is the difference between the number of days of incubation required for a
Muscoy egg and the number of days of incubation for other races of ducks?
7. What does “fitting” mean in relation to showing poultry?
8. Where is the location on a fowl that is most likely to harbor lice and mites if the bird
is infested?
9. There are seven different feathers on a fowl wing. Name five of the feather types.
10. What is a cockerel?
Pigeons Round Robin Questions
1. How many eggs does a hen lay per nesting?
2. How many days is the incubation period for the eggs?
3. What are the newly hatched babies called?
4. How often should the lofts and nest boxes be cleaned?
5. At what age should young birds be banded?
6. Does the band go on the right or left leg?
7. Name the three classes that pigeons may be grouped.
8. How many different breeds and varieties of domestic pigeons are there?
9. What determines the breed in a pigeon?
10. What determines the variety?
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Cattle Round Robin Questions
1. How many stomachs does a cow have?
2. What's the hock?
3. Where are the hooks and pins?
4. Is your animal polled or horned?
5. Where is the switch?
6. How many hours apart should you feed your animal for optimum growth?
7. What does "homozygous" mean?
8. How do you figure out the rate of gain?
9. What % of the steer's body weight should the animal be eating daily?
10. Explain how you determine frame score of your animal?
Dairy Cattle Questions
1. Name four breeds of dairy cattle.
2. What is mastitis? How do you recognize it and treat it?
3. Name the 4 compartments of the stomach?
4. What is the average age to breed a dairy heifer?
5. In a commercial dairy how is the milk measured?
6. Please Locate the hooks on the animal.
7. What breed of dairy cow are you handling today?
8. What is a dry cow?
9. Locate the poll
10. How much milk per day, on average, does a dairy cow produce?
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Sheep Round Robin Questions
All questions should be able to be found in the 4-H Sheep Reference Book.
1. What is a wether?
2. Name 2 meat breeds and 2 wool breeds of sheep?
3. Where is the rack on a lamb?
4. What is the most desirable amount of back fat on a lamb?
5. What does docking refer to?
6. What is Club Lamb Fungus, and why is it a concern for Jr. Exhibitors?
7. What is felting and in what category of sheep does it arise?
8. What is bracing, and when and why would you brace a lamb?
9. What does luster refer to?
10. What is a normal temperature range for a mature ewe?
Swine Round Robin Questions
1. What area of the swine body does bacon come from?
2. Where is the Fore rib area on a swine?
3. How much water will a 200 lb. pig consume daily?
4. How long is a swine gestation period?
5. Where is the Pastern located on a swine?
6. Where does the Picnic Ham come from?
7. What is the main ingredient in the feed you are giving your pig?
8. Which ear notch shows the litter mark?
9. What age are baby pigs weaned from the sow?
10. What is the percentage of minerals in your pig feed, and is it enough?
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