Skillathon Information- 

Delaware County Fair Skillathons have been unified on the subjects that each station will cover. Use your resource book, the learning lab kits, and the additional resources below to help you study. Each skillathon will have 4 stations and each station will be worth 25 points.

Please make entries for skillathon when completing your fair entries and sign up for a time slot. 

Time slot sign-ups- https://go.osu.edu/dcjfskillathons 

2024 Station Topics

• Station 1 - Quality Assurance (for beef, dairy, goats, pigs, lambs, poultry, and rabbits) or Safety (Dog, horse, and Alpaca)
• Station 2 - Breeds
• Station 3 - End Products (Dogs and Horses TBA)
• Station 4 - Health 

Additional resources

Quality Assurance 

• 2024 QA summary 

Dairy

• Chapters 8 and 9 from https://www.youth.dasc.vt.edu/content/dam/youth_dasc_vt_edu/quiz-bowl/2024VADQBmaterials.pdf and https://www.drink-milk.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/DefiningDairy-Cheese-Letter.pdf
• https://www.holsteinfoundation.org/pdf_doc/workbooks/Pedigree_Workbook.pdf 

Rabbit

• ARBA Website   https://arba.net/

Dog

• AKC website   https://www.akc.org/ 

Poultry

•  http://www.geauga4h.org/poultry/
• https://morrow.osu.edu/sites/morrow/files/imce/Poultry%20Handbook%20Resource%20Morrow.pdf

Horse

• Horse Skillathon Kits are available at the county Extension office or diagram reference material from Skillathon is online at

  https://celake.ucanr.edu/4-H_Program/Animal_Science_Resource_Information/

  Equipstep

• Cir: 191R Horse Safety & You

  Cir: 174 Beginning Horse Management

  Cir: 175 Light Horse Selection

 

2023 Stations 

• Station 1 will be Quality Assurance (for beef, dairy, goats, pigs, lambs, poultry, and rabbits) or Safety (Dog, horse, and Alpaca)
• Station 2 will be parts
• Station 3 will be Nutrition
• Station 4 will be Equipment