3. Livestock Clubs - Sheep Lease

Membership Cost: $350.00 every 6 months for 1 year (Cost of lease/payments options available)

AGES: 8+

• Meeting Dates: 2nd Tuesday or Every Month 6:00-7:00pm

• You'll receive 10% Off ANY classes & merchandise offered by The Giggling Life for that current 4-H year AND you will be given priority registration to ALL Programs & merchandise offered here at GL, and MORE!

• Mandatory- You must visit your animal 2 days per month to work with & care for your leased animal. You may do so by attending ANY Educational Program offered by The Giggling Life. You MUST be enrolled into one Giggling Life Program monthly to participate in Livestock Clubs. It may be monthly GL Program or you may choose to DROP IN to any listed monthly GL Program on the schedule.

How this works:

Participants use an animal that GL owns to participate in fairs & shows.

• Additional 4-H requirements (meat quality assurance and record book)

• Lease Payment above pays for feed/supplements/tack and supplies for youth to be able to use to participate in shows and fairs.​
   

Regular Activities:

Raise and care for Sheep in Boots & Buckles year long Livestock Club. Participants will work together to learn hands-on about feeding, nutrition, record keeping, general animal care, maintaining shelters, exercise, and more. Livestock Members will learn so much about what happens when raising animals for multiple purposes!

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Members who are leasing animal to show at the Adams County Fair must meet at least twice a month! Preferably once a week! Why?

• This is when the majority of the husbandry is done by the participants- including cleaning pens and water tanks, checking hay and feeding grain and minerals, handling the sheep, chickens, and rabbits.

• We also take much needed time to educate members about their feed, nutrition, disease, costs involved, breeding, how to groom, show, weight management, ear tags, worming animals, vaccinations, shearing, bathing, other grooming, and so much more!

Annual Events:

This year the Livestock Members will have the opportunity to participate in 1 event, the Adams County Fair. (Next year we will be able to show throughout the year at the The National Western Stock Show in January and most likely the Estes Wool Fest in June.)

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Each event has a different focus and gives participants opportunities to practice and demonstrate specific skills they learned at Boots & Buckles (DBA The Giggling Life). We are excited to be able to do different events in the future!

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The National Western Stock Show focuses on breeding high-quality animals, the Estes Wool Fest focuses on wool production and the Adams County Fair focuses on meat production, showmanship and record keeping. Each event also provides the animals an opportunity to be shown by the participants and to compete against one another and other animals.

During each event sheep and goat participants develop their public speaking skills as they interact with judges and be tested on their animal husbandry knowledge. A 4-H membership is required for Adams County Fair Participation, this is completed externally of Boots & Buckles.

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Note: Participants are only permitted to enroll in a Market Project (i.e. husbandry for meat production) after 1 year of Livestock Club participation. This is required so that the youth can observe and understand the process start-to-finish first.

Market projects include purchasing, owning, and boarding an animal at Boots & Buckles (DBA The Giggling Life), along with additional farm chores without staff supervision but with parental supervision. Additional cost are associated with market projects (i.e. purchase of animal, additional feed, etc). First year participants are permitted to participate in other projects and showing animals for other purposes.